Month: August 2024

 Desperate wails rent the air and people shouted urgent instructions as they tried to save more people, tragically including children, from being swept away by the raging waters of MathareRiver. The River had burst its banks in the middle of the night catching residents of the surrounding informal settlement unaware and completely upending their homes, and, for many, their lives. This was the scene in Mathare, an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya's capital city, in the wee hours of April 23rd 2024. Isabella Nzioki, a Community Health Promoter (CHP) and resident of Mathare, has been working with […]

 Strength and leadership most often emerge from the most challenging and vulnerable places. For Deheve Machazo, witnessing the dire conditions for women and girls in an internal displacement site was a turning point. “I can't stay silent while women and girls are in the dark about contraception. I’ve decided to take action to change the community's mentality,” she explained. At the Kigonze displacement site in the Democratic Republic of Congo, […]

 The President of the Republic of Liberia, His Excellency Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr., has congratulated the Government and People of the Republic of Hungary on the occasion marking its National Day anniversary on August 20, 2024. St. Stephen's Day is celebrated in Hungary on August 20th each year. It is also known as “Foundation Day “and “Constitution Day” and is the official state holiday of Hungary. In the Message to His Excellency Mr. […]

 “We started today with a moment of silence in recognition of World Humanitarian Day. We aspire to honor the commitment of humanitarian workers who have fallen in the line of work through our continued efforts together in Switzerland to reopen all major arteries for food and medicine to reach the millions of people starving and facing acute hunger inside Sudan. Since April 2023, at least 22 aid workers have been […]

 President Yoweri Museveni on Sunday, 18 August 2024 officially opened the 21st Edition of the Federation of East Africa Secondary Schools Sports Association (FEASSA) Games. The games, which will run up to 27 August 2024 are being hosted by Bukedea Comprehensive School and Amus College School in Bukedea District, making it the seventh time Uganda is hosting these intercontinental secondary games. This year's FEASSA Games have brought together over 3,000 […]

 Representatives of the African Risk Capacity (ARC) Group and the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) have presented a cheque to the government of Malawi for an insurance payout of $11.2 million, to support the country’s recovery from a devastating drought arising from a weather condition known as El-Nino. The presentation was made at a ceremony presided over by Malawi president Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera, in Lilongwe, the capital, on August 2. […]

 UNAIDS is calling on the international community to respond swiftly and decisively to the World Health Organization’s declaration of the mpox outbreak in several African countries as a public health emergency of international concern. The move came after the Africa Centre for Disease Control made a similar declaration for the region. “The emergence of a new and more contagious variant of mpox, and the devastating impact it is having on […]