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 […]
UNICEF today launched a US$10.3 billion emergency funding appeal to reach more than 173 million people – including 110 million children – affected by humanitarian crises, the enduring effects of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide and the growing threat of climate-impacted severe weather events. “Today, there are more children in need of humanitarian assistance than at any […]
NOUAKCHOTT – Today, BMZ, UNHCR, UNICEF and WFP ended a five-day visit to Mauritania that included Ministerial-level discussions and a field trip to Hodh Chargui. It is the first time that the four agencies have undertaken such a visit, which provided deep insights into the results that can be achieved when humanitarian, development and peace […]
Strategic and operational planning are important for translating the National Health Policy Vision and Goals into actionable interventions that contributes to transforming the health and wellbeing of the people of South Sudan in line with the National Development Strategy and sustainable development goals. To deliver health services across South Sudan, the Ministry of Health with […]
Germany has granted EUR 30 million to the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to support poor rural communities cope with the impacts of the global food, fertilizer and energy crisis. Germany’s funding will be channelled as immediate support, through existing IFAD programmes operating in countries that are hardest hit by setbacks. Poor rural people […]
Major floods have hit central and southern Chad since mid-August, with the latest floods affecting the capital, N’Djamena, where rivers have burst their banks and whole neighbourhoods have been left underwater. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has launched an emergency response to address the most acute needs of people left with minimal access to basic services and exposed […]
Half the population of South Sudanese estimated at 6.6 million people are severely hungry, including 2.2 million people at risk of starvation. Yet the humanitarian response remains woefully underfunded, and without an urgent increase in aid now, 7.7 million people or two-thirds of the population will face severe food shortages next year, In a statement […]