Countries: Algeria, Libya, Niger Source: International Organization for Migration IOM is seeking $121 million. Continuous returns of migrants from Algeria — as well as movement through Niger to and from Algeria and Libya — leave migrants lacking shelter, food, water and healthcare.

The Chinese government has denied it obstructed Taiwan’s coronavirus vaccine purchase from BioNTech, after the island’s health minister revealed that its deal with the German drugmaker fell through at the last minute due to possible “political pressure.”

The 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (the NDAA) was enacted into law over a presidential veto on 1 January 2021. A portion of the NDAA, the Corporate Transparency Act (the Act), imposes new beneficial ownership reporting requirements on certain businesses formed or registered to do business in the United States. […]

Countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea Source: World Health Organization More than 100 WHO staff are expected to be part of the Ebola response by end-month. Efforts are ongoing to step up surveillance, contact-tracing, testing and treatment as well as preparing for vaccines.

Golden-mantled ground squirrels are photogenic little critters living in the Rocky Mountains in North America. As their name suggests, the squirrels prefer to spend their time on the ground rather than climb trees. Yet they are still climbing upwards. On hillsides, that is. In the southern part of the Rockies […]

On 21 January 2021, President Biden issued an executive order directing the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health to issue new guidance for employers in an effort to assure more stringent worker safety standards to better protect workers from COVID-19.1 While some […]