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Africa’s COVID-19 cases resurge by 20%

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says Africa has marked its worst pandemic week ever, as cases rose for seven consecutive weeks since the start...

Africa should collaborate to transform food, nutrition system – Ethiopian ex-PM

Former Ethiopian Prime Minister, Mr Hailemariam Desalegn, has emphasised the need for African leaders to collaborate to transform the continent’s food and nutrition system. Desalegn...

Oral nicotine offers Africa new route on tobacco control

Africa is heading down the wrong road in its efforts to reduce its death toll from smoking. Although the number of smokers on the continent...

WHO says Africa faces steepest COVID-19 surge yet

Africa is facing a surge in the third wave of COVID-19 pandemic, says Dr Matshidiso Moeti. Moeti, World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director for Africa,...

Africa’s COVID-19 infections surging by 20% amid third wave – WHO

The COVID-19 positive cases in Africa is surging by 20 per cent on a weekly basis, as most countries in the continent enters a...

World Bank, AU agree to deploy COVID-19 vaccines for 400m Africans

President of the World Bank, Mr David Malpass, and his senior management team comprised of Dr Axel van Trotsenburg and Dr Makhtar Diop met...

COVID-19: G7 institutions, partners to recover, grow Africa with $80bn

The G7 Development Finance Institutions (DFIs), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the African Development Bank (AfDB), European Bank for...

Climate change: Africa faces drought, hunger, mass migration – Experts

Nearly half of Africa’s population could face a future of widespread drought, hunger and mass migration due to the effects of climate change –...

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Ghana’s biosafety authority: Granting GMO import permits to be based on regulations, international best practices

Clearly, it will not be out of place to declare April 2024 as “the month of Genetic Engineering GE)”...
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Stakeholders advocate increased budget to fight impacts of climate change

Stakeholders in the environment sector have called for increased budget allocation to fight the impacts of climate change in...

Domestic ivory markets must not be reopened – EPI Foundation

The EPI Foundation, the secretariat to the 24 African member states of the Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI), has expressed...

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