January 26, 2022

Scooper news published Annual Content Round-up in Kenya

NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Scooper, a news app developed by Transsion Group, joined Kenya’s media space in 2017 as an independent firm aimed at distributing impartial and current news in the country. Until now, Scooper news has an audience of over 600K Daily active users in Kenya.

The year 2021 came to an end, and Scooper news rounded up some interesting things by using its large database to analyze all the content which were published in Scooper news in the last year, making this is a must-see report for Kenyans.

1. Word of the year

The past year has had its own fair share of hard hitting headlines. Politics has been major player in the Kenyan media waves, owing to the upcoming general elections on August, 2022. That explains why the word ‘President’ topped the “Words of the Year” list. The most popular word outside politics was ‘Party’, giving the notion that Kenyans like their social events.

2. TOP 8 Celebrities

Amongst other popular celebrities was Meagan Markle, who topped the list of our ‘Top 8 Celebrities’. Other celebrities on the list were Kanye West and Princess Diana, with Diamond, Davido and Wizkid been the only celebrities from Africa.

3. Emoji of the year

The laughing emoji was also voted as the ‘Emoji of the Year’, owing to the fact that most of our content is entertaining and humorous.

4. TOP10 Writers in Kenya

Scooper spends about $100,000 on PGC writer’s annually as salary payment, and about $200,000 annually on in-house writers and media partners.

Freelancers can earn money by registering an account in Scooper news and publishing content to get income. In the last year, the TOP10 Writers in Kenya earned a total income of 1,200,000Ksh in 2021!

Also, Scooper has partnered with more than 30 top-notch media houses, and enrolled hundreds of PGC writers to ensure that its audience is always informed the latest news and so much more.

5. 5 Biggest fake news

We also had our own fair share of fake news that we averted thanks to our avid research skills and trained Journalists.

6. The Top10 Hottest news in Kenya

Based on our statistics, the Top10 news headlines in Kenya were:

TOP1: Jeff Koinange Owns Expensive Things, Check Out Some Of Them

TOP2: Ovahimba: Inside The Community That Offered S_x To Visitors And Didn’t Bath

TOP3: Age Is Just A Number! Meet Kenyan Men Celebrities Who Have Married Older Women Than Them

TOP4 : Kikuyu LADIES in tears as one of the most handsome Kikuyu radio presenters weds his beautiful girlfriend

TOP5: Forget Lulu Hassan And Rashid Abdalla, Meet This Other Power Couple

TOP6: Anajifanya Mjanja Lakini Wapi! Good News As This Details About The Killer Cop Emerge

TOP7: Ndio Hizi! Illuminati Schools In Kenya As Shocking Things Students Are Forced To Do Emerge

TOP8: Remember Ruto’s Daughter Who Was Buried Alive? See How She Has Transformed, Her Heartbreaking Story

TOP9: Last Moments: What Caroline Told Her Brother Before Committing Suicide

TOP10: Double Tragedy: Man Commits Suicide Days After Losing Both Wife And Daughter

Scooper is a news app developed by Transsion Group bringing you the latest content in Kenya and around the globe. Up to 2021, Scooper has employed more than 2000 PGC writers through its free-lance program that was tailored to provide job opportunities to the Kenyan population.

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January 26, 2022

Kevin Shelly nommé directeur des comptes stratégiques – Amériques pour Nikkiso ACD

TEMECULA, Californie, 26 janv. 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Nikkiso Cryogenic Industries’ Clean Energy & Industrial Gases Group (Groupe), une filiale de Nikkiso Co., Ltd (Japon), a le plaisir d’annoncer que Kevin Shelly a accepté un nouveau poste en tant que directeur des comptes stratégiques pour la Nikkiso Cryogenic Pumps Unit – Amériques.

Cette nouvelle position vitale au sein de l’équipe de direction soutient les objectifs du groupe visant à accroître davantage sa présence et son impact sur le marché du gaz industriel en Amérique du Nord et du Sud.

Kevin s’est forgé une expérience impressionnante du développement commercial, des relations avec les clients et de la gestion des grands comptes et des territoires au cours de plus de 20 années de travail dans ce secteur de l’industrie. Il se concentrera sur la vente d’équipements haut de gamme ainsi que sur le service et le marché secondaire pour l’unité Pumps du Groupe. Kevin jouera également un rôle crucial dans la stratégie du Groupe en facilitant l’identification des opportunités pour les entreprises du Groupe Nikkiso et en ouvrant la voie au renforcement de notre rôle de partenaire stratégique pour nos clients.

« L’unité Pumps est ravie d’accueillir Kevin à ce nouveau poste de direction stratégique », a déclaré Daryl Lamy, président-directeur général de l’unité Pumps du Groupe. « Ses années d’expérience viendront renforcer notre capacité à offrir à nos clients des produits de pompes cryogéniques, un service client et des solutions à valeur ajoutée de classe mondiale. »

Nikkiso Cryogenic Pumps Unit, qui comprend Nikkiso ACD et Nikkiso Cryo, est un fabricant de premier plan d’une gamme diversifiée de pompes cryogéniques de toutes tailles.

À PROPOS DE CRYOGENIC INDUSTRIES
Cryogenic Industries, Inc. (aujourd’hui membre de Nikkiso Co., Ltd) et ses entreprises membres fabriquent des équipements et de petites usines de traitement de gaz cryogéniques pour les secteurs du gaz naturel liquéfié (GNL), des services d’entretien de puits et du gaz industriel. Fondée il y a plus de 50 ans, Cryogenic Industries est la société-mère d’ACD, de Cosmodyne et de Cryoquip, ainsi qu’un groupe administré en commun comptant une vingtaine d’entités opérationnelles.

Pour tout complément d’information, veuillez consulter les sites www.nikkisoCEIG.com et www.nikkiso.com.

Contact auprès des médias :
Anna Quigley
+1.951.383.3314
aquigley@cryoind.com

January 26, 2022

Kevin Shelly Nomeado Gerente Estratégico de Contas – Américas da Nikkiso ACD

TEMECULA, Califórnia, Jan. 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — O Clean Energy & Industrial Gases Group (Grupo) da Nikkiso Cryogenic Industries, subsidiária da Nikkiso Co., Ltd (Japão), tem o prazer de anunciar a nomeação de Kevin Shelly como Gerente Estratégico de Contas da Unidade de Bombas da Nikkiso Cryogenic – Américas .Esta posição nova e vital para a equipe de gestão apoia os objetivos do Grupo de aumentar ainda mais sua presença e impacto no mercado de Gás Industrial em toda a América do Norte e do Sul.

Kevin tem um histórico impressionante com desenvolvimento de vendas, relações com clientes e gerenciamento de contas e territórios principais nos seus mais de 20 anos de experiência no setor. Seu foco será vender equipamentos de primeira qualidade, bem como serviços e pós-venda para o grupo de bombas. Kevin também desempenhará um papel vital na estratégia do Grupo, facilitando oportunidades para as empresas do grupo Nikkiso e abrindo caminho para se tornar um parceiro estratégico mais forte dos nossos clientes.

“A Unidade de Bombas está entusiasmada por ter Kevin nesta nova função de gestão estratégica”, disse Daryl Lamy, Presidente e CEO da Unidade de Bombas do Grupo. “Seus anos de experiência aumentarão nossa capacidade de oferecer produtos de bomba criogênica, atendimento ao cliente e soluções de valor agregado para nossos clientes de todo o mundo.”

A Unidade de Bombas da Nikkiso Cryogenic, que inclui a Nikkiso ACD e a Nikkiso Cryo, é uma fabricante líder de uma linha diversificada de bombas criogênicas – grandes a pequenas.

SOBRE A CRYOGENIC INDUSTRIES
A Cryogenic Industries, Inc. (agora membro da Nikkiso Co., Ltd.) fabrica equipamentos de processamento de gás criogênico projetados e plantas de processo de pequena escala para as indústrias de gás natural liquefeito (GNL), serviços de poços e gás industrial. Fundada há mais de 50 anos, a Cryogenic Industries é a empresa controladora da ACD, Cosmodyne e Cryoquip, e de um grupo comumente controlado de aproximadamente 20 entidades operacionais.

Para mais informação, visite www.nikkisoCEIG.com e www.nikkiso.com.

CONTATO COM A MÍDIA:
Anna Quigley
+1.951.383.3314
aquigley@cryoind.com

January 26, 2022

Le Sommet Mondial 2022 Rassemble des Conférenciers et des Participants de 157 Pays

Sommet Pour la Paix Dans la Péninsule Coréenne

Washington, DC, Jan. 25, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — POUR DIFFUSION IMMÉDIATE

Sommet mondial pour étudier les moyens

de ramener la paix dans la péninsule coréenne

La Fédération pour la paix universelle (FPU) et le gouvernement royal du Cambodge sont heureux d’annoncer la tenue du prochain Sommet mondial 2022 (Sommet pour la paix dans la péninsule coréenne) à Séoul, en Corée du Sud. Les conférenciers principaux et les participants de 157 pays s’adresseront à la fois à un public en personne et à un public virtuel mondial sur les perspectives de réconciliation pacifique de la péninsule coréenne.

Le Sommet mondial 2022 sera organisé par le Dr Hak Ja Han Moon, cofondatrice de la FPU, et co-organisé par Samdech Techo Hun Sen, Premier ministre du Royaume du Cambodge, et SE Ban Ki-moon, ancien secrétaire général du Les Nations unies.

Le Sommet, du 10 au 13 février 2022 est intitulé : « Vers la paix dans la péninsule coréenne ». Des orateurs éminents examineront de nombreux aspects de la réconciliation, à commencer par des propositions de dialogue constructif et la recherche d’un consensus entre les acteurs majeurs autour de la question coréenne.

D’autres sujets seront abordés : projets de coentreprise entre les deux Corées susceptibles d’impliquer aussi la Chine, le Japon, la Russie et les États-Unis ; projets touristiques en Corée du Nord ; convertir la DMZ – qui, intacte depuis 1953, est redevenue un environnement naturel vierge – en monument à la paix mondiale.

« La guerre de Corée a commencé il y a plus de 70 ans et s’est conclue par un armistice, et non par un traité de paix », a déclaré le président de la FPU, le Dr Thomas G. Walsh. Et d’ajouter : « La péninsule coréenne a une culture et langue et une histoire plurimillénaire commune. Ne peut-on pas résoudre ce conflit et chercher la réunification pacifique de la péninsule ? Le Sommet tentera de répondre à ces questions ».

Avec ce Sommet mondial 2022, la FPU poursuit une série d’activités de consolidation de la paix sous le thème « prospérité mutuelle, interdépendance valeurs universelles partagées ». La FPU, ONG dotée du statut consultatif général auprès du Conseil économique et social de l’ONU, est connue pour sa série de Rassemblement de l’Espoir, ses conférences internationales des dirigeants et, depuis début 2021, son Forum Think Tank 2022. Ce dernier projet mobilise plus de 2 000 leaders d’opinion mondiaux en vue d’une percée pour la paix dans la péninsule coréenne. (Des détails sur les Think Tank 2022 sont disponibles sur UPF.org.)

Conformément aux directives de sécurité de Covid-19, plus de 1000 personnes devraient se rassembler à Séoul pour le Sommet mondial 2022 lors des séances d’ouverture du vendredi 11 février 2022. Des millions d’autres participeront via un format hybride de haute technologie.

Dans le cadre du Sommet mondial 2022, les associations de consolidation de la paix affiliées à la FPU tiendront plusieurs sessions de haut niveau :

● Le Conseil international au sommet pour la paix (ICSP) et l’Association internationale des premières dames pour la paix (IAFP)

● Association internationale des parlementaires pour la paix (IAPP)

● Association interreligieuse pour la paix et le développement (IAPD)

● Association internationale pour la paix et le développement économique (IAED)

● Association internationale des médias pour la paix (IMAP)

● Association internationale des universitaires pour la paix (IAAP)

● Association internationale des arts et de la culture pour la paix (IAACP)

Pour les demandes des médias, veuillez contacter :

William P. Selig | Directeur des communications, Universal Peace Federation

Tél. : 240-274-1744 | Courriel : wselig@upf.org | Web : www.upf.org

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January 26, 2022

Solar-Powered Oxygen Saving the Lives of Somali Children

The installation of a solar-powered medical oxygen system at a hospital in central Somalia is proving effective in saving lives, Somali and World Health Organization doctors said.

The innovative solar oxygen system, the first of its kind in Somalia, was installed at Hanaano hospital, in the central town of Dhusamareb a year ago. Doctors say the system is having an impact and helping save the lives of very young patients.

“This innovation is giving us promise and hopes,” says Dr. Mamunur Rahman Malik, WHO Somalia Representative.

Malik says 171 patients received oxygen at the hospital from the solar-powered system from February to October last year. Of these 163 patients (95.3%) fully recovered and were discharged from the hospital. Only three patients died, and five other patients were referred to other hospitals.

Malik said every year some 15,000 to 20,000 deaths occur in Somalia among children under five years of age due to pneumonia. He says pneumonia is the deadliest disease among children under the age of five in the country. Until now, health authorities had not had access to an intervention that could reduce deaths from childhood pneumonia.

Dr. Mohamed Abdi, the director of Hanaano hospital, said the innovation is making a difference.

“It has helped a lot, it has saved more than a hundred people who received the service,” he told VOA Somali.

“It was a problem for the children under one year and the children who are born six months to get enough oxygen. Now we are not worried about oxygen availability if the electricity goes out because there are the oxygen concentrators.”

Abdi said it was difficult for doctors to save the lives of children born prematurely at the hospital before the installation of the system. The new system helps maintain high oxygen saturation levels of patients.

Abdiaziz Omar Abdi was a child admitted to the hospital on January 16 with severe pneumonia and was struggling to breathe normally. The oxygen rate in his body had dropped to 60%, Abdi said.

Doctors immediately put him on oxygen along with ampicillin and dexamethasone medications. When discharged three days later, he was breathing normally. His oxygen was up to 90%.

“I came because my child was unwell, he was not breathing properly, he was not breastfeeding,” says relieved mother Fadumo Ahmed Ali.

“Now he is breastfeeding. He is feeling well.”

Abdiaziz received the treatment at no cost to his family.

Malik said the oxygen is being used to treat a wide range of medical conditions — asphyxia, pneumonia, injuries, trauma, and road traffic accidents.

“We have seen in other countries that use of solar-powered medical oxygen (if applied in a timely manner) can save up to 35% of deaths from childhood pneumonia,” he said.

Malik said if this innovation is used widely in Somalia, it can save the lives of at least 7,000 children who die “needlessly” due to pneumonia.

The initiative to install bio-medical equipment that uses solar energy at Hanaano hospital emerged during the height of COVID-19 in 2020, at a time when people were dying due to respiratory problems. Hospitals were unable to keep up with the amount of patients and the cost of a cylinder of oxygen rose to between $400 to $600.

“At the beginning of this pandemic we have seen that only 20% of hospitals or health facilities in Somalia had access to limited, very limited supply of oxygen,” Malik said.

“If you look at the current situation, as of today Somalia needs close to 3,000 or 4000 cubic meters of oxygen per day. So, oxygen was the biggest need in all the hospitals.”

Doctors said the solar system can also provide electricity to hospitals that need it. Solar power can also help provide energy for refrigeration needed to store vaccines or drugs at a low temperature, doctors said.

Source: Voice of America

January 26, 2022

Only 14 Cases of Guinea Worm Infection Reported Globally in 2021

As he faced the multitude of news cameras and reporters during a 2015 press conference grappling with a potentially fatal cancer diagnosis, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, then 90, said he had one more goal to fulfill.

“I’d like the last Guinea worm to die before I do,” he told a reporter, referring to the waterborne parasite that can grow up to 80 centimeters long inside the body, eventually erupting painfully out of the host’s skin and sometimes taking days to extract.

More than six years later, Carter, now 97, has battled through brain cancer and other health setbacks to see his Carter Center mark a milestone in the fight to rid the world of the once-neglected tropical disease the global nonprofit began dedicating resources to fighting in 1986.

We are pleased to mention that there are only 14 human cases in the world through the end of 2021, and none logged so far in 2022,” said Adam Weiss, director of the Carter Center’s Guinea Worm Eradication Program. During a recent Skype interview with VOA, he said it was the lowest number of recorded cases in human history.

Victory is close

The milestone places the effort tantalizingly close to eradication of the disease. Only one other disease has been eliminated: smallpox.

“Every year, more than 3 million people were suffering from Guinea worm,” Weiss told VOA. “Today, to be able to say it is in only 14 human beings on a planet of almost 8 billion people is remarkable.”

Remarkable in part, said Weiss, because the 14 cases in 2021 were also a 48% drop from the previous year — a time when the world has been dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.

“The national programs that operate the Guinea worm program have remained almost entirely operational throughout the pandemic,” he told VOA.

Much of the Guinea worm eradication effort in endemic countries isn’t staffed by foreign nationals, but instead relies on local villagers and community members to manage education and prevention efforts at local water sources.

“We built a formidable force at the community level,” said Makoy Logora, director of the Guinea worm eradication effort with the Ministry of Health in South Sudan. “We ensured that we have a program that was anchored within the structure of a community. We work every day to ensure that there is ownership at the community level.”

South Sudan at one point accounted for almost 80% of global infections. The effort to fight Guinea worm prevailed over civil war and sporadic unrest in South Sudan to reach the point of only four recorded cases in 2021.

I want to believe if we can do it in South Sudan, it can be done anywhere,” Logora told VOA during a recent Skype interview from his office in South Sudan’s capital, Juba.

Last strongholds

Mali, Ethiopia, Chad and parts of its border area with Cameroon are among the last strongholds of Guinea worm on the planet. If the remaining endemic countries can get rid the parasite completely, Guinea worm disease would become the first disease in human history eradicated through prevention and not vaccination.

While the effort has met dramatic success in recent years, Weiss said it has also experienced setbacks.

What we’ve seen in the last 10 years or so is infections occurring in domestic animals, so we’ve experienced a setback in the global campaign in 2012 when we started to see that occurring,” he said.

But only a small number of cases were recorded in animals in 2021, and the fight against the worm seems to be nearing the finish line. As the number of Guinea worm cases globally dwindles, Carter’s age is also advancing, and Weiss said everyone involved in the effort would like to see the goal of zero cases reached soon.

“You know, President Carter as our big boss but also as our North Star, trying to keep us focused — it adds a layer of pressure and also a layer of responsibility that we all have,” said Weiss. “I would like nothing more than to see it happen in his lifetime.”

Source: Voice of America