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Flutterwave, an African fintech startup has secured $170 million in capital injections from investors, the firm said in a statement Wednesday. The new capital flows — facilitated by “a leading group of international investors” — will bolster Flutterwave’s client base in the global market, the statement said. “The fundraise brings the total investment in Flutterwave

Click here for updates on this story     ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — Pediatric specialists and researchers at Washington University are behind a major research effort led by the Nation Institutes of Health to investigate an illness common in children that develops weeks after contracting COVID-19. According to doctors, Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children, also known as

Click here for updates on this story     PEARL CITY, Hawaii (KITV) — Officials have suspended the search for a person who was swept away by a raging river on Oahu’s north shore on Tuesday. Wednesday at 5:58 a.m., the Honolulu Fire Department (HFD) resumed the search for a person in the Waiawa Stream in Pearl

Click here for updates on this story     ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — March 10 marks one year to the day that Gov. Roy Cooper issued a state of emergency in North Carolina as COVID-19 cases began popping up across the state. On that same day, state health officials began recommending long-term care facilities start restricting

Click here for updates on this story     DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pennsylvania (WPMT) — Police in Derry Township said Thursday that several residents have reported recent sightings on coyotes in the township. The Dauphin County police department said it has been in contact with the Pennsylvania Game Commission about the animals and any concerns they might present

Workers at a Kroger clinic in Central Virginia accidentally injected some customers with empty syringes instead of the Covid-19 vaccine, according to the grocery chain. A Kroger spokeswoman said in a statement that “a small number of patients” received the empty shots at their The Little Clinic location in Midlothian, which is near Richmond. “All

A 96-year-old man accused of being an SS guard at the Stutthof camp in Nazi-occupied Poland has been deemed “unfit to stand trial.” The man, named only as “Harry S.,” is alleged to have been stationed at the concentration camp — where it is estimated 65,000 people were murdered during the Holocaust. The court in

Click here for updates on this story     DAVENPORT, Iowa (Quad-City Times ) — Davenport city officials intend to use a portion of proceeds from the pending $6.35 million sale of a downtown public housing property to get a long-talked about Juvenile Assessment Center off the ground. Davenport aldermen met Tuesday for a work session to

Click here for updates on this story     DURHAM, North Carolina (WRAL) — With brush, oil — and a lot of heart — Maria Bennett Hock painted 45 portraits or 45 heroes in 45 days. Every portrait is of an employee at Duke University Medical Center. Hock, a portraitist, longed to give countenance to the faces

Click here for updates on this story     WISCONSIN DELLS, Wisconsin (WiscNews) — The Wisconsin Dells community is helping a retired firefighter and his family rebuild after a fire destroyed their home March 5. At least two online fundraisers and two drop-off donation sites have been set up in Wisconsin Dells and Baraboo to help Chris

Here is a look at famine, a severe and prolonged hunger in a significant portion of a region or country’s population that results in malnutrition and death by starvation and disease. To assess a country’s food security, the United Nations uses the five-phase scale known as the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). Famine can