The fifth Africa Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Day will be commemorated on 10 August 2022, during the twelfth year since the establishment of the Africa Programme on Accelerated Improvement of Civil Registration and Vital…
Download logoIn anticipation of the beginning of the high flooding period in Nigeria, the European Union is providing €70,000 on emergency preparedness to reduce the impact of floods in the country. This EU funding supports the Nigerian…
Download logoParliament has questioned government’s continued investment in thermal energy as opposed to other cheaper and clean sources of energy. During the Tuesday, 09 August 2022 plenary sitting, Members of Parliament urged government to adopt…
Download logoMundo Power LTD (Mundo-Power.com) is pleased to officially announce our Hybrid Power Solutions for the African Communities and businesses looking for robust renewable energy solutions. David Brown, V.P. International Business Development at Mundo Power…
During the first week of August, U.S. Ambassador Claire A. Pierangelo visited Madagascar’s drought-stricken South where she met with regional officials, health care providers, and food security specialists and beneficiaries, and saw first-hand the positive…
Download logoThe United Arab Emirates called for enriching conversations on peace and security by centering African experiences at a United Nations Security Council meeting on sustaining peace in Africa. The open debate was convened under the Chinese presidency of…
Download logoThe work of the Eastern Africa Standby Force – Election Observation Mission (EASF-EOM) for the general elections kick-started today, in the Republic of Kenya. Mr. Claude Morel, Seychelles’ High Commissioner based in Pretoria is the…
Download logoUntil last year, the students at Eliya Chimthengo Primary School in Dedza had never heard of digital learning. Their studies were conducted with one or two old and worn textbooks that were shared amongst…
Download logoThe Embassy of Cuba in South Africa extend warmest congratulations to all South African women on the occasion of celebrating the National Women's Day. Like Cubans, South African women have conquered many spaces in culture, sports,…
Download logoChildren in Malawi and Zambia are calling for their governments to change the school calendar and close during the winter months of June and July with climate change bringing colder temperatures leaving students unable…
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Download logoAfter four days of complaining of fever, headache, fatigue and cough, 40 years old Mr V Ehosa (not real name), a land seller residing in Benin, Edo State, tested positive for monkeypox. Mr Ehosa…
Download logoThe Connected Africa Girls Coding Camp is back this year with its 5th edition commissioned by ECA in partnership with the government of The Republic of Namibia, UN Namibia, UN WOMEN, and the International Telecommunications…
Download logo Human rights are universal. They encompass every single one of us, including the women and men who find themselves in prison. Explaining the existence and importance of protecting the rights of inmates was the…
Download logoThe United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the Ethiopian Government Refugees and Returnees Service (RRS) appealed today for US$73m to provide food rations to over 750,000 refugees in…
Download logoA series of attacks and threats within close proximity of Nigeria’s seat of government in Abuja by Islamist and other armed groups are causing fear and apprehension among citizens in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and…
Download logoPresident Uhuru Kenyatta on Tuesday morning cast his vote at Mutomo Primary School in Gatundu, Kiambu County. The Head of State, who was accompanied by First Lady Margaret Kenyatta, cast his vote shortly after…
Download logoSecretary Blinken travels to South Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda this week, where the United States has been deploying resources and working in partnership with African governments, institutions, businesses, scientists,…
Download logoA 66-year-old man who has been living with HIV since the 1980s might be the fourth person cured of the HIV virus that causes AIDS since this global epidemic was discovered. The story of this man who did not want to…
Download logoThe Islamic Development Bank Institute (IsDBI) (https://IsDBInstitute.org/) is inviting nominations for the IsDB Prize for Impactful Achievement in Islamic Economics for the year 1444H (2023). Focusing on the Development Solutions Achievement category, this cycle…