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Polio Scorecard Posted for Africa
Precision Vaccinations
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(Vax-Before-Travel News)In the second quarter of 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) reaffirmed that poliovirus continues to pose a global public health emergency. However, significant progress has been made in the fight against polio within...
Kenya declared free of sleeping sickness: A major milestone in public health
Daily Star
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August 16, 2025
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has validated Kenya as having eliminated human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness, as a public health problem—making it the tenth country to achieve this milestone. HAT is the second...
UNICEF, GAVI, eHealth Africa Boost Maternal and Child Care in Kano with 28 Solar Powered Facilities
Prompt News Online
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August 16, 2025
This week, we marked a major milestone in improving maternal and child healthcare, strengthening vaccine storage, and reducing general healthcare service disruptions with the official handover of 28 fully solar-powered Primary Health Care (PHC)...
African countries that have eliminated sleeping sickness
Star
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Kenya was on August 2025 officially declared free of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness, as a public health problem. The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Friday, effectively making Kenya the tenth...
Women and girls face growing peril in Africa’s Sahel
Baltimore Afro-American - Maryland
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August 16, 2025
By Wayne Campbell The world is becoming increasingly hostile towards women and girls. Sadly, by now, each one of us may know of someone who has been targeted with gender-based violence. What is equally disturbing is the fact that the public...
QC’s multi-service centre in Chad to benefit over 10,000 people
Qatar Tribune
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August 10, 2025
Tribune News Network Doha With support from philanthropists in Qatar, Qatar Charity (QC) has inaugurated a multi-service centre in a neighbourhood in the Chadian capital, N’Djamena. This centre, the first of its kind in the region in terms of...
Qatar Charity inaugurates multi-service center in Chad
Gulf Times
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August 9, 2025
Qatar Charity inaugurated a multi-service center in a neighborhood in the Chadian capital, N'Djamena. The center is the first of its kind in the region in terms of its comprehensiveness and diversity of services. It aims to promote local...
Mpox declining, cholera spreading, says Africa CDC
Peoples Gazette
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August 15, 2025
One year after the World Health Organisation declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern, Africa has made significant progress in controlling the disease. The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, which also...
Anatomy of terror: Daesh expansion in Africa
Sabah
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August 15, 2025
In recent years, Africa has become one of the regions where Daesh is most active. Daesh factions are particularly active in West Africa, East Africa and the Sahel. A look at the 2025 Global Terrorism Index data reveals that the Sahel region stands...
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Northeast Nigeria affected by food insecurity
Fides
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August 11, 2025
Nigerian Red Cross Society Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – According to the International Red Cross, more than 3.3 million people in northeast Nigeria are affected by food insecurity. Most of these people are farmers who suffer from the insecurity in the...
As climate change burdens grow, community mental health alarm bells ring
Mongabay
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August 14, 2025
People worldwide are struggling emotionally with the relentless escalation of the climate crisis, and reports show that climate change-related threats to mental health and well-being are increasing. But this story goes beyond statistics to look at...
Top 10 African countries with the least improvement in government balance
Business Insider Africa
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August 14, 2025
When this equilibrium weakens year after year, the consequences are severe and far-reaching. A deteriorating general government balance, whether caused by dwindling income, excessive expenditure, or bad fiscal planning, undermines a country's...
Sudan cholera outbreak kills 40 in a week as health centres overwhelmed
The Guardian
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August 14, 2025
The “worst cholera outbreak in years” has killed at least 40 people in the last week in Sudan, according to the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières. Overwhelmed medical centres are resorting to treating patients on mattresses on the floor,...
AP Strange SummaryBrief at 2:02 p.m. EDT
The Porterville Recorder - California
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Don't fret: the air guitar world champion is about to be crowned in Finland OULU, Finland (AP) — Passionate performers are lining up in Finland to pluck musical honors out of thin air. This year’s Air Guitar World Championships reach their climax...
AUDA-NEPAD CEO calls for Presidential Champion to accelerate Africa's water access as she is appointed to Global Water
African Business
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August 13, 2025
Speaking at the AU-AIP Africa Water Investment Summit in Cape Town, AUDA-NEPAD CEO H.E. Nardos Bekele-Thomas delivered a compelling case for treating water as critical economic infrastructure while proposing the appointment of a Presidential...
When powering the Global South, profit shouldn't be the primary motive
The National News
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To truly power the future of the Global South, we must start by shifting how we see it, not as a zone of risk, but as a frontier of growth, resilience and human capital. Across Africa, Asia and beyond, a quiet transformation is under way. New...
This is how Africa is racing to halve its electricity access gap by 2030
Independent (Uganda)
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August 13, 2025
Nigeria is leading the way to make Mission 300 a reality. It’s one of Africa’s boldest electrification drives yet. The Mission aims to connect 300 million people in Africa by 2030 through national reforms, regional coordination, real-time delivery...
Strengthening Public Investment in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa
The European Sting
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August 13, 2025
(Credit: Unsplash) This article is published in association with IMF. The IMF, with financial support from the Governments of Japan and Germany, and in collaboration with regional technical assistance centers (AFRITACs Central and West), organized...
Sexual health is an extra struggle for women with disabilities
Independent (Uganda)
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August 12, 2025
Findings from 10 African countries, including Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya in East Africa ANALYSIS | OBASANJO BOLARINWA, ALI MOHAMMED & CLIFFORD OBBY ODIMEGWU | Even after more than three decades of global efforts to promote inclusive sexual and...
Africa’s crisis is Europe’s too
Unherd
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August 7, 2025
In an era when “crisis” is the word on everyone’s lips, there are still few places as crisis-stricken as the Horn of Africa, where war, drought, a booming population and a dearth of economic opportunities are making life unbearable for millions....