WHO spends $1.7bn on essential supplies to COVID response
By Chioma Obinna Ahead of the World Health Assembly, a new World Health Organisation’s, WHO, has shown that the global health body invested a total of $1.7billion on essential supplies to the COVID-19 response even as it achieved the 1.4 billion vaccine doses target through COVAX facility. However, the report also noted that much remains […]
Nepalese Superintendent in DR Congo Is UN Woman Police Officer of the Year
A Nepalese peacekeeper serving in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was on Friday named the recipient of the UN Woman Police Officer of the Year Award. Superintendent Sangya Malla with the UN mission in the country, MONUSCO, is Chief of its Police Health and Environment Unit, based in the capital, Kinshasa. Ms. Malla, […]
COVID-Fuelled Child Labour Crisis Spurs Call For Global Social Protection Fund
With thousands of children being forced into child labour every day, leading child rights activists on Wednesday called for a global social protection fund to stem the loss of a generation to COVID-19. The pandemic has pushed many countries – from the United States to Rwanda – to spend trillions of dollars on short-term measures, […]
Females Lag Behind in Vaccination
Health authorities here reveal that with a total of 16,821 Liberians vaccinated with the Johnson &Johnson jab, females are far behind their male counterparts with turnout just at 5,728 against 11,098 males vaccinated. Giving an update on the enrollment Thursday, August 19, 2921, at the Ministry of Information’s weekly press briefing, the head of immunization […]
Govt Cancels Independence Celebrations Due to Covid-19 Fears
South Sudan’s Council of Ministers has resolved that there will be no official celebrations for the country’s 10th independence anniversary on Friday over the fear of coronavirus. The council also postponed the arranged swearing-in of the new transitional legislature from Friday to a date yet to be announced. In an extraordinary sitting chaired by President […]
COVID-19 Crisis Makes Electricity Too Costly For Millions In Africa, Asia
The economic toll from the COVID-19 pandemic has left more than 25 million people in Africa and Asia unable to afford electricity, threatening a global goal to provide power to everyone by 2030, international agencies warned on Monday. Two-thirds of those affected were in sub-Saharan Africa, deepening disparities in the region’s access to electricity, according […]
400 GBV Cases Withdrawn in 2020
Despite growing calls by government officials discouraging the withdrawal of gender-based violence cases, the country has recorded 404 withdrawals last year, Chief Justice Peter Shivute announced yesterday. Domestic violence cases brought before the lower courts took a sharp increase in 2020, with a record of more than 2 300 cases. This, according to Shivute, surpassed […]
Women Work The COVID Frontline But Lack A Voice, Poll Shows
Seven in 10 workers on the frontline of the pandemic are female yet women are left out of many COVID-19 response and recovery plans, according to a global survey published on Thursday. The survey, by New York-based women’s rights advocacy group Women Deliver and Paris-based research organization Focus 2030, gathered the views of 17,000 men […]
Old Mutual Medical Equipment Donation Breathes Life Into Malawi’s Covid-19 Fight
Premier financial services provider, Old Mutual (Malawi) Limited, has donated assorted medicine and personal protective equipment (PPE) worth K30 million to Blantyre and Lilongwe District Health Offices (DHOs) to help the two offices in the fight against the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. Chief Executive Officer for Old Mutual (Malawi) Limited, Edith Jiya, said the donation is […]
COVID-19 cases soar In Brazil’s Largest Indigenous Reservation
The coronavirus has spread rapidly through the Yanomami indigenous reservation in northern Brazil and more than a third of its 27,000 people could have been exposed, according to a report produced by their leaders. The Yanomami’s territory, which is also home to 600 Ye’kwana people, is the largest indigenous reservation in Brazil. It is threatened […]
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