Russia sentences US citizen Ksenia Karelina to 12 years for Ukraine donation
Los Angeles resident hopes to be freed in future prisoner exchanges
A Russian court has sentenced Ksenia Karelina, a dual Russian-US citizen, to 12 years in prison for treason over a donation she made to a charity that helps Ukraine.
The Sverdlovsk Regional Court announced the sentence on Thursday after prosecutors had asked the judge to jail Ms Karelina, 33, for 15 years. The Federal Security Service, known as the FSB, accused her in February of collecting funds for the Ukrainian army, Russia’s state-run Tass news service reported.
A resident of Los Angeles, Ms Karelina was detained during a family visit to the city of Yekaterinburg. She pleaded guilty on August 7 and hopes to be released in a future prisoner exchange with the US, her lawyer Mikhail Mushailov said, according to Tass.
https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/us/2024/08/15/russia-sentences-us-citizen-ksenia-karelina-to-12-years-for-ukraine-donation/
Something like 14,000 cases in Democratic Republic of Congo.
DRC population is around 100,000,000 people.
About 5-600 deaths.
Most cases involve homosexuals.
Do the sums.
Stay away from the Congo and Bangui in particular and you will be fine.
Most cases in the Congo capital region of Bangui
BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — African health officials said mpox cases have spiked by 160% so far this year, warning the risk of further spread is high given the lack of effective treatments or vaccines on the continent.
The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report released Wednesday that mpox, also known as monkeypox, has now been detected in 10 African countries this year including Congo, which has more than 96% of all cases and deaths.
Officials said nearly 70% of cases in Congo are in children younger than 15, who also accounted for 85% of deaths.
There have been an estimated 14,250 cases so far this year, nearly as many as all of last year. Compared to the first seven months of 2023, the Africa CDC said cases are up 160% and deaths are up 19%, to 456.
Burundi and Rwanda both reported the virus for the first time this week.
New outbreaks were also declared this week in Kenya and Central African Republic, with cases extending to its densely populated capital, Bangui.
“We are very concerned about the cases of monkeypox, which is ravaging (the capital region),” the Central African Republic’s public health minister, Pierre Somsé, said Monday.
https://apnews.com/article/mpox-cases-outbreak-africa-health-3d9b808b905ecafe344aa7dc63e4395b