The director of Technology, Climate Change and Natural Resources Management at the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Jean-Paul Adam, told journalists during a virtual press briefing on 10 June 2020 that Africa... Read more »
Mohammed Adem suffered kidney failure while working as an irregular migrant in Sanaa, Yemen in 2018, forcing him to return to Ethiopia. He was supported by the EUIOM Joint Initiative for Migrant... Read more »
The African Development Bank (ADB) board of directors has approved a $1.2 million grant for the Ethiopian government to fund a feasibility study for building a railway between Ethiopia and Sudan. The... Read more »
ADDIS ABABA – When Olana Abdulsewud was woken by the police in Addis Ababa early one morning in March, the Ethiopian teenager was relieved. Begging to survive on the streets had become... Read more »
Uganda’s President YoweriMuseveni has said the country is preparing a 40,000bed field hospital at Namboole Stadium in the capital, Kampala, for coronavirus patients. The president said the Ministry of Health was initially... Read more »
Pleased by the surrender of a militia leader to The Hague-based court, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) renewed calls to Sudanese authorities on Tuesday to hand over or... Read more »
An outbreak of African swine fever in Nigeria’s largest pig farm co-operative in the south-west of the country has been confirmed. It is the first time in 12 years that the highly... Read more »
With 2.6 million internally displaced persons in Somalia, the outbreak of COVID-19 poses an additional challenge in an already fragile situation, leaving the population highly vulnerable. Thankfully, the African Development Bank-financed water... Read more »
CABI and Swiss biological control producers Éléphant Vert are stepping up the fight against crop-destroying locusts and grasshoppers with a safe and environment friendly product called Green Muscle™ which is now being... Read more »
On an overcast morning on the outskirts of the Kenyan city of Kisumu, which perches on the edge of Lake Victoria, a queue of commuters receives a spritz of hand sanitizer before... Read more »