December 17, 2021
Africa: Can Tobacco Harm Reduction Make its Way Through a Powerful and Complex Cultural, Political and Economic System?
The E-cigarette summit – science, regulation, and public health, took place on the 7th and 8th of December, 2021. Read more »
December 16, 2021
Africa: Tobacco Harm Reduction: Will There Ever Be a Viable Consensus?
The E-cigarette summit – science, regulation, and public health, took place virtually on the 7th and 8th of December, 2021. Scientists, policymakers and public health… Read more »
Africa: Africa's Path to Recovery in an Uncertain World
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva visited Democratic Republic of Congo and Senegal last week, where she met with the current and upcoming chairs… Read more »
December 15, 2021
West Africa: #AfricaACTs On Education - The Future Of West And Central African Children Is Being Shaped In Today's Schools
December 10, 2021
Africa: Everyone's Health Depends on Stable Funding for the World Health Organization
Imagine being told by your government that you need to build a new tertiary-care hospital. But then the authorities give you only 20 percent of the budget – little more than… Read more »
November 28, 2021
Africa: Sixteen Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Launched in Nigeria
Violence against women and girls is among the most widespread, and devastating human rights violations in the world, but much it is often unreported due to impunity, shame and… Read more »
November 30, 2021
Africa: Southern Africa Should Be Thanked, Not Punished for Detecting New Variant - WHO, UN
The World Health Organization says that South Africa and Botswana should be thanked for detecting, sequencing, and reporting the new Covid-19 variant, known as Omicron and not… Read more »
November 25, 2021
Africa: Historic World Heath Assembly Session Offers New Chance to Prepare for Future Pandemics
Five million lives worldwide have already been lost to Covid, and the WHO/ACT-A grimly predict another 5 million more lives will be lost in months to come. Alarmingly also,… Read more »
Africa: Commitments Signed to Build an Electric Battery Industry in the DRC
The DRC-Africa Business Forum 2021 kicked off with a bang on Wednesday, November 24 in the Congolese capital. A series of firm commitments have been signed for the development of a… Read more »
November 23, 2021
Congo-Kinshasa: The Pitfalls to be Overcome for the Integration of the Congolese in the Value Chain of the Electric Battery Industry
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has all the potential to become an industrial hub for batteries and electric vehicles. To achieve this, the country of Félix Antoine… Read more »
November 24, 2021
Africa: WHO's Special Envoys Call for Support for Pandemic Preparedness Treaty
Almost two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, several countries are witnessing a fifth wave of high transmission. Low- and middle-income countries are seeing substantial numbers of… Read more »
November 18, 2021
South Sudan: Healing Trauma and Peacebuilding Go Hand-in-Hand for South Sudan
Welcome to AllAfrica's Silence The Guns series where we focus on peacebuilding on the continent. This is Juanita Williams and today we take closer look at what the road to… Read more »
Mozambique: Treating Root Causes of Northern Conflict Key to Guns Being Silenced
Four years ago in October, attacks by a few dozen young men on three police stations in Mocimboa da Praia - a district of Cabo Delgado province in northeastern Mozambique -… Read more »
Nigeria: Police Are Failing Rape Victims - Amnesty
The Nigerian police are failing rape victims by not supporting and investigating the crime when reported, rights groups Amnesty International has said. Read more »
South Sudan: South Sudan Still Struggling Towards Peace
In January 2011 the people of South Sudan voted in a referendum to secede from Sudan, putting behind them two civil wars which had consumed 39 of the 55 years of Sudanese… Read more »
Africa: Let's Use the Covid-19 Wakeup Call to Help Women Rise From the Nightmare of Cervical Cancer
Four African First Ladies and Tedros of WHO issue urgent appeal for health equity Read more »
November 15, 2021
Africa: COP26 - A Huge Disappointment for Vulnerable Countries #AfricaClimateCrisis
Countries of the global South, which are already facing the worst impacts of the climate emergency, have expressed their deep disappointment about how the COP26 talks have… Read more »
November 11, 2021
Africa: Why Taking Climate Action Supports Global Health and Saves Money #AfricaClimateCrisis
What does health have to do with climate change? If you stop to think about it: Everything. Read more »
November 09, 2021
Africa: Peacebuilding Needs More Women, Youth - What's Holding Them Back?
AllAfrica's Silence The Guns series focuses on peacebuilding on the continent. Today we take a closer look at the role of women and youth in peacebuilding in Africa. There's no… Read more »
November 08, 2021
Africa: Money For Something - Financing a Global Climate Plan
The jury is still out on whether world leaders are ready to turn words into actions at COP26. At stake is life as we’ve known it for millennia. Read more »
November 05, 2021
Sudan: Army Chief Orders Detained Ministers Released Amid Global Pressure
Top army general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has ordered the release of four civilian ministers who were detained when he led a military coup in which Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok was… Read more »
Ethiopia: International Pressure for a Ceasefire in Ethiopia Grows
With Tigray forces advancing towards Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa and the humanitarian crises escalating, UN Secretary-General António Guterres in a Tweet on Wednesday… Read more »
November 03, 2021
Ethiopia: UN Rights Body Blames All Sides For Human Rights Abuses in Tigray Conflict
As the conflict between Ethiopia's federal government and the northern Tigray region escalates, the United Nations human rights chief has blamed all parties involved in the… Read more »
Africa: Tobacco Control Vs Tobacco Harm Reduction - A Never-Ending War?
The latest Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction report was launched on October 27th, 2021. Titled: “ Fighting the last war: the WHO and International Tobacco Control , its… Read more »
October 29, 2021
Africa: How Climate Change Will Hit Small Farmers - And How Adaptation Helps #AfricaClimateCrisis
Rising temperatures and a decline in rainfall across eight Southern and East African countries are set to slash the production of important food crops in the region by 2050, says a… Read more »