Month: September 2024

 Health Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Deborah Mlongo Barasa, has commended the Global Fund for its significant impact on Kenya’s fight against AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB), and Malaria over the past 21 years.  Speaking during a meeting with the Global Fund delegation led by Mr. Linden Morrison, Department Head of Global Fund High Impact Africa 2, and Mr. Paul MacCarrick, Senior Portfolio Manager, Dr. Barasa highlighted the crucial role the Fund has played […]

 On 9 September 2024, Mrs. Eksiri Pintaruchi, Permanent Secretary for Foreign Affairs, presided over and delivered the inaugural address of the 62nd Annual Session of Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization (AALCO) at Bangkok Marriott Marquis Queen’s Park, Bangkok.  In her remarks, the Permanent Secretary highlighted the role of Asia and Africa in advancing the development of international law, especially on key topics such as climate change, law of the sea, and […]

 Libyan authorities are failing to provide adequate compensation and reconstruction support a year after devastating floods wrecked the eastern Libyan city of Derna and left thousands dead or missing, Human Rights Watch said today. Armed groups have yet to face accountability for emergency response failures that prevented people from seeking safety.  The slow recovery and lack of a national response plan is having a severe effect on the economic rights of survivors, including […]

 Increased rates of acute malnutrition in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has put 4.5 million children aged under five and over 3.7 million pregnant and breastfeeding women at heightened risk of contracting and dying of mpox, Save the Children said. The latest figures on malnutrition from the Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) – the leading international authority on food insecurity – come as DRC is at the epicentre of an outbreak of […]

 On 9 September 2024, Ylva Johansson, European Commissioner for Home Affairs and Badr Abdelatty, Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Emigration and Expatriates, met in Cairo and they discussed ways to further deepen the cooperation between the European Union and Egypt in the field of migration. They highlighted the successful longstanding partnership in the field of migration which is currently being strengthened following the signature of the Joint Political Declaration on […]

 “Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.”  – Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. Education and literacy are fundamental human rights.  They open doors to economic opportunities, break cycles of poverty, and enhance personal and societal growth.  They also facilitate effective communication and participation in democratic processes, strengthening community engagement and cohesion. Unfortunately, South Sudan has one of the worst literacy rates in the world. Approximately 70 percent of […]

 TECNO (www.TECNO-Mobile.com), a leading innovative technology brand, is proud to extend its partnership with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to support UNHCR’s global primary education programme. The partnership, first established in 2020, is dedicated to providing high-quality, protective education for African refugee children and young people. Over the past four years, the partnership has reached 17,370 refugee children and 40 refugee DAFI scholars, as well as provided support to teachers […]

 The Government of India has extended humanitarian assistance to the Government and people of the Republic of Malawi, Government and people of the Republic of Zambia and Government and people of the Republic of Zimbabwe to address the food deficit which has occurred due to severe drought caused by El Nino phenomenon. Shipments of food grains were despatched from the Nhava Sheva port for Malawi (1000 MT Rice); Zambia (first […]