Ambassador Aurelien Lechevallier, briefing the media yesterday, insisted the doctors view in no way reflect the position of the French 

French Ambassador Aurelien Lechevallier says the remarks by  two French doctors show they should be looking after patients rather than saying stupid things that they know nothing about.

There was a need to test vaccines. 

Currently a decades old  anti-tuberculosis medicine known as BCG is being tested on a limited number of COVID 19 patients in Australia, Netherland and France among other countries.

He says this could also be tested in Africa,

(Take in test clip here)

The medicine needs to be tested in different areas with different specificities.

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They’re checking on conditions ahead of elections in that country scheduled for December 23.

Ambassadors from the UN Security Council will spend their time in the Congolese capital Kinshasa.

They’re due to see President Joseph Kabila and members of the electoral commission.

They’ll also speak to role-players in the election which will be two-years late.

Dutch Ambassador Karel van Oosterom says they’re looking for a free, fair and transparent poll.

He’ll be joined by his counterparts from Bolivia, Equatorial Guinea, the United States and France.

Kabila, who is standing down, has called on the UN to withdraw its peacekeepers from his country. 

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The Red Cross has appealed from $5-million to help those affected by the disaster.

The earthen dam is located on the commercial flower farm of Manuskel Patel who was not there when it burst.

It’s used to irrigate the flowers exported daily to the Netherlands and Germany and for fish farming.

It burst after heavy rains in the region breaking a prolonged drought.

Water from the dam in Solai, near the Rift Valley city of Nakuru,

wiped out two villages and swept away power lines.

Most people were asleep in their informal homes surrounding the dam when the tragedy occurred and their houses were swept away. 

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Unlike the South American lions the new arrivals will eventually be returned to the wild.

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The Netherlands-based Stichting Leeuw is paying to move the three lions from Germany to the Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary 300 kms north of Johannesburg later this month.

Sanctuary director Savannah Heuser says these lions will be very different from the 33 troubled and traumatised cats they received from South American circuses ten days ago.

(take in “can kill” clip here)

She says after several months of rehabilitation, the lions will eventually be able to return to live and breed in the wild.

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