First aid ship via Cyprus maritime corridor reaches Gaza

STORY: First aid ship via Cyprus maritime corridor reaches Gaza SHOOTING TIME: March 15, 2024 DATELINE: March 16, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:45 LOCATION: GAZA, Palestine CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the aid ship 2. various of the coast of the Palestinian enclave STORYLINE: The first aid ship, traveling through the Cyprus-Gaza humanitarian maritime corridor, reached the coast of the Palestinian enclave on Friday and began offloading its cargo, Palestinian sources said. The 200 tonnes of humanitarian aid onboard the ship was received by workers with the World Central Kitchen (WCK), who will facilitate its distribution to the local population grappling with severe food shortages, the sources told Xinhua. "Our team in Gaza is offloading desperately needed food from our first maritime aid shipment under Operation Safeena", WCK said in a statement, adding a crane also arrived at the Gazan coast to expedite the transfer of aid from the ship to delivery trucks. The vessel, manned by the Spanish aid organiz

Chinese film festival opens in Kenya

STORY: Chinese film festival opens in Kenya DATELINE: Oct. 28, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:31 LOCATION: Nairobi CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the film festival 2. various of Michael Pundo speaking 3. various of the performance STORYLINE: The 2022 Chinese film festival opened in Nairobi, Kenya on Thursday with a view to boosting Sino-Africa cooperation and cultural exchanges. Ababu Namwamba, newly appointed Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Youth Affairs, Sports and Arts said in a speech read on his behalf by Michael Pundo, CEO of Kenya Cultural Center, that the film festival is a platform for filmmakers from the two countries to exchange ideas and enhance the viewership of Chinese films by the Kenyan audience. "It is also a concrete action to actively implement the cultural and people-to-people exchange program under the nine plans of the Eighth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) that was held in 2021," Pundo said. The film festival was jointly organiz