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Africa's Centre for Disease Control and Prevention launched its strategic plan in 2023 to enhance surveillance, emergency response, and infectious disease prevention. Among the public health challenges that the new public health order addresses is the
The area that the government wants to move them to is already occupied
Plans to relocate informal farmers occupying state owned land in Eerste River have hit a brick wall. The farmers are concerned that they will be moved to sites that other people are already occupying which could cause further ten...
Nigeria and Niger have signed an agreement to enhance their security cooperation, despite lingering tensions between the neighbouring West African countries following Niger's coup a year ago.
"Both parties reaffirmed their commitment to resuming and strengthening collaboration, with a view to ensuri...
Senegal has suspended mining activities along the Falémé river, which forms part of its southeastern border with Mali, in a bid to preserve the environment and protect public health. However, enforcing the ban won't be easy.
Artisanal gold mining is booming in Kédougou, a region...
The Sanaria PfSPZ malaria vaccine has made history by proving effective in
Amid political tension in Guinea-Bissau following President Umaro Sissoco Embaló's dissolution of parliament in December, it was only natural for radio journalist Ussumane Mané to ask the West African leader a question that was on everyone's lips: will there be a presidential election ...
At least 17 of the displaced locals who went to get food for their families were killed by the terrorists.
In June, Kabiru Salihu and Saleh Alhajin Kara sneaked back into their terror-stricken home in Bassa village, Shiroro Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State, to collect food for their famili...
WHO has asked manufacturers of mpox in vitro diagnostics (IVDs) to submit an expression of interest for Emergency Use Listing (EUL). WHO has been in ongoing discussions with manufacturers about the need for effective diagnostics, particularly in low-income settings. The request for EUL expressions o...
Seventeen years after the African Union first deployed a mission in Somalia to weaken the violent extremist group al-Shabaab, the country is preparing for its third peace support operation, set to begin on January 1, 2025,
Raila Odinga, Kenya's veteran politician, now has an uphill task to convince most African Union members to vote for him for the African Union Commission Chairmanship.
The U.S. government says it is set to expand the Lobito Corridor - a railway project that runs from Angola to Zambia through the Democratic Republic of the Congo - all the way to the Indian Ocean through Tanzania. The railway would connect African countries to global markets and enhance regional tra...
Journalists in Cameroon say attacks on reporters have surged as the country prepares for next year's presidential elections. Ninety-one-year-old President Paul Biya, who has ruled the country for over four decades, may run again. Rights groups say six journalists have been assaulted by gunmen in the...
Africa's nuclear energy ambitions face significant challenges as experts question whether the continent's infrastructure can support such a leap. Industry leaders from the US and Africa's nuclear energy sector are meeting in Nairobi this week to discuss how to move forward.
The four-day conference a...
Breakthroughs providing for greater humanitarian access that were achieved in the first round of U.S.-mediated peace talks on Sudan are holding and expanding, the United States' special envoy for Sudan said. The talks wrapped up in Geneva last Friday.
"We were able over a couple of weeks working int...
Kenya has revealed plans to lease large tracts of land to Israeli investors for wheat production, marking a renewed agricultural venture after an earlier Israeli-led maize project at the Galana-Kulalu irrigation scheme failed.
Kenya's Foreign Affairs Minister, Musalia Mudavadi, announced that Israel...
The entry of Elon Musk's Starlink into the Botswana market this week has been hailed as a "game-changer." Analysts concur the introduction of the satellite internet service provider will improve internet access but there is concern over subscription costs and the service potentially pushing local in...
Official sources within Sudan's Ministry of Health confirmed eight deaths, and 128 new cases of cholera in Kassala and El Gedaref states yesterday. The Emergency Room indicated in its meeting today that four deaths occurred in each state. The number of infections in Kassala state reached 87 cases, a...
Health officials in Uganda told Global Press Journal to ignore information provided by health workers at the border.
Esther Mwema assumed her 4-year-old son had chicken pox. He was lucky enough to get a medical exam at this camp for displaced people, where many families live in tents and even clean ...
Chinese lending to Africa rose for the first time in years in 2023, new research by Boston University's Global Development Policy Center showed Thursday. But the $4.61 billion loaned last year is still far less than China's commitments to the continent pre-pandemic.
In the heady early days of Chines...
Should African people be called black - or is the categorising of people by skin colour a racist practice? How about Africa? Is the name of the continent a racial slur because it was chosen by European exploiters and based on the weather rather than the people - and should it be renamed?
These are q...
The government expressed disappointment at the resident doctors' strike.
The Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare threatened on Thursday to invoke the no-work-no-pay rule against members of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) who are on strike over the abduction of one of th...
649 Free State Teachers Have Criminal Convictions
At least 650 employees at Free State schools, including teachers and support staff, have criminal records for offenses such as murder, attempted murder, r**e, assault, drug trafficking, housebreaking, and stock theft, committed between 1985 an...
President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi received Thursday 29/8/2024 a delegation from a number of US Congressional committees, headed by Senator Joni Ernst, in the presence of Minister of Foreign Affairs, Emmigration and Egyptian Expatriates Dr. Badr Abdelatty.
Spokesman for the Presidency, Ambassador Ahmed ...
In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court cited insufficient proof and the prosecution's reliance on "circumstantial evidence" that failed to meet the legal standard of "beyond a reasonable doubt" as reasons for its decision to acquit former Chief Just
Pretoria High Court grants preservation order over assets
Luxury homes, a farm and an upmarket car have been frozen as part of the ongoing investigation into lottery corruption. The High Court in Pretoria granted the Special Investigating Unit and the Asset Forfeiture Unit permission to freeze the p...
Egypt has delivered its first military aid to Somalia in over four decades, as confirmed by three diplomatic and Somali government sources. This move, which took place on Tuesday, is poised to escalate existing tensions between Somalia, Egypt, and Ethiopia, particularly in light of a recent controve...
Kenya's veteran politician Raila Odinga, who this week officially launched his bid for the African Union Commission Chairmanship, now has the uphill task of convincing the majority of the African Union Members to vote for him.
Odinga will need a two-thirds majority vote to become the fifth Commissio...
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization (WHO) have declared the latest outbreak of mpox in Africa a health emergency. An epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo has spread to neighbouring countries and more than 1,400 new mpox cases were detected ...
To succeed in tackling al-Shabaab, the new peace support operation needs appropriate resourcing and protection from regional tensions.
Seventeen years after the first African Union (AU) mission was deployed in Somalia to degrade the violent extremist group al-Shabaab, the country is set to have a th...
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This protest during the International Aids conference in Munich was aimed at changing how experts are identified, with the cry "Communities are Experts!", as well as speaking out about the missing experts who were denied visas or do not have formal medical qualifications.
''Access for all!'' Protestors at #AIDS2024 calling on pharmaceutical companies to lower the price of life-saving #HIV medication, including long-acting lenacapavir. Keep informed with allAfrica's Melody Chironda, reporting from the conference in Munich, Germany.
#Sudan #Women’s dialogue, bringing together Sudanese women in #Kampala (Uganda) from all political persuasions to discuss ending the war and putting in place a consensual transitional government in Sudan
Footage of the protest in Kenya shows clouds of tear gas and the sounds of gunshots in Nairobi. Several people have been reported dead and dozens injured. Anti-Finance Bill protesters have entered Parliament, damaging some buildings as police try to remove them. (This video has been shared on social media, and confirmed to be of Nairobi during the protests on June 25 - allAfrica editor)
''In Zamzam camp, there's an acute disaster on a catastrophic scale, with the fighting escalating, we're extremely worried that it'll make it even more difficult for the much-needed international support we've been calling for'' says Claire Nicolet, Head of MSF's Emergency Response
As floods continue to wreak havoc across Kenya, with the death toll reaching 228 and over 227,000 people affected since March, President William Ruto has visited flood-hit Mathare in Nairobi. Rescue efforts continue in various regions using helicopters, boats, and the help of government agencies and NGOs. For more, visit our Kenya section.
Efforts to reach others in this challenging operation continue.
This is the moment our colleagues at @ICHA_KRC deployed #drones that spotted this young child alone and marooned by floodwaters. They promptly alerted the Kenya Police, who then deployed a chopper for the rescue. We take pride in our ongoing partnership with the Kenya Police, which strengthens our search and rescue efforts. We also recognize the valuable contributions of other partners such as @KenyaFlyingLabs.
MSF currently supplies 75% of the water provided to refugee camps in Eastern Chad. These camps host about 600 000 people fleeing the conflict in Sudan. "We still don't supply enough. We would like to see [more] actors supply water to the people, so we can focus more on the medical conditions of the population," says Dr Christos Christou, MSF's International President.
14-year-old Angham was displaced from her home city of Madani when the fighting spread from Khartoum to Al Jazirah state. She is now living in a school in Kassala State where she and her family share a small office space. With no beds or mattresses, they sleep on the ground and struggling to survive. Angham says she misses everything about her old life; her friends, school, teachers, home, and even her bedroom. She hopes the war will end soon so she can return to her old life, but says she does not know what the future will bring and her hopes of becoming a doctor like her father have been shattered.
Highlights from the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) Trade and Investment mission to Nigeria that visited Abuja and Lagos from February 21-26, 2024.
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Nigerian fans at YabaTech College celebrate their team's Afcon semi-final against South Africa's Bafana Bafana. They're singing Tyla's Water, the song which won the Grammy in the Best African Music category, beating the other nominees - all Nigerian.
Following a three-nation, five-day visit to west Africa, U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield spoke with AllAfrica's Tami Hultman. From her office at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New York, Thomas-Greenfield talked about the ongoing crisis in Sudan, UN engagement with smaller, peaceful countries like Namibia and Africa's role on the Security Council. READ the interview. She cites her stops in Guinea Bissau, Sierra Leone and Liberia, where she led the U.S. Presidential Delegation to the inauguration of Liberia's 26th president, Joseph Boakai. In an earlier AllAfrica interview in Monrovia on Inauguration Day, she talked to Boakai Fofana about Liberia's post-conflict transition and the importance of democracy in Africa to the United States.
Over the past decade, Human Rights Watch visited more than a dozen prayer camps and documented cases of people with psychosocial disabilities who were chained for long periods, some for years. Beyond deprivation of liberty, they endured horrific abuses, unsanitary conditions and lack of hygiene, and lack of access to health care. For its video, Human Rights Watch spoke with people with mental health conditions in Ghana who are living meaningful lives in the community with support. They include medical professionals, social media influencers, and avid churchgoers. Human Rights Watch found that they are loved by their families and appreciated for their contributions to their communities.
A power move from women wanting to end child marriage before another generation of children have to deal with its consequences. Graca Machel, Michelle Obama, Melinda French Gates and Amal Clooney gathered activists (to share their stories), leaders (to share their skills) and funders (to share their resources) so that more and more girls, all girls, are "valued as full human beings", and not seen by family as a commodity, as Graca Machel, activist and founder of the Graça Machel Trust and the Foundation for Community Development, and former First Lady of South Africa and Mozambique, said 6 minutes into the final panel discussion.
A power move from women wanting to end child marriage before another generation of children have to deal with its consequences. Graca Machel, Michelle Obama, Melinda French Gates and Amal Clooney gathered activists (to share their stories), leaders (to share their skills) and funders (to share their resources) so that more and more girls, all girls, are "valued as full human beings", and not seen by family as a commodity, as Graca Machel, activist and founder of the Graça Machel Trust and the Foundation for Community Development, and former First Lady of South Africa and Mozambique, said 6 minutes into the final panel discussion.
"Whenever the rains are heavy, we move and rent shelters somewhere else. We are farmers with little income," says Muslima Ali, a resident of Jowhar, Somalia. Farmers are now digging canals to relieve the river and save their farms.
"For many months, Sudanese have been caught in the line of fire." - ICRC Africa Director Patrick Youssef @PYoussefICRC on the current situation in the country.
More than 330,000 doses of WHO-recommended RTS,S malaria vaccine arrived in Cameroon last night - a historic step towards broader vaccination against one of the deadliest diseases for African children The malaria burden is the highest on the African continent, which accounted for approximately 95% of global malaria cases and 96% of related deaths in 2021. With several African countries now finalizing rollout plans, an additional 1.7 million doses are set for delivery to Burkina Faso, Liberia, Niger and Sierra Leone in the coming weeks.
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