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Kenya opposition files challenge over election results
Lawyers representing the Kenyan opposition coalition National Super Alliance filed a petition on Friday with the Supreme Court challenging President Uhuru Kenyatta’s re-election, beating a midnight deadline. A statement from the group’s presidential candidate, Raila Odinga, and his running mate, Kalonzo Musyoka, said they turned to the high court because…
Read More »Sierra Leone warns of more mudslides as rain forecast
Authorities in Sierra Leone warned on Thursday of danger from more mudslides as a large crack has opened on a mountainside in the capital, Freetown. The government said the priority was to evacuate people from areas still under threat from mudslides and floods as more rain is forecast for this…
Read More »MEDIA ADVISORY: Ethiopia to Host the fourth Acting on the Call Conference of Ministers and Policy Makers
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia,17 August 2017,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- What: The Ministry of Health will official announce that Ethiopia will be hosting Acting on the Call conference of Ministers and high level policy makers on maternal and child survival When: Friday 18 August 2017, from 2:00 P.M – 3:30 P.M Where:…
Read More »SAP Africa Code Week returns to invest in Nigeria’s teachers
Training teachers, volunteers and unemployed in to ensure that no child is left behind during Africa Code Week 2017 AKURE, Nigeria,17 August 2017,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Over the next weeks Nigeria will play host to a series of official train-the-trainer (TTT) workshop sessions as the country takes on a leading…
Read More »Mass burials after devastating Sierra Leone mudslide
Facing the threat of disease, people in Sierra Leone on Wednesday began burying hundreds of victims of a mudslide that swept away homes on the edge of the capital, Freetown, in one of Africa’s worst flood disasters in living memory. Hundreds of Freetown residents queued to identify relatives crushed by…
Read More »“How to make agriculture appeal to educated Nigerian youth” – Makka
Serah Makka is the country director of ONE Nigeria, a campaigning and advocacy organisation working to end extreme poverty and preventable diseases, particularly in Africa. Here, she speaks about the ONE campaign’s effort to end extreme poverty in Nigeria How has it been steering over the affairs…
Read More »Suspected Boko Haram bombers kill dozens in Nigeria
A female suicide bomber blew herself up and killed 27 others at a market in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday, two local officials said, in an attack bearing the hallmark of Boko Haram. Two more suicide bombers detonated their devices at the gates to a nearby refugee camp, wounding many people,…
Read More »South Africa ‘fails’ to compensate slain miners’ families
Paballong, South Africa – Five years ago 34 miners striking over poor pay and harsh working conditions were shot and killed by police in South Africa. The government promised the families of the men compensation for what is called the Marikana massacre. But they still have not received any money. The…
Read More »INVESTIGATION: The pains of pregnant mothers in rural northern Nigeria
Northern Nigeria accounts for a huge percentage of women dying of pregnancy-and-childbirth-related complications in Nigeria, whereas the national maternal mortality ratio for Nigeria is put at 576 deaths per 100,000 live births, maternal deaths for the northeastern and northwestern sub-regions are as high as 1549 and 1024, respectively. …
Read More »Hundreds feared dead in mudslide near Freetown
Hundreds of people are feared dead after a mudslide on the outskirts of Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, officials and witnesses say. Victor Foh, vice president of the West African country, has said many people are still buried underneath the debris. “It is likely that hundreds are lying dead underneath the…
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EXPLAINER | From Cairo to Mombasa: SCoMRA 2025 and Africa’s Push for Health Sovereignty
As Africa prepares for the Seventh Scientific Conference on Medical Product Regulation in Africa …
