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[MAP] Rabat -- The security and stability challenges facing Africa, and which manifest themselves in the multiplication of conflicts and crises, require a synergy of efforts and a concerted and united response from all, underlined, Sunday in Rabat, Minister Delegate to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Abroad, Mohcine Jazouli.
The president also stressed the importance of keeping the economy open after months of stifling movement restrictions.
He urged citizens not to drop their guard and continue adhering to the health rules, such as wearing face masks and respecting curfew times.
South Africa has recorded just over 800,000 coronavirus infections - more than a third of the cases reported across the African continent - and over 20,000 deaths.
AFP
The Japanese government has provided a total of $261.6 million in grant support to Jamaica’s COVID-19 response.
At the signing ceremony today, Minister of Finance, Dr Nigel Clarke, explained that the grant will enable public health facilities across Jamaica to procure medical supplies and equipment.
Ambassador of Japan to Jamaica, Hiromasa Yamazaki, shared that both governments had discussions for a month to identify how best Japan could help strengthen Jamaica’s health system as it combats the pandemic.
“The universal goal of the government of Japan is to enable all the people in the world to enjoy greater opportunities offered by a safe and secure environment and that is why we stand together with other international development partners, and the international community at large, to work assiduously to contain the virus spread, which is not only threatening human lives but also social and economic livelihoods across geographical borders,” the ambassador said.
In her remarks, chief medical officer, Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie, expressed appreciation for the grant, which she said is timely for strengthening capacity as Jamaica relaxes COVID-19 travel explained that Jamaica is now making the transition from keeping the virus out, to learning to live with it.
The UN Security Council called Thursday for \"sustained efforts\" in preventing the illegal trade of natural resources from the DR Congo, as gold in particular fuels conflict between armed groups in the region.
UN experts who monitor implementation of the sanctions detailed multiple cases of trafficking in a recent report, stating that gold from the country was flowing into Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, the United Arab Emirates and Tanzania.
\"The group traced Congolese gold to regional refineries and other international destinations and found that some refineries acted as brokers, used cash payments, undertook refiner-to-refiner trading and used corporate networks to obscure ownership, thereby inhibiting supply chain accountability,\" the report said.
The experts added that \"in terms of natural resources, the Congolese gold sector remained vulnerable to exploitation by armed groups and criminal networks and to unregulated trading.\"
DR Congo sits on top of large reserves of cobalt, copper, gold and other valuable minerals, but is nonetheless one of the world's poorest countries, with average per capita revenue of $490, according to World Bank data.
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