Continent Exceeds 6 Million Confirmed Cases of Covid-19
As of July 14 confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 6,022,811 while over 37,004,431 vaccinations have been administered across the continent. Reported deaths in Africa reached 153,491 and 5,211,185 people have recovered. South Africa has the most reported cases 2,219,316 and 65,142 people died. Other most-affected countries are Morocco (545,016), Tunisia (510,396), Egypt (283,320), Ethiopia (277,212), […]
Why Nigeria’s Weak Health System Affects Women and Girls The Most
Nigeria’s healthcare service delivery is very poor. It ranks among the worst globally in terms of access and quality. In 2018 it was ranked 142 out of 195 countries by the general medical journal, the Lancet. The World Bank ranks it 42 on a scale of 100 in its universal coverage index, which indicates the availability of essential […]
Easy Sources of Protein You Might Be Overlooking and Shouldn’t
Have you seen the recent headlines about canned tuna losing its popularity? This high-quality, convenient form of protein has seen sales drop by 40% in recent years, according to the USDA. Apparently, this is largely due to millennials not buying it, because they favor fresher fare. If you also prefer to pass on canned tuna, you may be looking for […]
Set In Chad, Cannes film ‘Lingui’ Explores Abortion Struggles
The director behind “Lingui”, a Cannes Film Festival entry about a teenager’s battle in Chad to get an abortion, said on Friday he hoped the story would resonate well beyond the African country, including in places like the United States where there are vocal anti-abortion movements. Mahamet-Saleh Haroun said he was inspired to explore the […]
Dreaming As A Single-Family: A Reflection On The Pope’s Encyclical
My father, a lovely and loving man, died unexpectedly in June 2020. My mother and six of us children were left heartbroken. Then, in March, on my father’s birthday, my beloved mother also died unexpectedly. I am still unable to absorb it all; it feels like living in a novel whose plot I do not […]
U.N. Warns Excluding Women From Top Jobs Threatens COVID-19 Recovery
Global efforts to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic are under threat because women are being excluded from critical decision-making roles, the United Nations said on Thursday. Only 6% of coronavirus task forces, which are responsible for coordinating government responses to the deadly virus, have equal numbers of men and women, while 11% have no women […]
VP Taylor, Partners Break Grounds For Girls’ Safe Home Facility and Training Center
Liberia’s Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor and partners Saturday, July 10, 2021, jointly broke grounds for the construction of a Safe Home facility and Girls Training Center in Monrovia. The Partners include CEMENCO, Spoon Foundation and the Jewel Starfish Foundation. The Office of the Vice President is also collaborating with the YWCA for the construction of […]
Dozens Die in ‘Terrorist’ Attack In Restive Niger-Mali Border Zone
Five civilians, four soldiers and 40 armed attackers were killed on Sunday in a clash in Niger’s southwest region near the border with Mali, according to a statement from the authorities in Niger’s capital, Niamey. An estimated 100 heavily armed “terrorists” riding motorcycles attacked the Tchoma Bangou village on Sunday afternoon, Niger’s Ministry of Defence […]
Kenya Passport Holders Banned in 54 Countries
Holders of Kenya’s passport cannot access 54 countries in the wake of the Covid-19 ban in the global race to protect nations against new variants of coronavirus. The Henley Passport Index, which has been regularly monitoring the world’s most travel-friendly passports since 2006, made the revelations that show how the pandemic has affected travel. Australia, […]
Virus Variants Threaten Global Recovery, G20 warns
An upsurge in new coronavirus variants and poor access to vaccines in developing countries threaten the global economic recovery, finance ministers of the world’s 20 largest economies warned on Saturday. The G20 gathering in the Italian city of Venice was the ministers’ first face-to-face meeting since the start of the pandemic. Decisions include the endorsement […]
UNICEF to Ship 220 Million Doses of J&J Covid-19 Vaccine to African Union
UNICEF said Thursday it has signed a deal to provide up to 220 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to African Union member states by the end of 2022. The child humanitarian group announced in a statement the agreement was reached with Belgium-based and J&J-owned Janssen Pharmaceutica NV. An additional 35 million […]
Call to Advance Gender Equality
Deputy Minister of Transport, Dikeledi Magadzi, has emphasised the importance of removing structural distortions in economies to enable women and youth empowerment. This as many businesses, especially small businesses, continue to shed jobs to contain costs and stay afloat, with most of these job losses affecting women. “We are asked to respond with urgency to […]
Women Entrepreneurs Ask For Support To Grow In Business
TANZANIA SACCOS for Women Entrepreneurs (TASWE) has asked the government and other stakeholders to support their productive activities, access knowledge and expand the customer base for inclusive development. “We are asking stakeholders, mostly the government, to support our efforts in participating in various local and foreign trade exhibitions to acquire knowledge and create business networks […]
Women Lives Matters Condemns Baba Jah’s Comment On Maternal Death
Women Lives Matter, a movement established to fight for the safe labour and delivery of women in The Gambia has strongly rebutted what it called the “false and malicious” statement of Baba Jah against women who died during labour. In a statement shared with The Point, Mballing Cham said: “Baba Jah’s statement was not only […]
Nigeria Records 2.5m Unintended Pregnancies Annually
If good measures are taken, the annual number of unplanned births would decrease from 885,000 to 200,000 and the number of abortions would drop from 1.3 million to 287,000,” the official said. Due to what they described as unmet needs of contraceptives in Nigeria, health experts have said Nigeria annually records about 2.5 million cases […]