Zanzibar sees decline in poverty at 2.9 percent
Despite substantial improvements in living conditions and a drop in poverty between 2009 and 2019, poverty reduction in Zanzibar has been slow relative to its economic growth. A new World Bank Group report, “Towards a More Inclusive Zanzibar Economy: Zanzibar Poverty Assessment 2022” shows while Zanzibar’s gross domestic product (GDP) per capita grew at 2.9 […]
Why Uncontrolled HIV May Be Behind The Emergence Of Omicron?
HEALTH: Where did Omicron come from? By all accounts it is a weird variant. Though highly mutated, it descended not from one of the other variants of concern, such as Alpha, Beta or Delta, but from coronavirus that was circulating maybe 18 months ago. So where has it been all this time? And why is […]