'No time to lose' as humanitarian catastrophe looms in Somalia – UN agencies United Nations Print | 17 February 2017 – Amid worsening of an already 'devastating' drought across Somalia, United Nations agencies have underlined that only a massive and immediate scale-up of humanitarian assistance can help the country avoid falling i...
There Is Still Time To Stop Somalia Being Devastated By Famine - But It Is ... Huffington Post Mothers bring their children to a health clinic in an IDP camp in Baidoa, Somalia. C. UNICEFSomalia/2017/Prinsloo | Baidoa is a dusty town haunted by the memory of the past famine in which a quarter of a million people - half of them children - died....
Mozambique: Cyclone Dineo - Over 200 Cases of Cholera Reported All Africa [News24Wire] Along with the havoc wreaked by tropical storm Dineo, Mozambique has also been hit by a cholera epidemic, with 216 confirmed cases of the diarrhoeal disease and one death in three cities, radio station VOA Portugues reported on Thursday....
Childhood vaccines are a shot in the arm for health and productivity Hindustan Times The health of children should figure much more in our public discourse but as we have seen, this is not always the case. Protecting children through immunisation and a comprehensive package of interventions reaps many benefits for India’s child...
Reinventing Waste Management in Lagos This Day In this report, Joseph Ushigiale examines the attempt by the Akinwunmi Ambode administration to revolutionise and create a win-win situation in waste management | There is an ongoing race among cities globally today and the main objective or target o...
South Sudan: Cholera Kills 14 All Africa [CAJ News] Khartoum -A shortage of boats, which is a prime transport source in the region, and fuel scarcity are worsening the deadly cholera outbreak that has claimed 14 lives in crisis-torn South Sudan. The disease has spread dramatically in the Ea...
FEATURE-Nowhere to go: Nigeria's crowded camps fuel disease fears from open defecation DNA India By Kieran Guilbert | MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Feb 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - E very time she needs to go to the toilet, Shadima Irima recalls the moment Boko Haram militants stormed her home in northeast Nigeria and killed her cousin before her eye...
UN, partners launch multimillion dollar appeal for DR Congo United Nations Print | 13 February 2017 – The United Nations and humanitarian partners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have appealed for nearly $750 million to aid 6.7 million people this year. | “It is vital that the world does not forget t...
It's A Dirty Job, But IWK Does It Without Fail Malaysian National News Agency By Nurul Halawati Mohamad Azhari | KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama) -- Every day, Malaysians use an average of 65 litres of water a day, which will ultimately become sewage water that needs to be treated by Indah Water. | Has anyone ever wondered what happens ...
Turning the tide against cholera Deccan Herald Two hundred years ago, the first cholera pandemic emerged from these tiger-infested mangrove swamps. | It began in 1817, after the British East India Co sent thousands of workers deep into the remote Sundarbans, part of the Ganga River Delta, to log ...
