WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was reappointed to a second five-year term on Tuesday by the U.N. health agency’s member countries. No other candidate challenged Tedros for the post amid the ongoing difficulties of responding to the devastating coronavirus pandemic. “I am really grateful, I am very humbled for your confidence and trust,” Tedros said.…
Today, May 25, the continent celebrates Africa Day, which marks the anniversary of the signing of the OAU (Organization of African Unity) agreements which evolved into the present day African Union (AU). On that day, May 25 1963, leaders of 30 of the 32 independent African states signed the founding charter of the organization in…
Summary The technology involves a smartphone app that pairs an algorithm with a drone and satellite data using geospatial artificial intelligence to identify locations of previously unknown mosquito breeding habitats, for treatment. Christened ‘Seek and Destroy’, the programme has been in trial in Uganda, and will be expanded to infectious areas in Kenya and Rwanda…
Summary BoT said most prices of commodities “save for Robusta coffee” increased during the quarter year-on-year compared with March 2021. Prices of agricultural commodities increased from December 2021 due to “persistent supply disruptions, increasing demand for food from neighbouring countries and low or delayed short rain season harvests.” Food inflation, which stood at 3.6 percent…
Summary Parliament’s committee on trade recommended that the memorandum of understanding signed on February 10 between Uganda government and UVCCL be cancelled on grounds it is unconstitutional, illegal and not enforceable in law. Although the lawmakers rejected the President’s proposal to review the MoU, analysts argue that Parliament’s resolutions are only advisory and maybe shunted…
Summary Cyclones may have contaminated food and water in Mozambique. Since the beginning of this year, the southern African country – along with the neighbouring ones – has been hit by five cyclones and the situation has left the population in need of large-scale humanitarian aid. Mozambique is one of the poorest countries in the…
Summary The decision came as the continent, a net importer of food, faces rising prices of products after the main suppliers—Ukraine and Russia—went to war earlier this year, disrupting production and supply to the global market. According to the Bank, Africa’s demand for food means that the continent faces a shortage of up to 30…
At least 50 people were killed by militants on Sunday around the town of Rann in Nigeria’s Borno state, in the country’s northeastern tip near the border with Cameroon, witnesses told Reuters by phone on Monday. Since 2009, Nigeria‘s northeast and Borno state in particular have been the centre of an insurgency led by the militant Islamist…
The Rwandan army says several civilians have been injured in cross-border shelling by troops from the Democratic Republic of Congo. It said it had asked a regional team of military observers, the Expanded Joint Verification Mechanism, to conduct an urgent investigation. Social embed from twitter Tensions between the two countries have increased since March, when…
The United States has issued an advisory warning American companies and individuals from doing business with Sudanese state-owned and military-controlled companies. It said there was a reputational risk of doing business with these companies amid a deterioration in the human rights situation in Sudan. The State Department said that while some of these risks were…