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Stakeholders to Take Stock of Progress in the African Region GENEVA,Switzerland, April 20 2017, -/African Media Agency (AMA)/- With a drastic reduction in neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) during the past five years, the World Health Organization (WHO), donors, non-governmental organizations and government representatives of endemic countries are meeting in Geneva,…

The US has brought together defence chiefs from 40 African countries. A meeting is taking place in Germany at the headquarters of the United States Africa Command – or AFRICOM – which was set up 10 years ago. Its mission is to foster “security, stablity and prosperity”. It says it…

Dr. Matshidiso Rebecca Moeti, Director of the WHO Regional Office for Africa GENEVA, Switzerland, 19 April 2017,-/African Media Agency/- Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) are preventable infectious diseases that put approximately 1.5 billion people in 149 countries at risk, including 500 million children. Africa accounts for 40 percent of the global…

Plus de 5.000 terminaux FAMOCO ont été déployés dans le cadre de la première phase. PARIS, France, le 19 avril 2017,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- FAMOCO, le leader des terminaux professionnels et sécurisés, annonce un partenariat commercial majeur avec l’opérateur Orange Cameroun. Un choix stratégique pour augmenter l’efficacité du réseau de…

United Nations investigators have found 17 new mass graves in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in an area that has seen fighting between soldiers and members of a local armed group, according to the UN rights chief. Zeid Raad Al Hussein, the UN high commissioner for human rights, called the…

The United Nations says 16 staff members held hostage at a UN camp in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been released unharmed. The UN peacekeeping department said in a statement late on Tuesday that “the camp is quiet and under full control” of its peacekeepers. Unarmed…

Almost 700 people have been killed during violence in Ethiopia since August 2016, a government-sponsored commission has said, bringing the total death toll since the unrest began in late 2015 to more than 900. Ethiopia declared six months of emergency rule in October after almost  a year of anti-government violent…

Esther Afua Ocloo launched her entrepreneurial career as a teenager in the 1930s on less than a dollar. She quickly became one of Ghana‘s leading entrepreneurs and was an inspiration around the world. Known as “Auntie Ocloo”, Esther dedicated her life to helping others like her succeed. In addition to her own…