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Child diarrhea cases rise in Cape Town as sewage runs on streets
Like clockwork, diarrhea among children spikes sharply during Cape Town’s long summer. The city tends to blame the heat and people’s poor hygiene practices, but its own sewage infrastructure may be the real culprit
By Steve Kretzmann…
Ghana will ensure success of Pan-African Vaccine Manufacturing Project – Akufo-Addo
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says Ghana will play her role to make the Pan-African Vaccine Manufacturing Project a success.
“As I said in Marburg, the Pan-African Vaccine Manufacturing Project fits perfectly with Ghana’s…
African governments urged to adopt common regional, continental strategic approaches to address…
Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has urged African governments to collaborate and implement a common strategy toward mitigating the economic challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
He noted that…
Global displacements hit another record – UNHCR
The UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency has disclosed that those displaced by war, violence, persecution, and human rights abuses at the end of 2021 stood at 89.3 million, up eight percent from a year earlier.
According to UNHCR's annual Global…
UNAIDS, Samba Peuzzi raise alarm on HIV among children in West and Central Africa
As part of a new campaign to stop new HIV infections among children and ensure access to treatment, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is working with Senegalese rap artist Samba Peuzzi to mobilise young people in West…
African governments asked to demand climate justice from ‘Big Polluters’
The Vision for Alternative Development (VALD) and its partners have called on African governments to demand climate justice from “Big Polluters” like Exxon, Shell and others by providing adequate loss and damage finance.
“For decades,…
Make informed choices to reap benefits presented by AfCFTA – RECs told
Mr Wamkele Mene, Secretary-General of the AfCFTA Secretariat, says to support the implementation processes of the Agreement, Regional Economic Communities (RECs) need to make informed choices about how to reap the benefits presented by…
PAPSS Payment System will cut-out middlemen
Nana Dwemoh Benneh, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Universal Merchant Bank (UMB), has expressed optimism that the Pan African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) will boost trade on the African Continent.
This is because PAPSS, a…
Organisers of Africa CEO Forum to hold Africa Financial Industry Summit in November
The organisers of the Africa CEO Forum, Jeune Afrique Media will hold the second Africa Financial Industry Summit (AFIS) in November this year in the Togolese capital Lome, under the theme: Green, Borderless and Digital – Transforming…
Akufo-Addo urges Africa to trade more with itself as AfCFTA is a game-changer
African countries trade least among themselves, and trade more with countries on other continents, and President Nana Akufo-Addo says it is therefore not an accident that Africa being the continent that trades least with itself is the…