Thrilla in Manila: Women’s financial inclusion is a fight for Sustainable Development Goals
Unlocking women’s economic power and closing the gender gap will not only help us achieve Sustainable Development Goal 5 – which is focused on gender equality – it will also help accelerate progress towards many of the 16 other goals.
African Medical Centre of Excellence targets world class medical care as it holds meeting
The facility will also provide first-class medical equipment and infrastructure that include PET CT scans, Cyclotrons that will produce nuclear isotopes, Linear Accelerators for radiotherapy, chemotherapy suites, fully equipped modular theatres, HTR/ HDR machines, among many others which are currently not available in sub-Saharan Africa in order to deliver superior quality of diagnostic and specialty services.
Trading Musevenism for Kyagulanyism: Uganda’s enduring identity politics and man-eat-man interests
One unswerving Kyagulanyism states that Kyagulanyism is Ugandanism, which is self-rediscovery and self-empowerment of everyone in order to reinstitute the sovereignty of the traditional nation states of Uganda. However, I have not yet come across a clear integration, articulation and clarification of these ideals, although I have several times heard Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, the political head of the new political party National Unity Party (NUP), currently the majority political party in the parliament of Uganda.
Off we go
Kenya’s President Ruto pitches for investment in Africa as part of long term climate change solutions
Invest Africa is a leading pan-African business platform that promotes trade and investment across the continent. With over to years’ experience, Invest Africa says its network is made up of more than 400 global organisations, private investors, fund managers, family offices, policy makers and entrepreneurs. Together they share a desire to build opportunity across the African continent.
Modern knowledge: Unions, conventional wisdom and bureaucracy doomed in Uganda
Although we live in a world environment in which 95 per cent of the time is wasted (e.g, Peters, 1992) and resistance to change is a known vice, subserved by all sorts of conventional wisdom, it is no longer guaranteed that one can go on wasting time or resisting change using popular conventional wisdom like in the past.
Impact of ultrasound in pregnancy: Wellbeing Foundation Africa and GE HealthCare team up for change
According to the World Health Organization, the Maternal Mortality Rate in Nigeria in 2017, was estimated at 917 per 100,000 live births; it increased by nearly 14 per cent in 2020 to reach 1,047 deaths two with evidence suggesting that the increase in rates is due to three common signs of delay: in making the decision to seek maternal healthcare, in locating and arriving at a medical facility, and in receiving skilled pregnancy care when a woman gets to the health facility.
Corrupting Pan-Africanism and nationalism for ethnic supremacy: Case of Uganda in Great Lakes Region
Pan-Africanism was the attempt to create a sense of brotherhood and collaboration among all people of African descent whether they lived inside or outside of Africa. It held the idea that peoples of African descent have common interests and should be unified. However, although Kwameh Nkrumah wanted to take advantage of it to realise his dream of one Africa with one government, it did not originate in Africa or with him.
Kenyan soldiers training Brazilian counterparts in jungle warfare to cope with harsh Congo forests
The course curriculum covers topics, including navigation in dense foliage, survival skills, patrolling techniques and medical care in austere conditions. Participants undergo gruelling physical and mental challenges, pushing them to their limits and preparing them for the unpredictable nature of jungle warfare.
Collective punishment: General sanctions are worsening humanitarian crisis in post-coup Niger
The World Food Programme (WFP) has estimated that 7.3 million people may be driven from moderate to severe food insecurity as a result of the latest post-coup restrictions, which hit as the country was in its traditional “lean season” between harvests.
Death toll in Morocco’s deadliest earthquake in six decades nears 1,100 with hundreds missing
In Marrakech, where 13 people were confirmed dead, residents spent the night in the open, afraid to go home. In the heart of its old city, a UNESCO World Heritage site, a mosque minaret had fallen in Jemaa al-Fna Square.
