The first cases of COVID-19 identified in Wuhan China in December 2019 proceeded to spread around the globe hitting big countries hard in 2020 with successive waves of mutated strains like the Delta variant in 2021 and Omicron in 2022. Micronesian countries, however, were able to isolate themselves from the first several variants and bide […]
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As subvariants of the Omicron coronavirus variant continue to circulate around the world, the virus will continue to pick up mutations along the way. Since the Omicron variant was identified at the end of November 2021, there have been several subvariants but no major evolutions in the virus that have been able to evade the
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Kajin Ṃajeḷ: chikinmelele.com/kojjela-mpox Last summer I remembered hearing about some kind of monkeypox that could become the next pandemic. After a few weeks though it fell out of the news cycle. As it turned out, monkeypox was neither the next COVID or the next AIDS. It is not even primarily spread by monkeys, so the World Health
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Kajin Iñliij: http://aejemjem.comwhat-to-know-about-mpox/ Jemar 2022 ewōr nuuj kōn juon kij etan monkeypox im ekar wōr kauwōta ekāāl in pandemic. Ak ālikin jet iien, ejjeḷọk bar nuuj. Kiiō, etan in mpox ekkar ñan World Health Organization. Ewōr meḷeḷe eḷapḷọk ilo Kajjitōk ko Ekkūtkūt an Oregon Health Authority. Ilo 2022, ewōr nañimej in Mpox ilo 110 laḷ akō ilo US
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This election the office of governor was open for new candidates in Arkansas to run. Governor Asa Hutchinson, being term limited, will be finishing his second term in office as state governor and handing over the position to Governor-Elect Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Although more than half of the states allow for the re-election of a
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Pasifika Strong, a multi-national census of Pacific Islander community organizations in the continental US, created by Kevin Lujan Lee in his doctoral work. There are over 400 organizations already in the census. The census data will be anonymized, aggregated, and released back to us in the community next year in December 2023. To facilitate the timely release of this
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Like the Olympics, midterm elections happen every two years but alternate between winter and summer sports. The midterms elect new members of Congress – not a new president. They happen in the middle of the president’s four-year term of office. In 2020, the balance of power swung over the Democrat party with the election of President
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We also have been watching Alaska which has ranked voting. With 95% votes counted, Alaska has one Senate and one House seat that has not yet been decided. Sen. Murkowski (R) running for re-election won 43.3% of the vote and Kelly Tshibaka (R), endorsed by Trump, received 42.7% of the votes. With ranked voting, however,
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Bwebwenato in juon sponsored article jān the Jones Campaign. Read in English – Who is Chris Jones? View video recordings in Marshallese and English – Full Interview. Juon bwebwenato ippān Chris Jones, eo ej karreelel n̄an kabna eo an Arkansas. Kwomaron̄ bout ilo Oktoba 24 – Nobōm̧ba 8. Im Chikin Meļeļe ej kajjitōk ippān: wōn
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Bwebwenato in juon sponsored article jān the Jones Campaign. You can watch the broadcast segment in Marshallese and more from the interview in English below. Chikin Melele focuses on news of interest to Marshallese in Arkansas and other communities in the US. If you are interested in advertising with us or sponsoring a news story,
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