Month: April 2025

 This year’s World Health Day theme, Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures, highlights the urgent need to end preventable maternal and newborn deaths. Around 300,000 women die due to pregnancy and childbirth complications each year, while millions of babies are stillborn and two million die within their first month of life. The crisis is most severe in low-income countries, where access to safe surgery is often out of reach due to financial […]

 The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) and the Bank of Africa Tanzania (BOAT) have signed a $7.5 million trade finance transaction guarantee facility to boost trade finance activities of the Bank of Africa in Tanzania. Under this facility, the African Development Bank will provide a guarantee of up to 100% to confirming banks against non-payment risks arising from letters of credit and similar trade finance instruments issued by the Bank of […]

 The agony experienced by mothers during childbirth evokes sorrowful memories for Mrs. Atto Christine Lino, a midwife in South Sudan. Mrs. Lino, a 28-year-old midwife, working at Gurei Primary Health Care Centre in Juba, highlights the severe challenges mothers go through while delivering babies in South Sudan. “It is always a very painful experience, working with mothers and witnessing the immense pain they endure during childbirth, said Lino. “Some manage […]

 Seychelles and Egypt signed a Visa Waiver Agreement for diplomatic and Official passport holders during the weekend in Cairo, Egypt. This was on the margin of a two-day official visit of Foreign Affairs and Tourism Minister, Mr. Sylvestre Radegonde at the invitation of his Egyptian counterpart, H. E Badr Abdelatty, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Emigration and Expatriates Affairs from 5th to 6th April 2025. During a bilateral meeting, the two parties discussed […]

 The decades of brutal civil war that ravaged South Sudan left behind a terrible legacy of land littered by landmines, cluster munitions, and unexploded ordnances. Since 2004, more than 5,000 people have been killed by explosions from these devices. However, significant strides have been made to tackle this deadly threat, with the United Nations Mine Action Service in South Sudan (UNMAS) destroying more than 1.2 million unexploded ordnances, releasing over […]

 Today at Al-Ittihadiya Palace, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi received President of France, Emmanuel Macron, who is on an official high-level visit to Egypt. An official reception ceremony was held for the French President, the national anthems were played, and the guard of honor was inspected. Spokesman for the Presidency, Ambassador Mohamed El-Shennawy, said President El-Sisi and French President Macron held a bilateral session of talks, followed by an expanded meeting attended […]

 NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman of the African Energy Chamber (AEC)  (www.EnergyChamber.org), has called for greater utilization of African financial solutions to address the continent’s $15.7 billion infrastructure deficit. With these sources of capital, the continent stands to maximize the production, processing and distribution of local oil and gas resources amid efforts to make energy poverty history by 2030. Speaking during an event organized by the African Refiners&Distributors Association (ARDA) in […]