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Vaccine-preventable illness outbreaks on the upward thrust in Africa

Vaccine-preventable illness outbreaks on the upward thrust in Africa

Brazzaville – Africa is witnessing a surge in outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases over the past year. Almost 17 500 cases of measles were recorded in the African region between January and March 2022, marking a…

WHO Tanzania launches its third Country Cooperation Map

WHO Tanzania launches its third Country Cooperation Map

Dar es Salaam, 27 April 2022 – The World Health Organization (WHO) Tanzania Country Office launched the third WHO Country Cooperation Strategy (CCS). The strategy launched provides a roadmap for WHO support to the United…

Building Security Bill: how this might maybe more than likely well also simply affect the improvement sector

Building Security Bill: how this might maybe more than likely well also simply affect the improvement sector

Running to a full 262 pages and packing in safeguards for leaseholders that were unthinkable a little over a year ago, the government’s new Building Safety Bill is finally being passed into law today. This…

Four in five minute builders will expand costs this spring

Four in five minute builders will expand costs this spring

Four in five small construction companies have put their prices up this year – and many expect to do so again before the summer. A poll by the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) found that…

Balfour blames ‘exterior factors’ for prolong to Aberdeen regen

Balfour blames ‘exterior factors’ for prolong to Aberdeen regen

Balfour Beatty has blamed supply chain issues and the pandemic for a delay to its £25.7m refurbishment work at a Victorian park in Aberdeen. The contractor was due to complete a section of the Union…

Caledonian Modular’s losses and money owed printed

Caledonian Modular’s losses and money owed printed

Failed contractor Caledonian Modular made losses of more than £20m in just 18 months, it has emerged. A document filed with Companies House this week revealed that the offsite construction specialist was £11.2m in the…

Song employee struck by London Underground put collectively

Song employee struck by London Underground put collectively

A track worker was hospitalised earlier this month after being struck by a London Underground train, it has been confirmed. The worker sustained non-life-threatening injuries as a result of the collision, which took place near…

Over 1.8 million kids gain treatment for bilharzia and intestinal worms

At least 1.8 million received free oral treatment for schistosomiasis (bilharzia) and soil transmitted helminthiases (intestinal worms) during a mass treatment exercise conducted from 3-9 April 2022.  Bilharzia and intestinal worms are two of the…

👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Day to day – The foremost African country to adopt bitcoin

👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Day to day – The foremost African country to adopt bitcoin

28 APRIL, 2022 IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Happy pre-Friday 👋🏿 YouTube is bringing more things for you to skip. It’s testing ads on its short-form feature, Shorts.  While ads have existed on YouTube since 2007, Shorts—which…

Philippines’ Longest Cable-Stayed Bridge Inaugurated

Philippines’ Longest Cable-Stayed Bridge Inaugurated

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Caterpillar tag leads Ritchie Bros. gross sales in April Market Trends Account

Caterpillar tag leads Ritchie Bros. gross sales in April Market Trends Account

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Look: Snowboarder spends 12 hours on Maine slopes to interrupt world file

Look: Snowboarder spends 12 hours on Maine slopes to interrupt world file

April 27 (UPI) -- A snowboarder broke a Guinness World Record when he spent 12 hours on the slopes in Maine and traversed nearly 100,000 vertical feet. Myles Silverman made 56 runs on Sugarloaf Mountain's…