Members from a total of 400 households along with staff and patients of Nyarurama Health Center in Nyarurama village, Ntongwe sector in Ruhango District on Friday 23 were celebrating as they all got connected
Malawi has launched a new generation of typhoid vaccines making it the first country in Africa using the vaccines to fight typhoid infections in children. Four-year-old Golden Kondowe was the first
Good news about the environment is rare these days, but in Tanzania there are signs that local wildlife conservation efforts can effectively protect the natural resources that provide the lion's share
Much has been written about the ongoing drought and critical water shortages in the city of Cape Town. Residents are bracing themselves for Day Zero – the moment at which most of the city's domestic taps
After becoming the world’s first airport to be fully powered by solar energy, Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) in India is set to help Ghana take this clean energy path as well. According
Mulanje — An effort to shore up water to Blantyre is drawing protests from people who say "we can't serve Blantyre before we serve ourselves" With increasingly prolonged droughts threatening worsening
Nierteti — Two people died of 'watery diarrhoea', suspected to be cholera, in Central Darfur's Jebel Marra over the weekend. 29 new cases were recorded. The isolation ward at Nierteti Hospital reported
Members of the North Darfur parliament has urged the state authorities to develop plans to ease the acute shortage of drinking water in the capital El Fasher. The parliament's Services Committee demanded
Lassa fever has continued to spread in Nigeria with 913 suspected cases and 73 deaths in 17 states this year with Edo and Ondo bearing 75 per cent of the burden. The acute viral haemorrhagic illness of
Agriculture plays crucial role in the Ghanaian economy, and provides the main source of food, income and employment to their rural populations. Around 65% of the country's workforce work in the sector
Ado-Ekiti — Rainstorm has destroyed over 200 houses within the first two months in Ekiti State this year. The General Manager of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Jide Borode in a statement
Opuwo — The drought that has ravaged the Kunene Region for at least seven consecutive years now, continues to affect communities in the region who depend on agriculture for their livelihoods and have since
Government has issued a 21-day ultimatum to residents of 11 villages that have encroached on Lubigi wetland located northwest of Kampala. Lubigi wetland is one of the many wetlands facing extinction
Luanda - At least USD 44 million is the amount made available by the Global Fund to finance actions to control malaria, HIV / AIDS and tuberculosis in the country, said Monday in Luanda, its coordinator
Blantyre District Council says it intends to plant over 30 million tree seedlings before the end of this year’s national tree planting season. Blantyre District Commissioner (DC), Bennet Nkasala made
Government will soon embark on a pilot project of planting solid bamboo to help curb deforestation in Kazungula district. Lands and Natural Resources Minister, Jean Kapata disclosed this when she visited
JOHANNESBURG - AGRI-SA, the South African agricultural industry association, has raised concern at government’s plans to expropriate white owned land without compensation. Reacting to the State of the
Windhoek-Due to heavy flooding experienced in the Zambezi, many schools in the Kabbe flood-prone areas have been cut off – leaving learners and teachers exposed to harsh conditions, as they have to cross
Japan has given a grant of US$800 000 (approximately N$9.5 million) to the government of Namibia to help address the health needs of the most vulnerable citizens in the seven northern regions affected
Hundreds of thousands of people who sought shelter in Cameroon after fleeing violence will go hungry unless funds are made available, the United Nations deputy emergencies chief said. Ursula Mueller
