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The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa has announced the launch of a new and improved version of its online portal aimed at providing better access to more detailed country-specific data relating to Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), towards more evidence-based decision making against NTDs in Africa, says a…

The RBM Partnership to End Malaria has announced the appointment of Dr Abdourahmane Diallo, Republic of Guinea’s former health minister and current minister-health advisor to the Guinean president, as the Partnership’s next CEO, according a press statement by the Partnership. “The RBM Partnership Board is very excited to welcome Dr…

The 3rd Pan African Youth Conference on African Unity and Development and the Annual General Assembly meeting of the African Youth Commission (AYC), scheduled for 23-26 March 2019 has today kicked off in Banjul, The Gambia under the theme: ‘The Future Is Now; Youth are Not Too Young to Lead’.…

The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) and the government of Egypt last week launched the official website of the 8th Africa Agriculture Science Week (AASW8) themed: “Innovations, Institutions, and People” ahead of the forthcoming event and FARA General Assembly (GA) scheduled for between 28 and 31 October, 2019,…

The Accra-based Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) and its partner press freedom organisations from across the 14 other member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have jointly implored the President of Ghana, His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo, “to personally intervene in guaranteeing the safety…

There are plenty of proud male feminists, but to make equality a reality we need to draw more into the conversation   Men have always played critical roles in the women’s movement. From John Stuart Mill to Fredrick Douglass, male allies have long supported the struggle for gender equality. And…

The 2019 International Women`s Day (IWD) under the theme: “Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate Change” calls for innovative and creative strategies for advancing gender equality as well as the empowerment of women, particularly in the areas of social protection systems, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure The International Women’s…

The Nigeria chapter of the New Faces New Voices (NFNV) Women in Finance Network, one of the pan-African women networks under the Graca Machel Trust (GMT), which focuses on expanding the role and influence of African women in the financial sector, has on the occasion of the 2019 International Women’s…

The RBM Partnership to End Malaria has announced that Paris, the French capital, will be the official host city of the 2019 United Nations World Malaria Day scheduled for April 25; under the theme: “Zero Malaria Starts with Me.” The event is aimed at raising global awareness about the scourge…

About thirty leaders of local authorities from across Africa as well as civil society and sanitation and hygiene experts, last week gathered at Cape Town, South Africa on the occasion of the 5th African Conference on Sanitation and Hygiene (AfricaSan5). The meeting was convened by Speak Up Africa in partnership…