Dalberg Advisors, a strategy and policy advisory firm, is calling for the prioritization of clean energy, sustainable automobile and enhanced health infrastructure in the face of adverse effects posed by climate change. Sunru Yong, a partner at the firm that is working to build a more inclusive and sustainable world where all people can reach […]
Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki has ordered the investigation, arrest, and prosecution of people using social media to incite ethnic and religious intolerance in Lamu. This follows a viral video by some leaders from the region purporting to form a caucus to kick out some communities from Lamu County. “A […]
The inaugural Blue Africa Summit took place in Tangier from November 16–17, and attendees praised Moroccan King Mohammed VI’s “strong ocean commitment. ” The nations along the African Atlantic coast were urged to “join Morocco’s initiative of a coalition of united countries” in the Tangier Declaration, which was released following this summit, which was convened […]
Vials with the Mosquirix malaria vaccine at the Malava County Hospital, Kakamega, Kenya. Shipments of the world’s first WHO-recommended malaria vaccine, RTS,S, have begun with 331 200 doses landing in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The delivery is the first to a country not previously involved in the malaria vaccine pilot programme and signals that scale-up of vaccination […]
Amb. Geiger (second left) and Dr. Matendechero (second right) cut the ribbon to unveil the laboratory witnessed by Prof. Ngumi (left) and Cs. Abdi (right) A national food fortification reference laboratory has been launched at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology. The laboratory, equipped with modern tools for analysis, will aid the government’s efforts […]
Low public and private investment levels in research and development (R&D) remain a trend in most African countries. Still, this bleak narrative contrasts with knowledge production patterns by African nations as bibliometric studies of articles authored or co-authored by scientists and scholars over the past two decades show healthy annual growth, according to findings in […]
Pope Francis on Saturday underwent a CT scan at a hospital in Rome to rule out any lung complications after he canceled his morning audiences because of mild flu, the Vatican said in a statement. The examination result was clear and the Pope returned to his residence in the Vatican, the statement added. According to […]
Sierra Leone has been placed under a nationwide curfew as armed men broke into a prison, setting inmates free. Detainees from Central Pademba Road prison in the capital city Freetown were released on Sunday morning, an official at the facility told BBC News. Earlier on, the gunmen had attacked a major military barracks in the […]
“Writing never stops. This is the starting point. Take the lessons that you have learned here and demonstrate to the world that not only can we produce our data, but that we are capable of analyzing it,” Afrobarometer surveys director Boniface Dulani told up-and-coming researchers at the closing ceremony of the Afrobarometer Pretoria summer school. […]
IBM (NYSE: IBM) on Thursday announced new efforts that apply its geospatial AI technologies, including IBM’s geospatial foundation model developed in collaboration with NASA, to climate efforts including analysis of urban heat islands in the United Arab Emirates (UAE); reforestation across Kenya; and climate resiliency in the United Kingdom (UK). IBM continues to advance its […]
In order to address the climate crisis, King Mohammed VI of Morocco has called for a Pact for Action, emphasising that because of it, “humanity can show—through deeds—that the most ambitious goals are not necessarily the least attainable ones.” “Climate talks are not—and must not become—an aim in themselves, no matter how important they may […]
Morocco was on Friday elected to host the 93rd session of the General Assembly of the International Criminal Police Organization Interpol, to be held in Marrakech in 2025. Reaffirming their faith in the Kingdom and its security institutions, the 196 member countries attending the 91st session of the Organization’s General Assembly in the Austrian capital […]
