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Africa's Health Goals Anchored in New Public Health Order Africa's Centre for Disease Control and Prevention launched its strategic plan in 2023 to enhance surveillance, emergency response, and infectious disease prevention. Among the public health challenges that the new public health order addresses is the

Tensions Mount As Cape Town Farmers Face Relocation The area that the government wants to move them to is already occupied
Plans to relocate informal farmers occupying state owned land in Eerste River have hit a brick wall. The farmers are concerned that they will be moved to sites that other people are already occupying which could cause further ten...

Niger and Nigeria Renew Security Cooperation After Post-Coup Fallout Nigeria and Niger have signed an agreement to enhance their security cooperation, despite lingering tensions between the neighbouring West African countries following Niger's coup a year ago.
"Both parties reaffirmed their commitment to resuming and strengthening collaboration, with a view to ensuri...

Senegal Seeks to Reign in Polluting Illegal Gold Mining Along Mali Border Senegal has suspended mining activities along the Falémé river, which forms part of its southeastern border with Mali, in a bid to preserve the environment and protect public health. However, enforcing the ban won't be easy.
Artisanal gold mining is booming in Kédougou, a region...

Groundbreaking Malaria Vaccine Shows Success in Pregnant Women The Sanaria PfSPZ malaria vaccine has made history by proving effective in

Guinea Bissau President Swears At Journalist As Media Freedom Declines Amid political tension in Guinea-Bissau following President Umaro Sissoco Embaló's dissolution of parliament in December, it was only natural for radio journalist Ussumane Mané to ask the West African leader a question that was on everyone's lips: will there be a presidential election ...

Food or Death? Displaced Nigerian Villagers Face Tragic Choices Amid Humanitarian Crisis At least 17 of the displaced locals who went to get food for their families were killed by the terrorists.
In June, Kabiru Salihu and Saleh Alhajin Kara sneaked back into their terror-stricken home in Bassa village, Shiroro Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State, to collect food for their famili...

WHO Urges Rapid Access to Mpox Diagnostic Tests, Invites Manufacturers to Emergency Review WHO has asked manufacturers of mpox in vitro diagnostics (IVDs) to submit an expression of interest for Emergency Use Listing (EUL). WHO has been in ongoing discussions with manufacturers about the need for effective diagnostics, particularly in low-income settings. The request for EUL expressions o...

Can New AU-Somalia Mission Succeed Where Others Failed? Seventeen years after the African Union first deployed a mission in Somalia to weaken the violent extremist group al-Shabaab, the country is preparing for its third peace support operation, set to begin on January 1, 2025,

Can Kenya's Raila Odinga Secure the AU's Top Position? Raila Odinga, Kenya's veteran politician, now has an uphill task to convince most African Union members to vote for him for the African Union Commission Chairmanship.

U.S. Set to Extend African Railway Project Through Tanzania The U.S. government says it is set to expand the Lobito Corridor - a railway project that runs from Angola to Zambia through the Democratic Republic of the Congo - all the way to the Indian Ocean through Tanzania. The railway would connect African countries to global markets and enhance regional tra...

Cameroon Media Denounce Surge in Attacks As 2025 Election Nears Journalists in Cameroon say attacks on reporters have surged as the country prepares for next year's presidential elections. Ninety-one-year-old President Paul Biya, who has ruled the country for over four decades, may run again. Rights groups say six journalists have been assaulted by gunmen in the...

Africa's Nuclear Dreams a Fusion of High Hopes and High Hurdles Africa's nuclear energy ambitions face significant challenges as experts question whether the continent's infrastructure can support such a leap. Industry leaders from the US and Africa's nuclear energy sector are meeting in Nairobi this week to discuss how to move forward.
The four-day conference a...

More Food, Other Relief Reaching Millions of Famished Sudanese Breakthroughs providing for greater humanitarian access that were achieved in the first round of U.S.-mediated peace talks on Sudan are holding and expanding, the United States' special envoy for Sudan said. The talks wrapped up in Geneva last Friday.
"We were able over a couple of weeks working int...

Israel Eyes Kenya for Wheat Farming After Galana-Kulalu Maize Failure Kenya has revealed plans to lease large tracts of land to Israeli investors for wheat production, marking a renewed agricultural venture after an earlier Israeli-led maize project at the Galana-Kulalu irrigation scheme failed.
Kenya's Foreign Affairs Minister, Musalia Mudavadi, announced that Israel...

Starlink's Botswana Entry Hailed As 'Game-Changer' Amid Concern Over Costs The entry of Elon Musk's Starlink into the Botswana market this week has been hailed as a "game-changer." Analysts concur the introduction of the satellite internet service provider will improve internet access but there is concern over subscription costs and the service potentially pushing local in...

Cholera Epidemic Spreads in Eastern Sudan Official sources within Sudan's Ministry of Health confirmed eight deaths, and 128 new cases of cholera in Kassala and El Gedaref states yesterday. The Emergency Room indicated in its meeting today that four deaths occurred in each state. The number of infections in Kassala state reached 87 cases, a...

Mpox Is Infecting Children in DRC - and Spreading to Uganda and Beyond Health officials in Uganda told Global Press Journal to ignore information provided by health workers at the border.
Esther Mwema assumed her 4-year-old son had chicken pox. He was lucky enough to get a medical exam at this camp for displaced people, where many families live in tents and even clean ...

China's Lending to Africa Increased in 2023, Study Shows Chinese lending to Africa rose for the first time in years in 2023, new research by Boston University's Global Development Policy Center showed Thursday. But the $4.61 billion loaned last year is still far less than China's commitments to the continent pre-pandemic.
In the heady early days of Chines...

Is 'Africa' a Racial Slur and Should the Continent Be Renamed? Should African people be called black - or is the categorising of people by skin colour a racist practice? How about Africa? Is the name of the continent a racial slur because it was chosen by European exploiters and based on the weather rather than the people - and should it be renamed?
These are q...

Govt Invokes No-Work-No-Pay Rule Against Striking Resident Doctors The government expressed disappointment at the resident doctors' strike.
The Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare threatened on Thursday to invoke the no-work-no-pay rule against members of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) who are on strike over the abduction of one of th...

649 Free State Teachers Have Criminal Convictions - South African News Briefs - August 30, 2024  
649 Free State Teachers Have Criminal Convictions
At least 650 employees at Free State schools, including teachers and support staff, have criminal records for offenses such as murder, attempted murder, r**e, assault, drug trafficking, housebreaking, and stock theft, committed between 1985 an...

President El-Sisi Meets a U.S. Congressional Delegation President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi received Thursday 29/8/2024 a delegation from a number of US Congressional committees, headed by Senator Joni Ernst, in the presence of Minister of Foreign Affairs, Emmigration and Egyptian Expatriates Dr. Badr Abdelatty.
Spokesman for the Presidency, Ambassador Ahmed ...

Liberia Supreme Court Acquits Former Chief Justice in Murder Case In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court cited insufficient proof and the prosecution's reliance on "circumstantial evidence" that failed to meet the legal standard of "beyond a reasonable doubt" as reasons for its decision to acquit former Chief Just

Luxury Properties Seized in New Lottery Crackdown Pretoria High Court grants preservation order over assets
Luxury homes, a farm and an upmarket car have been frozen as part of the ongoing investigation into lottery corruption. The High Court in Pretoria granted the Special Investigating Unit and the Asset Forfeiture Unit permission to freeze the p...

Egypt Delivers Arms to Somalia After Security Pact, Sources Confirm Egypt has delivered its first military aid to Somalia in over four decades, as confirmed by three diplomatic and Somali government sources. This move, which took place on Tuesday, is poised to escalate existing tensions between Somalia, Egypt, and Ethiopia, particularly in light of a recent controve...

What Are Raila Odinga's Chances of Clinching the Top AU Job? Kenya's veteran politician Raila Odinga, who this week officially launched his bid for the African Union Commission Chairmanship, now has the uphill task of convincing the majority of the African Union Members to vote for him.
Odinga will need a two-thirds majority vote to become the fifth Commissio...

Mpox Vaccines - Where They Come From and What Stands in the Way of Distributing Them in Africa The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization (WHO) have declared the latest outbreak of mpox in Africa a health emergency. An epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo has spread to neighbouring countries and more than 1,400 new mpox cases were detected ...

New AU Mission for Somalia - Old Problems, Fresh Solutions? To succeed in tackling al-Shabaab, the new peace support operation needs appropriate resourcing and protection from regional tensions.
Seventeen years after the first African Union (AU) mission was deployed in Somalia to degrade the violent extremist group al-Shabaab, the country is set to have a th...