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- Friday 20 June 2014
South Sudan: Displaced People Dying of Preventable Diseases in Bentiu Camps
Recent heavy rains exacerbated an already grim situation, flooding latrines and making it impossible for water trucks to use the roads for deliveries. Medical facilities and other areas where aid organizations provide services have been flooded. - Thursday 19 June 2014
Uganda: Rise in Fistula Cases Overwhelm Specialists
2% of women in the reproductive age group (14-49 years) have a fistula. This means that there is an estimated 140,000 - 200,000 women Uganda with the problem compared to about 23 doctors well as nurses and anesthetists with special skills in correcting the condition, says the 2011 Uganda health demographic survey. - Thursday 19 June 2014
Uganda: WHO Expert Warns Against Misuse of Mosquito Nets amid New Scientific Discoveries
Malaria kills more than 600,000 people each year, with young children in sub-Saharan Africa on the frontline, says UN's World Health Organization (WHO). - Tuesday 17 June 2014
Mali: Third Consultation Session for Peace Kicks off in Algeria
Algeria's facilitation efforts have been greatly supported by the Malian armed movements and government and the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). - Tuesday 17 June 2014
South Africa: Humans Contracts Herpes from Chimpanzees, Study Report
66% of the population is currently infected with at least one of the herpes simplex viruses’ says report. - Tuesday 17 June 2014
Zimbabwe: Grace Mugabe’s Call to ‘Behead Rapist” Elicit Mixed Reactions
Governments themselves have been accused of using rape as form of torture in war torn countries such as Democratic Republic of Congo and Central African Republic of Congo, with total disregard to the constitutional rights of their citizens. - Tuesday 17 June 2014
Uganda: Opposition Calls to Take Arms Against Museveni
A coup will not return power to the people but transfer power from one guard to another, warns FDC leader Besigye. - Tuesday 17 June 2014
Kenya: 15 Killed in Fresh Mpeketoni Terror Attack
Interior Cabinet Secretary (CS) Joseph Ole Lenku said the attackers destroyed Safaricom communication equipment, Kenya's leading mobile network before they undertook the new killings. - Monday 16 June 2014
Uganda: Day of the African Child as 50,000 South Sudanese Children Face Death
More than 50,000 children in South Sudan face death from disease and hunger and are in dire need of help from donor well wishers for over a billion dollars to support them, says UN. - Monday 16 June 2014
Kenya: Man Shot Dead by Police over Word Cup
As the FIFA World Cup enter its second week, the toll of such incidents is bound to rise in Africa, a continent deemed to have the wildest and fanatically inclined soccer fan in the whole world. - Monday 16 June 2014
Kenya: 50 People Killed in an Islamist Attack in the Coast
Al-Shabaab Islamist group vowed to take revenge, carrying out attacks, including one on Nairobi's Westgate mall in September 2013 in which at least 67 people were killed. - Friday 13 June 2014
Zimbabwe: $770 Million in Potential Revenue Lost
In 2013 alone, price manipulations due to transfer pricing generated in excess of $1,6 billion in profits for diamond companies in the UAE, and represents a major deprivation for African treasuries which lost much needed tax revenues that could have funded public service, says report. - Friday 13 June 2014
Sudan: US Accuses Bashir of Bombing Civilians in Blue Nile and South Kordofan
Government's using tactics similar with those used in the war-torn western region of Darfur, where more than 300,000 people have been displaced so far this year alone, says Power. - Thursday 12 June 2014
FAO and WHO Urge Strong Political Commitment to Tackle Malnutrition
A high-level, global intergovernmental meeting, ICN2 is scheduled to take place in Rome on 19-21 November 2014. It is co-organized by FAO and WHO with other UN and international organizations with the theme: “Better nutrition, better lives”. - Thursday 12 June 2014
DRC: Fighting Erupts, Soldier Abducted at Volatile Border
Rwanda has been accused by the UN of playing a part in the unrest in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over the years, a charge it has denied.