300 College Students In Nigeria Hospitalised For Diarrhoea
Over 300 students of the Federal Government Girls’ College, Efon Alaaye, Ekiti State, have been hospitalised for diarrhoea.Information gathered reveal that some of the students were discharged after treatment. The development triggered serious panic across the state, as parents whose wards are in the school trooped in to confirm the health status of their kids. […]
Saving Mothers And Babies Advances Africa – Melinda Gates
Sometimes the technical words we use to describe a problem mask its true nature.Such is the case for the hundreds of thousands of women who die during pregnancy or delivery each year across Africa. For them, the official cause of death may be recorded as postpartum hemorrhage or uterine rupture. Similarly, for the alarming number […]
Serious Malnutrition Problem In Madagascar: Some Children Are Shorter Than Their Peers
People in Madagascar are puzzled why some children aren’t getting enough nutrients so are shorter than their peers in an area where there is plenty of food. In a community nutrition centre in a suburb of Antsirabe one of the main towns in the central highlands region of Madagascar two little girls, just under three-and-a-half […]
It’s Easy To Leave The UN Base In South Sudan But Departing Is Often Accompanied By Death
Whether it’s through breaks in the patchy razor-wired mud walls or out its gates, it is easy to leave the UN base here but departing is often accompanied by death. About 100 metres from the main gate of the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS), a tractor-digger clears space in a […]
African Civil Society Under Threat: Mary Robinson
The decline of human rights on average across Africa is worrying Mary Robinson, the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and now a special envoy on climate change for the UN Secretary-General. Discussing this year’s Ibrahim Index of African Governance, she also underlined the need for more data on climate change. She spoke […]
Malawi Faces Worst Food Crisis in a Decade
The United Nations World Food Program reports it is scaling up life-saving operations for more than 2 million people in Malawi. The WFP said Malawi faces the worst food crisis in a decade following severe floods and drought that have ruined this year’s harvest. The World Food Program warns more than 2.8 million people, nearly […]
Villagers In Zimbabwe Skip Meals To Save Scant Food
Villagers in Zimbabwe are skipping meals and foraging for wild fruit as food stocks run out after a poor harvest blamed on drought and controversial land reforms. “Even if the children complain of hunger there is nothing we can do about it,” says Rabian Chidamba, 40, a mother of four who lives in Musana district […]
Could Your Next Oyster Appetizer Come From Dakhla, Morocco?
It’s now September – the first month since springtime to have an “R” in its name – which means that according to that “little pearl of folk wisdom,” it’s oyster season! Few people think of Morocco when they think of oysters. Seafood overall sometimes comes as a surprise to travelers expecting to eat chicken tagine, […]
Egyptian researchers developed a cost-effective method for cleaning saltwater in just minutes
Finding ways to create clean drinking water where there is none is a field of constant innovation. Desalination, the process of filtering seawater to make it fit for human use, is perhaps the most common and researchers around the globe are on a quest to bring cost-effective and portable desalination technology to rural areas where […]
Zim Schools Ban Porridge to Prevent Brewing Beer
Some boarding schools in Zimbabwe have banned their pupils from bringing breakfast cereal with them because the students have been using it to brew beer, it was reported on Tuesday. Zimbabwean school pupils headed back for the start of a new term on Tuesday, minus, or so the authorities hoped their porridge. The Chronicle newspaper […]
