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[LONDON/DOUALA/LAGOS] Vaccine developers must share the know-how behind a groundbreaking new malaria jab so it can be rolled out efficiently to poor populations in Africa that need it most, according to a senior malaria advisor to the continent’s main healthcare agency. “We need to start having this conversation around tech transfer and IP,” said Nicaise Ndembi, advisor to the director general of Africa CDC, based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. “All these pharmaceutical companies are not based in Africa and the problem is in Africa.” In 2021, 619,000 people died from malaria, 96 per cent of them in the Africa region,…

Braverman was sacked by Sunak as Home Secretary only yesterday, November 13. A No 10 source said the Prime Minister “asked Suella Braverman to leave Government and she has accepted”. Ms Braverman’s position had come under increasing scrutiny following an article she wrote in the Times, published last Thursday. In the article, Ms Braverman criticised what she called “pro-Palestinian mobs”, and said protest scenes were “disturbingly reminiscent” of those seen in Northern Ireland. Mr Sunak then began a cabinet reshuffle which “strengthens his team in Government to deliver long-term decisions for a brighter future”.  My letter to the Prime Minister pic.twitter.com/7OBzaZnxr2 — Suella…

Location : The M27 eastbound at junction J12 . Reason : Congestion. Status : Currently Active. Return To Normal : Normal traffic conditions are expected between 17:45 and 18:00 on 14 November 2023. Delay : There are currently delays of 10 minutes against expected traffic. Source link

Image Credit: Shutterstock Gone but not forgotten. Matthew Perry’s friends and former co-stars released heartfelt messages about the actor after his tragic death at age 54 on October 28. The actor was found dead in a jacuzzi at his Los Angeles area home after his assistant returned from running an errand, according to TMZ. His official cause of death is still pending. Matthew was best known for his role as Chandler Bing on Friends, which ran from 1994 to 2004. The ensemble cast, which included Courteney Cox, Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, and Matt LeBlanc, was one of the…

Welcome to the future, where your car is a computer and a “fat finger” can grind your tunes to a halt. On Monday, Rivian put out — then abruptly cancelled — an over-the-air software update that promised bugfixes and improvements to a feature called proximity locking. Instead, the update screwed up some Rivain R1T and R1S infotainment systems. “This is on us – we messed up,” Rivian told drivers. The company blamed “a fat finger where the wrong build with the wrong security certificates was sent out.” Rivian said it cancelled the update, and that its service staff will reach…

Kent County Council has been given £50 million to fix the roads Source link

Disney has created a nonfungible tokens (NFT) platform together with blockchain and metaverse firm Dapper Labs.According to the November 14 announcement, Disney will tokenize its iconic cartoon characters from the past century onto its NFT marketplace dubbed “Disney Pinnacle.” The platform will also include icons from Pixar as well as heroes and villains from the Star Wars galaxy, uniquely styled as collectible and tradable digital pins. “Fans anywhere will be able to collect dynamic pins on their phone and trade instantly and securely with each other no matter where they are in the world,” Dapper Labs’ CEO Roham Gharegozlou explained. The…

The Rio Madre de Dios basin was an ideal location to study how the Earth cycles fossil carbon. Credit: Mark Torres/Rice University As the primary element of life on our planet, carbon is constantly journeying from living creatures down into the Earth’s crust and back up into the atmosphere, but until recently, quantifying this journey was virtually impossible. To help unravel the mystery of how the Earth cycles fossil carbon, Rice University’s Mark Torres and collaborators studied the chemistry of a river system extending from the Peruvian Andes to the Amazon floodplains. Together with collaborators from five other institutions, Torres…

Live updates as police attend a fire in Coldean, Brighton. Source link [Featured] [Just In]

Location : The M11 southbound between junctions J6 and J5 . Reason : Congestion. Status : Currently Active. Return To Normal : Normal traffic conditions are expected between 15:30 and 15:45 on 14 November 2023. Delay : There are currently delays of 20 minutes against expected traffic. Source link