2 Aug 2021

Calling London: France's vaccine plan and famine in Ethiopia

From Lately, 10:22 pm on 2 August 2021

Audrey Tinline from the BBC reports on whether the French President's 'vaccine passport' plan can go ahead. France holds a donors conference in Lebanon, a year after the deadly Beirut port blast which killed at least 204 people.  There is impending famine in Tigray, Ethiopia. There's a new push by the UN and the US to get access to this region of Ethiopia, where hundreds of thousands of people in the war-battered region face the world's worst famine crisis in 10 years. 

For the third week in a row, anti-vaccine and anti-health pass demonstrations continued in France amid rising COVID-19 infection rates.

For the third week in a row, anti-vaccine and anti-health pass demonstrations continued in France amid rising COVID-19 infection rates. Saturday's protests, according to the Interior Ministry, saw an estimated 184 rallies with 204,090 demonstrators across the country, a figure higher than the previous weeks. Photo: Alaattin Dogru / ANADOLU AGENCY / Anadolu Agency via AFP