(2022-05-01). Mayo Clinic Minute: How a Southern diet is connected to chronic diseases. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Warmer weather brings more opportunities for picnics, barbecues and gatherings around food. But before you reach for a second helping, consider if what you're eating may be increasing your risk for chronic disease. In a traditional Southern diet — highlighted by fried foods, organ meats, processed meats, eggs and egg dishes, sugar-sweetened beverages, and bread — the prevalence of high blood pressure in the African American population is higher according to Dr. Ivan Porter II, a nephrologist at Mayo…
(2022-05-01). Mayo Clinic Q and A: Transplant and people of color. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My wife is African American, and we just learned that she is going to need a kidney transplant. I heard that most of the people on the waitlist are people of color, and I'm wondering whether people from diverse racial or ethnic backgrounds end up having to wait longer for a transplant? ANSWER: It is true that most people on the waitlist for a lifesaving organ are people of color. Of the more than…
(2022-05-01). WorkWeek 4-28-22 Protest At AFL-CIO On Gov Funding & El Golpe,US Labor, the CIA, & Coup. indybay.org WorkWeek covers the collaboration of the AFL-CIO with the CIA and National Endowment For Democracy NED in the attacks on trade unionists at the Mexico City Ford assembly plant and also against South African BTR workers who were on strike. The AFL-CIO gave millions to Zulu Chief Buthelezi who then organized thugs to attack and murder union strikers and their families.
(2022-05-01). Blast hits gas pipeline in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 01 (MNA) — Egyptian officials told local sources on late Saturday that an explosion occurred in a gas pipeline in Bir El Abd town located in the Sinai Peninsula.
(2022-05-01). Notes from Wartorn Ethiopia, Part III: Crimes of the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front. orinocotribune.com By Ann Garrison — Apr 27, 2022 | The discovery of mass graves and underground prisons in Ethiopia has exposed the crimes of the Tigray Peoples' Liberation Front or TPLF, the U.S. puppets who tyrannized Ethiopia for 27 years with divide-and-conquer ethnic politics from 1991 to 2018, when a popular uprising forced them from power. The TPLF then retreated to Tigray Region and, in November 2020, started the ongoing civil war by attacking the national army's Northern Command. | US officialdom and both state and corporate media in the US have since described the Ethiopian conflict as the government's persecution o…
(2022-05-01). Iran FM congratulates Togo independence anniversary. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 01 (MNA) — The Iranian foreign minister in a message on Sunday offered congratulations to the Togolese government and people on the 62nd anniversary of the country's independence.
(2022-04-30). NATO holds exercise with partners from three continents, including Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATOSupreme Headquarters Allied Powers EuropeApril 29, 2022 Exercise STEADFAST COBALT 2022 STEADFAST COBALT 2022: This year 15 NATO Command Structure and 14 NATO Force Structure units participate in the exercise. Presently the NAC approved 9 countries to be involved as observers from Algeria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Finland, Georgia, Jordan, Mongolia, Sweden and Ukraine.
(2022-04-30). [Editorial] Offshoring the asylum process: a dangerous move for health. thelancet.com Despite widespread condemnation of the UK's asylum partnership arrangement with Rwanda, the Home Office appears to be going ahead with its plans to relocate to east Africa people who it deems to have arrived illegally and who are therefore not eligible for asylum in the UK. The policy, formed in response to increasing arrivals of migrants in small boats (28‚Äà500 arrived to the UK in 2021), has been hailed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson as the "morally right thing to do", and is designed to deter refugees from entering the country through "illegal, dangerous or unnecessary methods".
(2022-04-30). [World Report] Africa CDC warns COVID-19 vaccine production could cease. thelancet.com A lack of demand could jeopardise manufacturing of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in South Africa. Paul Adepoju reports.
(2022-04-30). U.S says TPLF still occupy areas in Afar. plusnews.ug 
The U.S Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken has reaffirmed a revelation by the government of Ethiopia that fighters of terrorist designated group, TPLF still occupy some areas in Afar and Amhara regions. On Tuesday, the rebels based in the Northern part of the country announced that they had withdrawn from Afar in respect of the …
(2022-04-30). Ethiopian terrorist group TPLF planning another war on civilians. plusnews.ug The terrorist TPLF is mobilizing a massive number of fighters to areas adjacent to the Amhara and Afar regions to wage another devastating war, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said. Briefing the press, Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Dina Mufti recalled that TPLF had written an open letter to the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on April 21, …
(2022-04-30). [Perspectives] Karim Manji: architect of progress in Tanzanian newborn health. thelancet.com When Karim Manji trained in child health three decades ago, there were only 11 paediatricians in his native Tanzania. Today there are about 220, evidence of the progress in child health that characterises his career. As Professor in Paediatrics and Child Health at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, Manji is as focused on clinical care as he is in overseeing the multicentre international research programmes that are contributing to the transformation of newborn and child health in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs).
(2022-04-30). Baba TV, URA hold Tax Baraza on business tax obligations for SMEs. plusnews.ug 
Busoga Kingdom Television Station, Baba TV and Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) have Saturday held a Tax Baraza at the Source of the Nile Hotel in Jinja, Eastern Uganda. Moderated by Senior Journalist, Samuel Mwesigwa, the Baraza which centred on business tax obligations for SMEs, saw different tax experts including Robert Wamala Lumanyika the Ag Manager …
