EAA, Gavi Launch 2 Education and Immunisation Projects in Africa
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BUSINESS | Page 1 SPORT | Page 4 Qatar Insurance Football: Teary Company’s H1 net Messi exits profi t jumps 277% Barcelona, in to QR351mn talks with PSG published in QATAR since 1978 MONDAY Vol. XXXXII No. 12000 August 9, 2021 Muharram 1, 1443 AH GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals Amir, Deputy Amir Qatari rescue team leaves for Greece send new Hijri year greetings to leaders EAA, Gavi launch His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani yesterday exchanged cables of 2 education and congratulations with leaders of fraternal Arab and Muslim countries on the occasion of the new Hijri year. His Highness the Deputy immunisation Amir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad al-Thani also exchanged new Hijri year congratulations with crown princes and deputy heads of state projects in Africa of the Arab and Islamic countries. HE the Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdulaziz al-Thani exchanged ducation Above All Foundation similar cables of congratulations (EAA) and Gavi, the Vaccine Al- with prime ministers of the fraternal Eliance, have extended their part- Arab and Islamic countries. (QNA) nership to launch integrated immuni- sation projects in Ethiopia and Kenya, Qatar condemns supported by Qatar Fund For Develop- ment (QFFD). attack in Chad In conjunction with EAA’s Educate Qatar expressed its strong A Child (EAC) programme and its on- condemnation of the attack that going education project with Save the targeted a patrol near Lake Chad in Children Korea (SCK), the initiative in the west of the country, which led to In Implementation of the directives of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, an equipped team from Ethiopia aims to support the country’s the deaths and injuries of soldiers. In the Qatar International Search and Rescue Group of the Internal Security Force (Lekhwiya) and a team from the Civil overarching target of 90% immunisa- a statement yesterday, the Ministry Defence of the Ministry of Interior headed yesterday to participate in search and rescue operations in Greece that has tion coverage at the national level and of Foreign Aff airs reiterated Qatar’s been badly hit by wildfires. Page 11 at least 80% in each of the 11 targeted firm position on rejecting violence districts in the host community and and terrorism, regardless of the three refugee camps in the Gambella motives and reasons. The ministry Regional State of Ethiopia. It aims to expressed Qatar’s condolences increase uptake of human papilloma- and that girls receive the HPV vaccine to the families of the victims and virus (HPV) vaccination amongst girls when they reach 10 years of age. The to the government and people of aged 14 and child vaccination amongst education project will benefi t from the Chad, wishing the injured a speedy Evacuations, despair as fi res children under one-year-old, reaching network of community health volun- recovery. (QNA) 108,183 children with immunisations teers and facility-based health work- and 995 adults, who will receive related ers to advocate for school enrolment, Beirut blast bereaved training over a period of 12 months. while the immunisation programme in hold symbolic funeral ravage Greek island Evia Meanwhile, the immunisation the targeted counties will benefi t from project in Kenya, which intersects with the network of schools and teachers to Lebanese protesters carried EAA’s ongoing education project with reach communities with messages on imitation coffins in a symbolic AFP cult evening, another diffi cult night,” heatwave in decades, which experts Unicef, will be implemented in 16 arid cervical cancer and HPV vaccine. funeral procession from Beirut Gouves, Greece civil protection deputy minister have linked to climate change. and semi-arid land (ASAL) counties in Both projects come as an extension port yesterday to demand justice, Nikos Hardalias said. So far, the fi res have killed two peo- three zonal areas of Garissa, Kisumu of EAA and Gavi’s partnership aimed days after the first anniversary of a “On Evia we have two major fi re ple in Greece and eight in neighbouring and Lodwar as well as urban informal at supporting health, development and vast dockside explosion that killed irefi ghters and desperate locals fronts, one in the north and one in the Turkey, with dozens more hospitalised. settlements in Nairobi with high num- education access in some of the world’s more than 200 people. Families of yesterday battled raging wild- south,” Hardalias said, adding that While rain brought some respite bers of out of school children. Over most marginalised communities. the victims were joined by dozens Ffi res on the Greek island of Evia strong winds were pushing the north- from the blazes in Turkey over the the next two years, the project aims Khalifa Jassim al-Kuwari, director of supporters, some wearing black that have charred vast areas of pine ern fi re front towards beach villages. weekend, Greece continues to endure to reach 257,400 girls who are both in general QFFD, said: “ We are pleased and carrying burning torches, at forest and forced hundreds of people Greece and Turkey have been bat- soaring temperatures. school and out of school in Kenya. that the recent contribution by Qatar an entrance to the port where to fl ee their homes. tling devastating fi res for nearly two In all, 17 fi refi ghting aircraft — Unicef’s immunisation and educa- Fund to Gavi has paved the way for a a warehouse fire on August 4 “We have ahead of us another diffi - weeks as the region suff ered its worst planes and helicopters — were fi ght- tion projects will work closely together new strategic partnership between our last year ignited a vast stash of ing the fi res on Evia, Greece’s second to ensure that communities are mo- long-lasting strategic partners Educa- ammonium nitrate, causing one largest island, Hardalias said. bilised to increase school enrolment tion Above All and Gavi”. To Page 12 of the biggest peacetime blasts in Evia lies just northeast of the capi- history. Wives, sisters and mothers tal Athens. To the southwest is the of those killed held portraits of their Peloponnese region where Hardalias loved ones and marched ahead of said the situation was stable. Fires three symbolic coffins covered in in a northern suburb of Athens have flowers. subsided, he added. “The situation in Attica (which encompasses Athens) is Smoke from landfi ll fi re better but we are afraid of the danger of fl are-ups,” Hardalias said. engulfs Belgrade Late yesterday, a Pezetel fi refi ght- Acrid smoke and haze engulfed ing aircraft crashed at Zakynthos is- Serbia’s capital Belgrade yesterday land in western Greece. The pilot is after a fire broke out at the safe and sound, the ANA news agency city’s main garbage landfill site. reported. Authorities prompted people The rugged landscape and dense to stay indoors as firefighters pine forests on Evia that so appeal to struggled to extinguish flames at tourists are a nightmare for fi refi ght- the Vinca landfill, located around A local resident uses a megaphone as others observe a large forest fire ers. The inferno has destroyed homes 17km from downtown Belgrade approaching the village of Pefki on Evia (Euboea) island, Greece’s second and reduced thousands of hectares of EAA launches projects in Ethiopia and Kenya, supported by Qatar Fund For near the Danube river. Much of the largest island, yesterday. land to ash. Page 11 Development (QFFD). fire was doused by late yesterday but authorities said the site will continue to smoulder in the coming days. Belgrade’s mayor, Zoran Radojcic, warned people to close windows and stay indoors if they smell the smoke. Taliban seize 3 more state capitals in northern blitz Senate trudges toward AFP tured the capital of Kunduz,” the Tali- ternoon, after the government failed to Kunduz ban said in a statement. send help,” a security source told AFP. passing $1tn US bill “The mujahideen also captured Sar- “The city is unfortunately fully in The US Senate moved slowly e-Pul city, the government buildings Taliban hands.” yesterday toward passing a $1 trillion he Taliban tightened the noose and all the installations there.” Kunduz is the most signifi cant Taliban bipartisan infrastructure bill, held around northern Afghanistan The insurgents said on Twitter that gain since the insurgents launched an back by one Republican lawmaker Tyesterday, capturing three more they had also taken Taloqan, the capi- off ensive in May as foreign forces began who opposed speeding up a vote on provincial capitals as they take their tal of Takhar province. the fi nal stages of their withdrawal. the nation’s biggest investment in fi ght to the cities after seizing much of Parwina Azimi, a women’s rights ac- It has been a perennial target for the roads and bridges in decades. The the countryside in recent months. tivist in Sar-e-Pul, told AFP by phone Taliban, who briefl y overran the city in Senate convened at noon and was The insurgents have snatched up that government offi cials and the re- 2015 and again in 2016 but never man- expected to hold two procedural fi ve provincial capitals in Afghanistan maining forces had retreated to an aged to hold it for long. votes , unless Republicans and since Friday in a lightning off ensive army barracks about three kilometres The ministry of defence said gov- Democrats can reach an agreement that appears to have overwhelmed from the city. ernment forces were fi ghting to retake on amendments to the package government forces. The Taliban had the compound key installations.