Africa’s Crypto Boom: Insights From Cape Town Gathering
Crypto Fest 2023 blasted into Cape Town, celebrating the next evolution of digital assets and locally built solutions. International headlines may be applauding the fall of some of the first crypto superstars, but a strong attendance at Africa’s premier crypto industry meetup demonstrates that digital solutions can still make a meaningful, positive difference on the […]
Good For Girls And Good For The Planet: Eco-Friendly Sanitary Towels
By Wilson Odhiambo ’Going Green’ seems to Dr Jacquline Kisato’s favorite catchphrase as she passionately explains her eco-friendly sanitary towel, a product she expects will help empower women and young girls while also putting money into farmers’ pockets. Kisato is a lecturer at the Kenyatta University (KU), Fashion Design and Marketing, currently working on a project […]
Uganda: Speaker tasks agriculture committee to review status of valley dams
The Speaker, Anita Among, has tasked the Committee on Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries to make a comprehensive study on the status of valley dams and irrigations schemes across the country. The directive given during the plenary sitting on Tuesday, 28 November 2023, follows recommendations by the committee following their assessment of water for agriculture […]
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) undertakes a closing ceremony for the Technical Cooperation window of the ECOWAS Fund for Regional Stabilization and Development (FRSD) in The Gambia
The ECOWAS Fund for Regional Stabilization and Development (FRSD) is an instrument established by the ECOWAS Commission with support from the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), to address fragilities in the ECOWAS region. Implementation of interventions are undertaken through a Financial Cooperation Window that focuses on infrastructure led by KfW, and […]
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Sends High-Level Delegation to Sierra Leone following the Disturbance in the Country
A High-level delegation from ECOWAS Commission and the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has visited Freetown, Sierra Leone following a plot by certain individuals to acquire arms and disturb the peace and constitutional order in the country. The delegation which met with President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone on November 27, 2023, […]
Rural Electrification Agency (REA) deploys over 100 mini-grids for inclusive development in Nigeria in 3 years
Under the leadership of the Federal Ministry of Power, Nigeria, the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) (https://REA.gov.ng/) of Nigeria is set to play a key role at the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) on the 5th of December, 2023. […]
Advocating for Women’s Rights: Charity Edisa, Peacebuilder
At 54 years of age, Charity Edisa from Mundri in South Sudan’s Western Equatoria state, is passionate about community work. “I am a mother of four and ever since I can remember, I’ve been drawn towards helping women and girls have equal opportunities to shine,” she recounts. Initially, Charity worked as a schoolteacher but the […]
FIND and Rwanda Biomedical Centre sign agreement to support digitally enabled, equitable access to testing
A Collaboration Agreement has been signed between FIND (www.FINDdx.org) and the Rwanda Biomedical Centre to accelerate diagnostic innovation, strengthen regional manufacturing, and boost disease surveillance capabilities. FIND and the Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC) announced today that the organizations have signed a Collaboration Agreement that includes several areas of collaboration linked to the implementation of the Resolution […]
Continued violence in Sudan is having catastrophic health consequences on displaced people, warns International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Close to 3,000 suspected cases of Cholera have been recorded across Sudan since September 26th; At least 95 fatalities from Cholera have been recorded in Sudan in the same period; About 201,500 children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) were admitted and received treatment in Sudan between 1 January and 31 September 2023; IRC has recorded a 31.65% increase […]
FIND calls for commitments to implement the World Health Assembly (WHA) Resolution on diagnostics, signs an agreement with Rwanda Biomedical Centre and launches a new report on diagnostics for global health security
FIND (www.FINDdx.org) is calling for commitments to support the implementation of the Resolution on diagnostics that was adopted at the World Health Assembly earlier this year; A Collaboration Agreement has been signed with the Rwanda Biomedical Centre to support digitally enabled, equitable access to testing; FIND and the Independent Pandemic Preparedness Secretariat have launched a new report […]
