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The U.S. government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), will be providing an additional $14.5 million to prepare Egyptian public university students for career success. The funding, which brings total U.S. government investment in Career Centers to $33 million, will establish 30 Centers for
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The African Development Bank and the Climate Investment Funds [CIF (https://bit.ly/3vSPNtq)%5D have joined forces (https://bit.ly/2OQ4QU9) to produce a study of the role of green banks and national climate change funds in mobilizing finance to support low-carbon, climate-resilient development in Africa. The ground-breaking study
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National laboratory systems play a crucial role in preventing, detecting and responding to health threats. An integral part of these systems, veterinary diagnostic laboratories are at the centre of veterinary services’ control programmes for transboundary animal diseases (TADs). TADs, including zoonosis, can have major impacts on economies, trade and food
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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, condemns in the strongest terms the attacks in western Niger that killed 137 people, many of them already displaced after having fled earlier violence. On Sunday afternoon, armed assailants on motorbikes attacked the villages of Intazayane, Bakorat and Wirsnat in Niger’s Tahoua region, some
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Le Ministre de la santé Benjamin HOUNKPATIN et l’Ambassadeur de la Chine près le Bénin Jing Tao PENG ont procédé à la réception de 203.000 doses du vaccin anti-Covid Coronavac du Fabricant SINOVAC. C’était dimanche 21 mars 2021 à l’aéroport international Cardinal Bernardin GANTIN de Cotonou.
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New Cases: 0 Total Confirmed: 3,948 Deaths: 79 Recovered: 2,791 Total in quarantine: 37 Discharged from quarantine: 14,636 Read more on https://africa-newsroom.com/press/coronavirus-sierra-leone-covid19-update-21-march-2021?lang=en New Cases: 0 Total Confirmed: 3,948 Deaths: 79 Recovered: 2,791 Total in quarantine: 37 Discharged from quarantine:
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The United Arab Emirates on Sunday sent an aid plane containing 7.7 metric tons of medical supplies and testing equipment to Union of the Comoros. This aid will assist approximately 7700 healthcare workers as they work to contain the spread of COVID-19. Commenting on the aid delivery, His Excellency
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Water sources in Somalia are drying up at a rapid rate as a looming drought intensifies, leaving 70 percent of families across the country without access to safe drinking water. Thousands of children are now reliant on emergency water trucking and unprotected wells or are forced to leave their homes
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The World Health Organization (WHO) donated lifesaving medicines and laboratory supplies for testing COVID-19 and Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) to the government of Liberia through the Ministry of Health. The supplies included Praziquantel tablets to treat nearly 1 million people through community mass drug administration, and assorted laboratory reagents and
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International partners* welcome the arrival of participants for the summit of the Federal Government of Somalia and Federal Member State leaders, to be held in the protected area of Mogadishu’s Aden Adde International Airport, and announced to begin on 22 March 2021. We urge them to convene quickly and
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“For us to be more resilient, we should let idle youth work at farms to produce more food,” suggested Victoria Yatoma, Executive Director of the Nile Sisters Development Organization. Ms. Yatoma made her recommendation at a workshop preceding the Annual Learning Forum, which is a joint programme launched under the
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New sustainability roadmap defines ambitious sustainability targets; group decides on “Science Based Targets” and aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris Climate Agreement; to this end, the Group will invest EUR 7 billion in climate-neutral logistics by 2030; by 2030, 80,000 e-vehicles shall be deployed
