Monthly Archives: December 2022
Editorial Desk This is a call to action for the Mozambican government, donors, embassies, international organizations, NGOs and local organizations to support and scale up urgent action. Grants and Funds Humanitarian Nutrition in Mozambique. The Nutrition Group is asking for $29 million to scale life-saving nutrition operations to 400,000 children at risk and impacted by […]
Maria Ngobango in Ethiopia The African Union and the European Union have been at the forefront of digitalizing healthcare, as evidenced by the response to COVID-19. This includes the creation of the EU Digital COVID Certificate (EUDCC) and the African Union Trusted Travel Platform (TTP), supported by the AU-Koldchain PanaBIOS multi-stakeholder framework. The European Commission […]
The African Union Commission launched the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) – Kofi Annan Global Health Leadership Programme on 25 May 2020 in partnership with the Kofi Annan Foundation, following its approval by the Governing Board of Africa CDC in March 2018. Fellows admitted in the programme will be senior public […]
IntelliDigest is now inviting applications for the Global Agrifood Techpreneur Programme, a food system sustainability business development programme designed to last for 12 months. The global agrifood techpreneur is focused on supporting young graduates to engage in addressing key food sustainability challenges in their country to improve food production and distribution, end hunger, end obesity […]
DAKAR –The Network for the Prevention of Food Crisis in West Africa (RPCA) in Lomé (Togo) which comprise of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) urge governments across the region to increase support and investments in food […]
Joint mission to Ethiopia by Education Cannot Wait and Norway International Development Minister brings attention to one of the world’s largest education crises that has left 3.6 million children out of school. 7 December 2022, Addis Ababa/New York – Ethiopia is facing one of the worst humanitarian crises it has seen in decades. On a joint […]
Brazzaville – The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa in partnership with Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, West African Health Organization, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UK Health Security Agency, Robert Koch Institute and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation today kicked off the region’s largest public health emergency […]
H.E. Dr. Omar Alieu Touray, President of the ECOWAS Commission signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) worth One Million four hundred and ninety six thousand euros (€1,496,000) with the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation of the Kingdom of Spain on support to ECOWAS Specialised Agencies, namely: the ECOWAS Centre for Gender Development (ECDG), the […]
Eswatini government has speed their efforts to fight Polio through the finalisation of the National Polio Preparedness and Response Plan, which will create a pathway for a Polio Outbreak Simulation Exercise (POSE). Therefore joining with countries like Botswana, Mozambique, and Malawi in intensifying efforts to protect more people from polio. Following. This was through a two-day […]
More than 20,000 people in the South Sudan’s Upper Nile State have been displaced since August this year, by the escalating armed conflict. At least 3,000 people have already fled to neighbouring Sudan, further intensifying South Sudan’s refugee crisis, the largest in Africa, according to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. The armed conflict erupted in the […]