Japan Gives U.S.$ 33.3 Million Grant to End Polio in Nigeria
In an effort to protect millions of children from polio in Nigeria, the Japanese government yesterday announced a grant of $33.3 million in humanitarian emergency funding to the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF). The grant came as a result of new cases popped up in areas affected by conflicts in the Borno State […]
Experts – African Hunger Crisis Largely Man-made
According to a top UN official South Sudan is facing a “humanitarian catastrophe”. A famine is looming with almost 4 million people facing food insecurity. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) estimates that 50,000 children could die from malnutrition in the course of this year. Cartoonist Khalid Albaih has two visions of the problem. On […]
United Nations demands action as famine looms in Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen
Almost 1.4 million children suffering from severe malnutrition could die this year as famine looms in Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen, the UN children’s agency said. The warning comes a day after government officials and the United Nations declared famine in parts of South Sudan. In Yemen, where war has been raging for nearly two years, 462,000 […]
450,000 Nigerian Children Could Die from Famine in 2017 – United Nations
The United Nations International Children Emergency Fund, UNICEF, on Monday said that 1.4 million children suffering from severe malnutrition could die this year from famine in Nigeria and three other countries. The three other countries are Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen. According to UNICEF, in Yemen, where war has been raging for nearly two years, […]
U.S.$8 Million Dollars Needed to Repair Cyclone Damage in Mozambique
Mozambican Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosario is making a two day working visit to the southern province of Inhambane to assess the damage done by cyclone Dineo which hit the province on Wednesday and Thursday last week. Data from provincial governor Daniel Chapo indicates that the death toll from the cyclone stands at seven, […]
Sciences Po Executive Education is seeking for 30 participants reflexive of the excellence and socio-professional diversity of leaders in Africa to take part in the second LeAD Campus course
Sciences Po Executive Education, in partnership with the French Development Agency, the University of Cape Town, the Higher Institute of Management in Dakar and the AfricaFrance Foundation, is pleased to announce the start of the second LeAD Campus course on 2 April. Sciences Po Executive Education is seeking for 30 participants reflexive of the excellence […]
Thousands Could Drop Out of School As Zimbabwe Govt Fails to Pay Fees
AN estimated 339 000 pupils might drop out of school this year owing to government’s failure to adequately fund the Basic Education Assistance Module (BEAM) initiative, meant to assist vulnerable children with their school fees. The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare recently revealed that the programme will only be able […]
Sierra Leone Targets Over 1.5m Children for Free Polio Vaccination
Programme Manager of the Expanded Programme on Immunisation in the Ministry of Health and Sanitation yesterday revealed that over 1.5million children between 0 and 59 months would be targeted for free Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV). Dr. Dennis Marke told a presser at the conference hall of the ministry that the fourth round of National Anti-Polio […]
Cash Transfer Programs Booming in Zambia: Battling African Poverty
Programs designed to alleviate hunger and increase food supply through cash transfers to some of Zambia’s poorest families achieved those goals and more, final evaluations conducted by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) revealed. Overall, researchers found that a cash-transfer program geared toward families with at least one young child had effects that amounted to […]
Nigeria Records First Successful Bone Bridge Surgery in West Africa
The Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) in December 2015 carried out the first successful Bone Bridge Surgery in West Africa as well as successful Cochlear Implant surgeries on three deaf patients without the support of foreign doctors, the state government said on Tuesday. LASUTH also had its first successful Kidney Transplant carried out by […]
