GUINEA-BISSAU STOPS VACCINE STUDY FUNDED BY TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. (PHOTO).

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 Guinea-Bissau stops vaccine study funded by Trump administration Guinea-Bissau's foreign minister has said his government has stopped a study funded by the Trump administration aiming to evaluate side effects of the life-saving hepatitis B vaccine, including any links to autism. The West African country, one of the region's poorest, has high rates of hepatitis B, and the prospective study had drawn an outcry from scientists and international health bodies because only half the newborns in the trial would get the vaccine at birth. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said it was not ethical. Guinea-Bissau last month suspended the trial pending an ethical review. Critics had said it was being used to test theories linking vaccines to autism, long promoted by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr but contradicted by scientific evidence. Foreign Minister Joao Bernardo Vieira said in an interview on Tuesday that the study had been closed, citing concer...

SOUTH AFRICA RAISED CONCERNS WITH CHINA OVER IRAN’S PARTICIPATION IN NAVAL DRILLS: PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA. (PHOTO).


 South Africa raised concerns with China over Iran’s participation in naval drills: President Ramaphosa


South Africa raised concerns with China over Iran’s participation in recent Chinese-led naval exercises in its waters, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Wednesday.


“The naval exercises were led by China, and we were just the host waters,” he told reporters.


Ramaphosa said China was responsible for organizing the exercises and inviting participants, and Pretoria raised with Beijing “the issue of Iran and said that it would be best that they should withdraw and not participate.”


He said South Africa launched a board of inquiry to review the exercises after extensive consultations revealed the need for more information on what occurred and how to respond.


“It is a matter that everyone in defense and in government is seized with at the moment,” he noted, Anadolu Agency reported.


He said the government prefers to carefully examine “every aspect of everything before just blurting out and saying whatever people want to hear on the gallery.”


The naval drills came amid heightened US‑Iran tensions and international concern over widespread protests in Iran.


Last week, Washington criticized Pretoria for allowing Iranian military forces to participate in exercises, expressing concern that the move undermines regional security.


Earlier, South Africa’s Defense Ministry said it had clearly communicated Ramaphosa’s instructions regarding Iran’s participation in the exercises and had established a board of inquiry to examine whether those directives were misrepresented or ignored.

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