LONDON (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday said it had reconvened an expert panel to consider whether an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo constitutes a public health emergency of international concern. The panel, which first met on this issue in October 2018, will also give updated recommendations on how global health officials should… Read more »
This week, my article targeted Sub-Saharan Africa, specifically Uganda. Recently, strikes have been causing conflict between the students at the Uganda University and the police in Uganda. Police have been throwing tear gas at student strikers, sending many of them to hospitals. There have also been reports of actual bullets being fired in Uganda to try and stop the strikes…. Read more »
The Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) says it will study the 2018 Mining Royalties Research Report, which highlights the complexities and challenges facing South Africa’s mining industry. “The department will study the report and the issues it highlights, consider where it enhances our commitment to eradicate corruption and how it should respond to the challenges,” said the department. This follows… Read more »
Business in and around Kyambogo university premises was paralysed as police fired teargas to disperse students who were striking over what they described as an unfair fees policy. The students on Thursday went on strike protesting a policy that requires them to have cleared tuition by the 12th week of the semester or risk an automatic temporary withdrawal (dead semester)…. Read more »
MORONI (Reuters) – Comoros said its security forces killed at least three gunmen in a shootout at a military base in the capital on Thursday after renegade soldiers broke out of prison and the opposition announced a plan to unseat the president. Shooting could be heard for around an hour near the main military base in the capital Moroni, hours… Read more »
BEIRA, Mozambique (Reuters) – Mozambique will start a cholera vaccination campaign next week in areas ravaged by Cyclone Idai, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday, after five confirmed cases were detected. Thousands of people were trapped for more than a week in submerged villages without access to clean water after Cyclone Idai smashed into the Mozambican port city… Read more »
This week, I had Sub-Saharan Africa. My article was focused around the escalated Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. To help control this outbreak, the World Bank Group and the Pandemic Emergency Facility (PEF) have been collecting and donating to the Congo. The main idea of these groups is to support governments and partners to help control… Read more »
World Bank Group and Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility support government and partners to contain the outbreak The World Bank Group and the Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility (PEF) have approved a total of up to US$80 million in grants to support over half the estimated cost of an escalated six-month Ebola response effort being mounted by the government of the Democratic… Read more »
ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) – Two months ago, giggles floated through the home of fisherman Dada as his four-year-old son played ball outside with his two younger cousins on one of Madagascar’s famed sun soaked beaches. A few weeks later, all three children were dead, victims of the worst measles outbreak on the Indian Ocean island in decades. Measles cases are on… Read more »
ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Emirates Global Aluminum unit Guinea Alumina Corp is close to securing $700 to $750 million in financing for a new bauxite project in the Republic of Guinea, EGA’s chief financial officer said on Monday. CFO Danny Dweik told Reuters after the company announced its 2018 financials that the financing is for a $1.4 billion bauxite mining… Read more »