Tobacco firms 'hamper anti-smoking push'
The tobacco industry is hampering efforts to introduce life-saving interventions in low and middle-income countries, according to a report by the World Health Organization. Countries covering two-thirds
Africa
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Ethiopia: Call for Dwindling Deforestation Pace
The deforestation activities have been outpacing the reforestation effort in turn it is costing the nation greatly, said an official from the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. The
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Liberia: Senate Receives National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority Bill
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has submitted to the Liberian Senate for enactment a Bill titled: An Act to Amend Title 23, Natural Resources Law, Liberian Code Revised by Repealing Subchapter B, Fish
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Uganda: Chinese Launch Fund to Protect Lake Victoria
Kampala — Save the Wild Fund, a Chinese not-for-profit environmental conservation organisation, has started operations to encourage companies to fund conservation of Lake Victoria. Speaking at the launch
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East Africa: Poor Rains- Hunger Worsened, Crops Scorched, Livestock Dead
Rome — Poor rains across East Africa have worsened hunger and left crops scorched, pastures dry and thousands of livestock dead, the United Nations food and agriculture agency has warned in a new alert.
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Crop-eating caterpillar to worsen South Sudan's hunger woes- U.N.
- An infestation of fall armyworm, a crop-eating caterpillar that has ravaged fields across Africa, will deepen hunger in famine-threatened South Sudan, a U.N. official said on Wednesday. Outbreaks
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Cholera kills 4 in Kenyan capital since May, government shuts hotels
A cholera outbreak in the Kenyan capital has killed four people since May and the government has shut down a three-star hotel and a popular restaurant there to control its spread, the health minister said
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$274bn needed yearly to reach global health targets – WHO
At least 274 billion U.S. dollars in annual increase of investment is needed to reach the UN health targets in 67 low- and middle-income countries that account for the world’s 75 per cent population, according
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55 Unsafe Sachet Water Producing Companies Closed in Monrovia
Monrovia - As part of it efforts in ensuring that water consumed by citizens is free of contamination, the National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL) has shutdown 55 mineral water companies, following
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Ghana loses US$290 million to poor sanitation annually- Report
Ghana loses about 290 million U.S. dollars and 79 million U.S. dollars annually to poor sanitation and open defecation respectively, state-owned Ghana News Agency (GNA) reported here Tuesday. David