Top Kenyan official optimistic new technologies bolstered by new laws will cut foreign medical tourism
Muthoni said the Digital Health Act would not only provide the necessary legal and institutional framework for the use of the information technology in the provision of healthcare services but also facilitate the rollout of universal health coverage (UHC) in the country.
Hajj pilgrimage opens in Mecca against backdrop of carnage in Gaza as Israel shows no signs of let up
It is a moving spiritual experience for pilgrims who believe it absolves sins and brings them closer to God, while uniting the world’s more than two billion Muslims. It’s also a chance to pray for peace in many conflict-stricken Arab and Muslim countries, including Yemen and Sudan, where more than a year of war between rival generals created the world’s largest displacement crisis.
WFP to refugees in Kenya: We provide free food, free water, free health and education, so you should accept cut food rations
The cuts to both food and vouchers were imposed with little warning, people in Dadaab – Kenya’s largest refugee settlement – complained. They also came on the heels of heavy flooding in April, which displaced 20,000 people and drove up prices in local markets, deepening everyone’s despair.
Asthma omena therepy: Patients flock Hyderabad city in India to swallow live sardines as medicine
Legend has it that in 1845 a wandering saint presented a secret formula of miracle herbs to Veeranna Goud, a man living in the old city of Hyderabad, and instructed him to give it to asthma patients for free. Since then, Goud’s descendants, known as the Bathini family, have preserved the tradition and kept the herbal formula under wraps, shared only among male descendants.
Brute violence against children earns Sudan, Congo, Haiti and East Asia spots on UN blacklist
The report for the first time put both Israeli forces and Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants on the blacklist for violating children’s rights in 2023 during Hamas’ October 7 surprise invasion of southern Israel and its massive military retaliation in Gaza that is ongoing.
How India PM Modi BJP’s complacency propped opposition in fierce caste, constitution politics
After a decade of electoral near-invincibility that combined economic success with a narrative of Hindu supremacy, Modi’s party was reduced to 240 seats nationwide. He was able to form a third government only with the help of allies, some of whom have a reputation for political fickleness.
South Africa’s ANC strikes deal for national unity government with opposition, to elect president
ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula told reporters the main opposition Democratic Alliance and others had agreed on the “fundamental” principle of forming a “government of national unity” with the ANC, but he noted that finer details of the agreement had not been finalised yet.
