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Health ministers from Africa’s eight Sahel countries have reaffirmed their commitment to eradicating the scourge of Malaria from the sub-region by the year 2030 with the recent launch of the Sahel Malaria Elimination Initiative, which seeks to accelerate the Sahelian region’s efforts to eliminate malaria. The health ministers of Burkina…

“On World Environment Day, the message is simple: reject the single-use plastic. Refuse what you can`t reuse. Together, we can chart a path to a cleaner, greener world” – UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres.   As the world’s population continues to grow, the amount of waste and garbage being produced…

Farm Radio International, the Ottawa, Canada-based nonprofit Thursday flagged off its Reducing Post-Harvest Loss through Social and Behaviour Change Communication (RePHL) project on tomato value chain in Nigeria. Farm Radio prides itself as the only international non-profit exclusively dedicated to serving African farming families and rural communities through radio; the…

As the world marks the 2018 International Youth Day, the secretariat of the African Youth SDGs Summit has called upon African governments to broaden the digital space by making it ‘accessible and affordable’ for young people on the continent and congratulated young people from across Africa for their continued interest…

The trees are a scientific wonder, once capable of living for thousands of years, but now becoming endangered species Morondava in Madagascar, the skyline in Senegal and Kruger national park all have something in common. These places are home to some of the largest trees in the world – baobabs, known…

Would white women in the US have supported #MeToo in the same way if it had been started by women elsewhere in the world?     When #MeToo first broke on Twitter in October 2017, it focused on workplace sexual harassment in the United States, particularly against white women in…

French President Emmanuel Macron has said Africa’s young people will through the vehicle of entrepreneurship drive the continent’s renaissance and sustainable development adding that Africa’s future was in Africa’s hands.   “It is part of the same message and the same narrative which is to say nobody has to decide…

African leaders in attendance at the 31st African Union Summit held at Nouakchott, Mauritania launched the new Pan-African Zero Malaria Starts with Me campaign, co-led by the AU Commission and RBM Partnership to End Malaria and supported by African leaders The new, continent-wide Pan-African Zero Malaria Starts with Me campaign…

At an event to mark one-year of his passing, colleagues, mentees, as well as friends and family of the Late Babatunde Osotimehin, Nigeria’s former minister of health who died as executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) was eulogized in glowing terms The late former executive director of…

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Ghana has endorsed the organisation of the 2018 African Youth SDG Summit scheduled for November 6th to 9th, 2018 under the theme: “Partnership with Youth to Achieve the SDGs: Moving from Policy to Practice” in Accra, Ghana. “We, the United Nations Population Fund…