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Development Health Advice 

UN health agency urges support for new COVID-19 origins studies

Global Author
The move, announced late on Thursday, comes after a joint report was issued in March by WHO and China into the origins of the coronavirus. .@WHO calls for all governments to depoliticize the situation and cooperate to accelerate the #COVID19 origins studies, and importantly to work together to develop a common framework for future emerging pathogens of pandemic potential. —… Read More
Africa Investments 

International Youth Day: How winners of the Bank’s AgriPitch competition are helping to transform Africa’s food system

Elwin Mandowa,
As the world observes International Youth Day, Africa is producing a growing number of young entrepreneurs who are adopting new ideas to bring more affordable, quality food from farm to fork. This year’s theme is “Transforming Food Systems: Youth Innovation for Human and Planetary Health”, putting the spotlight on the role of young people in achieving the success of such… Read More
Africa Investments 

“Last Mile” Connectivity Project lights up lives in Kenya

Elwin Mandowa,
At 6 am, Jacqueline Mwendo arrives at the dispensary of Olosho-Oibor, a remote village in Kajiado County south of Nairobi in Kenya. Even at first light, a dozen patients are waiting for Mwendo, a nurse who has been singlehandedly running the small health centre in this vulnerable region for two years. The burden on her has eased in the past… Read More
Africa Investments 

African Development Bank Coding for Employment program marks milestone: 130,000 users across Africa

Elwin Mandowa,
On International Youth Day, the African Development Bank announces the enrolment of 130,000 users in its Coding for Employment digital skills program. The milestone comes as Coding for Employment works to equip African youth with information and communication technology, entrepreneurship and soft-skills training to compete in a digital economy. The program’s online platforms offer in-demand technical courses such as web development,… Read More
Development Health Advice 

WHO announces three new drugs for latest COVID-19 ‘Solidarity’ clinical trials

Global Author
The therapies — artesunate, imatinib and infliximab — will be tested on hospitalized COVID-19 patients in 52 countries under the Solidarity PLUS programme.   WHO’s #COVID19 Solidarity clinical trial enters a new phase – Solidarity PLUS – with three new candidate drugs:-artesunate-imatinib-infliximab 👉 https://t.co/K6tk22NnFf — World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) August 11, 2021 There have been more than 203 million… Read More
Development East Africa 

What does education look like in Kenya’s Samburu tribe?

Village Reporter
The Samburu people, who live in the north-central region of Kenya, are a sub-tribe of the Maasai. They lead a traditional, semi-nomadic lifestyle. Traditionally they would move from one place to another every few months. In recent years, however, they began to permanently settle in areas where educational facilities can be found. That has been the case with the Samburu… Read More
Development Health Advice 

COVID-19 vaccine equality, ‘most pressing issue of our times’ – UN chief

Global Author
 Addressing the gathering in China via video message, Secretary-General António Guterres pushed for a Global Vaccine Plan to combat the global pandemic that has claimed more than four million lives.    “This is a matter of fairness and justice – but it’s also critical to avoid the emergence of further variants that can resist the current vaccines and undermine national vaccination efforts”, he said.  The inaugural gathering marks an intensification in global vaccine diplomacy to… Read More
Africa Investments 

Sénégal : Le président Macky Sall inaugure la troisième usine de traitement d’eau potable à Keur Momar Sarr construite avec le soutien de la Banque…

Elwin Mandowa,
Sénégal : Le président Macky Sall inaugure la troisième usine de traitement d’eau potable à Keur Momar Sarr construite avec le soutien de la Banque africaine de développement | African Development Bank – Building today, a better Africa tomorrow <!– African Development Bank Group Read More
Development Green Tech 

Sustainable Development through Mother Tongue and Multilingualism

Village Reporter
By Yossef Ben-Meir and Ellen Hernandez When community meetings are held to determine priority development projects in villages, in neighborhoods, in schools, in agricultural fields—wherever they may take place—we want to speak the language that is spoken there, spoken every day. The idea of a person or a community of people exploring what they most want in their lives should… Read More
Development Health Advice 

WHO calls for moratorium on COVID-19 booster jabs

Global Author
“I understand the concern of all Governments to protect their people from the Delta variant, but we cannot accept countries that have already used most of the global supply of vaccines using even more of it, while the world’s most vulnerable people remain unprotected”, said Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization (WHO).  Equity first  During his weekly press conference, Tedros recalled that in May he… Read More
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