The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), in partnership with GBCHealth and the Aliko Dangote Foundation has organized a meeting in New York for African leaders to discuss the challenges and investment opportunities in the health sector of Africa.
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It’s been a difficult few months for 25-year-old Etenesh. In May this year she and her two daughters had to flee their home in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia, when their small farmstead was set on fire during civil unrest. The walk from their village to the neighbouring Gedeo zone only took a few hours, […]
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Gudai Sette, a mother of two, feeds her 1-year-old child scrambled eggs in her home in Dana village, in the Amhara region of North Western Ethiopia. She is one of 43,000 community members in the region who welcome the introduction of World Food Programme’s (WFP’s) new Fresh Food Vouchers programme.
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IBM scientists in Kenya have unveiled a water management service platform (WMaaSP) to address the needs of approximately three million Kenyans living in the remote northern regions of the country.
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Every year, road crashes are estimated to claim over 300,000 lives in Africa. The African region has 2 per cent of the world’s registered vehicles but a disproportionate 16 per cent of the world’s road traffic deaths, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
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By Mekonnen Teshome Tollera – Ethiopia, through its unique Health Extension Program (HEP), has registered quite impressive results in the promotion of community and household-level hygiene and sanitation. To this end, reports of the Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy indicate that the country’s national water supply access “coverage”, has reached 84% during the first […]
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