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WHO Staff Members Accused Of Sex Abuse In DRC
An investigation authorized by the World Health Organization has uncovered over 80 cases of sex abuse by staff members transferred to the Democratic Republic Of Congo (DRC) in response to an Ebola outbreak. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus appointed the panel’s co-chairs to investigate the claims last October after media reports said unnamed humanitarian officials…
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’26 Africans Die Of COVID Every Hour’
The World Health Organisation has said that African countries may not achieve 10 percent vaccination of most vulnerable populations against COVID, before the end of September. WHO Africa, in a statement, said that new data has shown that 42 out of Africa’s 54 nations may miss the target with the current pace of delivery and…
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Variant Alert: Scientists Discover Lambda Covid-19 Variant
21 months into the Covid-19 pandemic and the world is used to news of new variants of the virus, particularly those that have, one by one, supplanted previous versions of the disease. In recent months, mutations like the delta variant have usurped other mutations like the alpha variant in terms of transmissibility and the potential to cause hospitalizations in…
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Guinea Confirms First Case Of Deadly Marburg Virus
The World Health Organization has reported the first case of Marburg virus disease in the West African country, Guinea. Marburg disease is closely related to Ebola and, like COVID-19, is passed from animal hosts to humans. The virus, which is carried by bats and has a fatality rate of up to 88 percent, was found…
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BioNTech Says Malaria Vaccine Is in Production
German drugmaker BioNTech has announced its new production of an mRNA-based vaccine to prevent malaria, the longstanding disease that has affected millions of people in Africa and other parts of the world. The company, which developed America’s first authorized coronavirus vaccine with U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer, said clinical trials shots would begin by the end of 2022.…
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Africa Records Frightening Surge In Covid-19 Cases
Africa is currently experiencing a surge in Covid-19 cases, with a new record average of 6,009,854 cases, according to an AFP tally based on official sources on Tuesday at 1815 GMT. The new figures make up cumulative cases from Africa’s 54 nations and territories since the virus was first discovered in December 2019 in China.…
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‘282 Million Africans Malnourished’
The United Nations in a report has said that the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic heightened global hunger in African countries. The UN noted that this global hunger accounted for 282 million malnourished people in the African continent. The report titled, ‘UN report: Pandemic year marked by spike in world hunger, Africa posting biggest jump,…
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20 Killed, 322 Infected As Cholera Outbreak Hits Nigeria Again
Multiple sources have reported a cholera outbreak in northern Nigeria that has killed at least 20 people in the past two weeks. Nigeria records an annual outbreak of Cholera especially towards the rainy season which according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) is a result of poor sanitation. The latest cholera outbreak in Bauchi…
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UN Officials Accused Of Sexual Assault In DRC
A total of 22 women in the town of Butembo (an epicentre of the tenth Ebola outbreak) in the Democratic Republic of Congo have accused UN male aid workers of offering them jobs in exchange for sex. According to a survey in an investigation by The New humanitarian (TNH) and the Thomson Reuters Foundation, fourteen…
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Nigerian Worsening Power Sector Gains Global Recognition
Nigeria’s worsening power sector has beat Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to become the country with the highest number of citizens that lack access to power. World Bank Group Practice Manager, West and Central Africa Energy, Ashish Khanna, disclosed this in his presentation during a virtual engagement with power reporters in Abuja on Wednesday, April…