Kenya donates Sh500m to Global Fund

                                          
Kenya have announced that it will donate of $5 million (Sh500 million) to the Global Fund Against Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria making it one of the highest contributors from Africa.

The announcement was made by Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed who spoke on behalf of President Uhuru Kenyatta at the Global Fund Replenishment conference in Montreal, Canada.

“The Global Fund has played a major role in supporting Kenya’s success in combating HIV/Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria over the years,” said Ms Mohamed.

The donation by the government is part of the concept of ‘giving to receive’ in which countries that benefit from the global fund also make contributions. In the next three years, Kenya is expected to receive more than Sh34 billion from the Global Fund.

In the statement, the President said the Global Fund had made a huge difference in saving the life of millions of people all over the world.

Kenya runs the seventh largest Global Fund portfolio and its donation is part of its commitment to ensure the fund achieves the goal of combating the three diseases.

The fund aims to ensure Aids, TB and malaria will no longer be a public health threat by 2030 .

Donald Trump begins another round of Violence Against Hillary Clinton

                              
 Donald Trump mixed policy with intimations of violence in Miami, reversing his position on re-engaging with Cuba and pushing for Hillary Clinton's security to disarm because of her proposed firearm reforms.
Trump represented Clinton's position on gun rights as wanting to "destroy your Second Amendment" and said that her bodyguards should no longer carry firearms in light of her policy stance, which includes expanded background checks for gun sales.
"She doesn't want guns, take their — let's see what happens to her," Trump said. "Take their guns away, okay? It'll be very dangerous."
Trump's comments were slammed by Clinton's campaign on Friday night:
"Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for President, has a pattern of inciting people to violence. Whether this is done to provoke protesters at a rally or casually or even as a joke, it is an unacceptable quality in anyone seeking the job of Commander in Chief," Clinton's campaign manager, Robby Mook, wrote in a release.
"This kind of talk should be out of bounds for a presidential candidate, just like it should be out of bounds for a presidential candidate to peddle a conspiracy theory about the President of the United States for five years," Mook added.

BREAKING NEWS:Buhari apologizes for stealing Obama's speech

                                          
Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, has apologized for plagiarizing President Barack Obama’s 2008 victory speech and says he will punish those responsible. The two leaders are set to meet next week in New York.
In a Friday column for ThisDay newspaper, Adeola Akinremi denounced “the moral problem of plagiarism on a day Mr President launched a campaign to demand honesty and integrity”.
In a speech given by Buhari on 8 September, launching a campaign entitled “Change Begins With Me”, several sentences were almost identical to Obama’s.
Buhari said: “We must resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship, pettiness and immaturity that have poisoned our country for so long.”
Eight years ago, after his victory over Republican John McCain in the race for the White House, Obama said: “Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.”
Alleged plagiarism of an Obama speech became an issue in the US earlier this year, when portions of an address to the Republican convention by Melania Trump, wife of presidential candidate Donald Trump, appeared strikingly similar to passages in a speech given by Michelle Obama, President Obama’s wife, at the 2008 Democratic convention.
On Friday, the White House said Obama has scheduled a meeting with Buhari on Tuesday on the sidelines of the United Nations general assembly session in New York City.
They are expected to talk about continued US support for security and economic changes in Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy and most populous country, as well the government’s efforts to counter the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram.
The White House also said Obama, in his final appearance before the UN session, plans to promote trade between the US and Africa on Wednesday, attending a summit with some 200 US and African chief executives and African heads of state.

Source: The Guardian

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BREAKING:Chikungunya outbreak hits India

                                       
 India's capital Delhi is battling one of its worst outbreaks of the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus
More than 1,000 cases of the illness have been registered in the city.
Local media have reported that 10 people in the city have also died of chikungunya-related complications, although this is yet to be officially confirmed. The illness is largely non-lethal although the WHO says that in older people it can contribute to the cause of death.
India's health minister JP Nadda told reporters that the government was investigating to see if the virus could be linked to the deaths, as many of those who died were already suffering from other illnesses such as kidney disease and high blood pressure.
The larger problem, however, seems to be the effect the debilitating nature of the virus is having on the population of the city.