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Lifestyle Nigeria News and Headlines 

TB Joshua’s Meeting in Nazareth Is Rebranding Africa’s Image Abroad…

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“TB JOSHUA’S MEETING IN NAZARETH IS REBRANDING AFRICA’S IMAGE ABROAD…” In the last week, Israeli media has been awash with news of the controversial visit of Nigerian cleric T.B. Joshua to Nazareth. Initial news of the visit ignited a furore among apprehensive religious leaders from both the Muslim and Orthodox Christian sector but the tone among locals has emphatically shifted… Read More
Kingdom of Eswatini Lifestyle Tourism 

Eswatini gets first UNESCO Biosphere Reserve

Village Reporter
The Kingdom of Eswatini is celebrating its first entry in UNESCO’s World Network of Biosphere Reserves. UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme have just added 18 new sites in 12 countries to the World Network of Biosphere Reserves, and Kingdom of Eswatini has joined the MAB Network this year with the inscription of its first site, the Lubombo Biosphere Reserve.… Read More

Ol Malo

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GOING BACK 3 GENERATIONS COLIN AND ROCKY FRANCOMBE WERE BORN, RAISED, AND EDUCATED IN KENYA They have made their lives and raised their family in the beautiful wild ranching lands of Laikipia, Kenya. Along with their Samburu neighbors they decided to share their dream. Their first cottage, otherwise known as ‘Number 1’, was built in 1992 and the Samburu played… Read More
Lifestyle Nigeria News and Headlines 

Humanism and Transformation of Medical Missions in Nigeria

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By Leo Igwe Humanism stands for change, for socio-cultural change and progress. And in Nigeria`s health sector, some change is imminent. The humanist movement is set to transform the landscape of medical and health care delivery because the medical sector is one area where religious privilege is quite pronounced. On June 23, 2019, the Humanist Association of Nigeria (HAN) recorded… Read More
Development Health Advice 

Misinformation and growing distrust on vaccines, ‘dangerous as a disease’ says UNICEF chief 

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“Misinformation about vaccines is as dangerous as a disease”, said UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore. “It spreads fast and poses an imminent threat to public health”.  Over the last three decades, the world has seen significant improvements in the health and well-being of children, with vaccinations having contributed to a dramatic decrease in under-five deaths, according to UNICEF.    And… Read More
Development Health Advice 

Friday’s Daily Brief: More climate action says Guterres, migrant children dangers, Ebola fight, record-setting weather

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Amidst ‘high political tension’, UN chief appeals to G20 leaders for stronger commitment to climate action, economic cooperation  The annual G20 summit of leaders from the largest and fastest-growing economies, got underway on Friday in Osaka, Japan, against a backdrop of what UN Secretary-General António Guterres described as “a moment of high political tension”.  “We have global warming, but we… Read More
Development Health Advice 

Ebola fight ongoing amid evidence of ‘several massacres’ in DR Congo’s Ituri province

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In an update on the situation in Ituri and North Kivu provinces, nearly 11 months after the outbreak began, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported 2,284 cases of infection so far, and 1,540 deaths. At the same time, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, announced that a “robust” probe found that 117 people had been killed in “several massacres” involving… Read More
Human Rights 

Thursday’s Daily Brief: dire living conditions in Idlib, migrants at US southern border, end in sight for trachoma, Human Rights Council

Village Reporter
Syria’s Idlib ‘on the brink’ of a nightmare urge humanitarian chiefs, launching global solidarity campaign The heads of 11 global humanitarian organizations warned on Thursday that the embattled rebel-held province of Idlib in Syria, stands on the brink of disaster, with three million civilian lives at risk, including one million children. In a direct video address to launch a worldwide… Read More
Human Rights 

‘Words must never be met with violence’ urges UN, following Taliban threat to journalists  

Village Reporter
Noting that “words must never be met with violence”, Tadamichi Yamamoto, Special Representative for Afghanistan and head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), called on the threat to be rescinded, adding that “the only acceptable challenge to words is to advance a better argument”.   Mr. Yamamoto underlined that “international humanitarian law – which applies to all parties to the conflict in Afghanistan, including the… Read More
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