Month: November 2025

  Eswatini faces one of the highest burdens of cervical cancer globally. In response, the World Health Organization (WHO) Country Office has supported the Ministry of Health in the development and ongoing implementation of the Cervical Cancer Elimination Acceleration Plan (2024–2028). This plan aims to achieve the 90–70–90 targets by 2030, in alignment with the WHO Global Strategy to Accelerate the Elimination of Cervical Cancer as a Public Health Problem. “The […]

  As West Africa marks 50 years of integration and shared progress, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is reaffirming its leadership in promoting regional trade, innovation, and sustainable investment through the ECOWAS Trade and Investment Forum&Exhibition (ECOTIFE) — a flagship initiative at the 2025 Lagos International Trade Fair (LITF), taking place from 7–16 November 2025. The opening ceremony on Friday 7th November 2025 at Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos, […]

  A new climate resilience schools programme launched in South Sudan will help more than 200,000 school children to get an education as the country battles repeated floods, droughts and heatwaves, Save the Children said.   Save the Children, with funding from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), has launched a US$17 million project to strengthen climate resilience through education across South Sudan. The Building the […]

  Enlit Africa and Water Security Africa are pleased to announce the official launch of the Call for Speakers for the 2026 edition, taking place from 19–21 May 2026 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC). This flagship event serves as the continent’s premier gathering point for thought leaders, technology providers, regulators, financiers and innovators across Africa’s energy and water value chains. Africa’s power and water sectors are undergoing […]

  Driven by concern for the safety and wellbeing of families displaced from Nagero county in Western Equatoria, this week, peacekeepers from the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) travelled more than 70 kilometers to remote Bazia, a payam in South Sudan’s Western Bahr El Ghazal. An eruption of conflict in mid-October 2025 between the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) and opposition forces forced more than 16,000 people to flee […]

  It has been 14 years since South Sudan officially obtained independence. But it has been 26 years since Angelina Wael left her home to seek safety in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan.  Today, her search for safety has come full circle and she is, once again, in her home country after fleeing the ongoing crisis in neighboring Sudan. Having grown up in Bentiu, she left soon after delivering her […]

  APO Group (www.APO-opa.com), the leading award-winning, pan-African communications consultancy and press release distribution service, is proud to announce that its Chief Executive Officer, Bas Wijne, will deliver a keynote address at this week’s  Africa Tech Festival and serve as an official judge at the Africa Tech Festival Awards.  As the continent’s premier gathering of innovators, investors, and policymakers, the Africa Tech Festival showcases the organisations, people, and ideas driving […]

  African Development Bank Group (https://www.AfDB.org) President Dr Sidi Ould Tah and Luxembourg’s Finance Minister, Gilles Roth, have pledged to deepen cooperation as preparations advance for the seventeenth replenishment of the African Development Fund (ADF-17), the Bank Group’s concessional financing window. The two leaders met on the sidelines of the 2025 World Bank and International Monetary Fund Annual Meetings in Washington, D.C. It was their first official bilateral meeting since […]