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Development Health Advice 

Year of the Nurse and the Midwife highlights ‘backbone’ of health systems

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For this reason, the UN agency and its partners will use the coming year to advocate for greater investment in these crucial health workers.  “Nurses and midwives are the backbone of every health system: in 2020 we’re calling on all countries to invest in nurses and midwives as part of their commitment to health for all,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO Director-General.  The International Year of the Nurse and… Read More
Development Health Advice 

New Year’s Day a reminder of need for action to prevent newborn deaths: UNICEF

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The agency believes 2020’s first baby will be born in Fiji and that globally, over half of all births on 1 January will take place in eight countries: India, China, Nigeria, Pakistan, Indonesia, the United States of America, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Ethiopia.  A warm cuddle against her mother’s skin can be life-saving for a premature baby. ‘Kangaroo… Read More
Entertainment Lifestyle 

How Jaafar’s Social Media Campaign Turns Old Hausa Music Artiste to Millionaire in One Week

Village Reporter
In just one week, a social Media Influencer and investigative journalist, Jaafar Jaafar has raised more than five Million Naira to a renowned old Hausa music artiste, Magajiya Dambatta. Jaafar, who is the publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Daily Nigerian newspaper used his Facebook account to raise awareness on the plight of the 82-year old unsung heroine, who is now blind… Read More
Development Health Advice 

Sub-Saharan Africa faces grave hunger challenges in 2020: UN food relief agency

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According to the WFP 2020 Global Hotspots Report, millions of people in Zimbabwe, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central Sahel region will require life-saving food assistance in the coming months – the sheer scale and complexity of which will stretch the UN food relief agency’s capacity to the limit and require generous donor support for a ramped-up… Read More
Human Rights 

Israel/Palestine war crimes probe ‘momentous step forward’, says UN rights expert

Village Reporter
“Accountability has, until now, been largely missing in action throughout the 52-year-old occupation,” said Michael Lynk, the Special Rapporteur for the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967. On 20 December, ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda announced that she was “satisfied that there is a reasonable basis to proceed with an investigation into the situation in Palestine”.… Read More
Human Rights 

FIRST PERSON: ‘You can’t get paid for staring out of the window’ – How I proved my teacher wrong

Village Reporter
As a boy, Zack Martin’s school teacher told him, he couldn’t get paid for staring out of a window, but the former marine says he proved the teacher wrong by becoming a truck driver and building a successful heavy-load trucking business, Crawler Haulers, in the city of Lafayette in Louisiana.  “I joined the US Marines when I was a young kid and it really made me who I am, as… Read More
Entertainment Lifestyle 

Burna Boy, Rema make Obama’s favourite music of 2019 list – Premium Times

Village Reporter
Burna Boy’s ‘Anybody’, and Rema’s ‘Iron Man’, have made former U.S. president, Barrack Obama’s favourite music of 2019 list. Mr Obama disclosed this on Twitter on Monday and tagged the annual list as a “favourite tradition.” Both musicians are the only Nigerians on the list while their famous tracks were mentioned alongside 32 other songs. Burna Boy’s ‘Anybody’ was featured… Read More
Human Rights 

Continued airstrikes in western Libya ‘utterly unacceptable’, says UN mission chief

Village Reporter
Ghassan Salamé, head of the UN Support Mission in the country, UNSMIL, called for greater civilian protection following the incidents, which occurred in three locations in the west. “We have said it loud and clear that indiscriminate attacks against civilians not only constitute a grave violation of international humanitarian law and human rights law, but also further escalate the conflict… Read More
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