New malaria drug Coartem Baby set for rollout in East and West Africa after successful trials in Uganda
Africa’s 1.5 billion people accounted for 95 per cent of an estimated 597,000 malaria deaths worldwide in 2023, according to the WHO. More than three-quarters of those deaths were among children.
In Uganda, an east African country of 45 million people, there were 12.6 million malaria cases and nearly 16,000 deaths in 2023. Many were children younger than five and pregnant women, according to WHO.
Senegal’s ‘schools for husbands’ teaching ‘positive masculinity’ but men still wary of male doctors treating their wives
While maternal and infant deaths in Senegal have declined over the past decade, experts say it still has a long way to go. It recorded 237 maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births in 2023, while 21 new-borns out of every 1,000 died within their first month. The UN globally wants to reduce maternal deaths to 70 deaths per 100,000 live births and new-born deaths to under 12 per 1,000 by 2030.
America’s street violence: When a friendly ‘How are you today?’ can lead to attack, gorged out eye
According to Fox 10, court documents later revealed the profound toll the injuries would take, stating, “The victim stated this loss of the use of his right eye and fractured jaw will forever impact his quality of life and is unsure if he will be able to work again or perform many basic life functions.”
Upset by financial institutions’ reluctance to deal in cryptocurrency Trump orders kerb on ‘political debanking’
According to Donald Trump Jr, the banks’ behaviour helped to awaken the Trump family to the supposed promise of crypto, as the basis for a parallel financial system in which everybody has custody over their own funds.
Tiriki and Terik ethnic ‘cousins’ of western Kenya meet Vihiga Governor Ottichillo over indigenous culture
The meeting discussed the proposed construction of a cultural centre for the Terik community, equipping and operationalising Shiru Cultural Centre and Shamakhokho Resource Centre, plus documentation and digitisation of cultural heritage assets from both communities.
Lake Victoria pollution at tipping point as study exposes how 44 towns in East Africa poison world’s second largest freshwater mass
Speaking during the release of the findings in Mwanza Tanzania, Eng Otoung, said the study provides a layered snapshot of the lake’s physical, chemical and biological condition.
State legitimacy crisis in Uganda: A hotchpotch of deep state, military state and police state that represses or suppresses alternative opinion
We see erosion of peace and security in both rural and urban areas at a rate unimaginable after 2000. Ogega Otunnu (2017) has indicated that the crisis of state legitimacy and political violence in Uganda continues. He has looked at the crisis of state legitimacy under the Uganda National Liberation Movement/Army (UNLF/A) from 1979-1980, Uganda People’s Congress during Obote II from 1981/1985, Tito Okello military junta from 1985-1986 and National Resistance Movement under Tibuhaburwa Museveni from 1986-2016 (SpringerLink Search, 2020).
For disrupting and democratising traditional banking services, Equity Bank has no equal n East Africa
Omar declared, “Thomas Sankara once said, ‘The ones who feed you, rule you.’ In today’s context, we might say, ‘The ones who finance you, empower you’,” insisting that strong African-owned banks are critical to scaling development and banks like Equity Bank are at the forefront of that mission.
How digital democratisation of intellectualism makes it easier for Ugandan thought leaders to ventilate in face of repression and subjugation
Winick has recently explained the difference between a thought leaders and Philosophers. Philosophers think deep thoughts about ideas. Thought leaders lead in converting an idea into reality. The ability to take your ideas, create content and shape products that help others solve their toughest problems is at the heart of thought leadership – and so is market viability.
Sign contracts that you understand and are based on Kenyan labour law, athletes counselled
Lawyer Samwel Momanyi said there were many clauses that the athletes may not understand without the help of a lawyer especially after it emerged that, since most of the managers were from foreign countries, the athletes signed contracts written in foreign languages and under foreign labour laws.
