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Migration routes: UN organisations call for collective effort to save lives

In tonight's edition: In a historic call to action, a dozen international organisations urge countries to do more to support the thousands of vulnerable people who head out on migration routes every year. Also, Nigeria is hit hard by a fuel crisis, despite being Africa's biggest oil producer. Finally, oyster…

France 24

Russia’s Ukraine invasion a threat to world’s ‘breadbasket,’ some prices already surging

It’s threatening the food supply in Africa, Asia and Europe that rely on the vast, fertile farmlands of the Black Sea region and could send more people into poverty.

Chicago Sun-Times

Moderna To Set Up mRNA Vaccine Manufacturing Facility In Kenya

Moderna Inc (NASDAQ:MRNA) would set up a manufacturing facility in Kenya, its first in Africa, to produce messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines, including COVID-19 shots. Moderna expects to invest about $500 million in the Kenyan facility and supply as many as 500 million doses of mRNA vaccines to the continent each year. It also…

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Moderna signs with Kenya for first mRNA facility in Africa

Moderna says it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Kenya’s government for the drugmaker's first mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility in Africa

The Independent UK

Some malaria parasites are evading detection tests, causing an urgent threat to public health

Malaria is an old disease. Yet it continues to have devastating impacts on poor people, especially in Africa. To fight the disease, countries primarily use insecticide-treated bed nets to control the mosquitoes that transmit malaria parasites, or medicines to treat malaria patients.

The Conversation

'No one is coming to help us': The international students trapped near the Russian border

Hundreds of international students, most from India or the African continent, have been trapped in the Ukrainian university town of Sumy, located about 50 kilometres from the Russian border, since the war there began. The students told the FRANCE 24 Observers team that they have been trapped in their dorms…

France 24

Alma Gold Completes Termite Mound Sampling Program on its Karita Gold Project in Guinea

Vancouver, British Columbia – TheNewswire - March 7, 2022 – Alma Gold Inc. ("Alma Gold" or the "Company") (CSE:ALMA) is pleased to announce that it has recently completed a regional termite mound sampling program over three of its four Exploration Permits comprising the Karita Gold Project ("Karita") in Guinea, West…

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Mum fears she will die after mystery insect bite causes her legs to balloon

Fern Wormald, 48, from Heckmondwike in West Yorkshire, developed sepsis while teaching in Africa five years ago - but has now been told she could die if her ulcers continue to swell

Daily Mirror

Repeat photos show change in southern African landscapes: a citizen science project

Every place in the world has a history. To understand it in the present you need some knowledge of its past. The history of the earth can be read from its rocks; the history of life, from the evolutionary histories and relationships of its species. But what of the history…

The Conversation

Oil exploration threatens marine life

Oil exploration off South Africa’s coast threatens to silence, subdue, and scatter the region’s marine life

Salon

'He loves basketball and he loves God.' Kentucky's Oscar Tshiebwe preaches at Lexington church.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — About a month ago, a Lexington church began planning to hold what has become known as an African Worship Service each Sunday. This was intended as a way to more fully embrace its 20 or so members from Africa now living in the Lexington area.

Tribune News Service

Tracking symptoms of respiratory diseases online can give a picture of community health

Respiratory diseases are highly infectious and cause a significant health burden. Disease surveillance is the bedrock of public health responses to outbreaks or epidemics caused by these diseases. Effective surveillance gives an indication of the scale of the problem. But traditional disease surveillance is mostly limited to health facilities or…

The Conversation

Russian War in World’s ‘Breadbasket’ Threatens Food Supply

The Russian tanks and missiles besieging Ukraine also are threatening the food supply and livelihoods of people in Europe, Africa and Asia who rely on the vast, fertile farmlands of the Black Sea region — known as the “breadbasket of the world.” Ukrainian farmers have been forced to neglect their…

Asharq Al-Awsat

COVID shutdowns exposed flaws in Uganda's transport system: how to fix them

Uganda has lifted the last remaining COVID-19 restrictions on economic activity. This allowed boda-bodas (motorcycle taxis) to fully operate again beyond their 6pm curfew. The past two years saw restrictions on boda-bodas as well as other forms of transportation, such as 14-seater minibuses, which make the bulk of the city’s…

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A first for large African mammals: DNA used to count Gabon's endangered forest elephants

Across the African continent the populations of both species of African elephants – forest and savanna – have been declining due to habitat loss, poaching and human-wildlife conflict.

The Independent UK

Russian war in world's 'breadbasket' threatens food supply

Asharq Al-Awsat

Trips of Death from Horn of Africa to Yemen

Three African refugees lie down to rest after washing their children's clothes near a shabby camp in Khur Maksar in Yemen. They laid out the clothes to dry on the street near the camp, the tents of which are made of tree branches and threadbare clothes. Thousands of Ethiopian refugees…

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Nike’s Jordan 2 goes brogue with an unfinished, Africa-inspired look

Maison Château Rouge channels France and Africa in its design.

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The Guardian - UK

Nyokabi Kariūki: Peace Places: Kenyan Memories review – sounds of nature, people and home

This transcendent debut shows how a new generation of African musicians are using field recordings to explore their own heritage

The Independent UK

AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa

FEB 25 – MAR 3, 2022

The Guardian - UK

Obesity rates likely to double by 2030 with highest rises in lower-income countries

More than half of women in South Africa projected to have condition, with no country expected to meet WHO target of halting rise, according to World Obesity Atlas figures

Chronicle Live

When Newcastle honoured Bob Geldof - the rock star behind Band Aid and Live Aid

Thirty-five years ago, Bob Geldof, with his wife and child in tow, flew into Newcastle where he received the Freedom Of The City for his work in raising money to help Africa's famine victims

The Guardian - UK

‘The world is now coming to Africa’: why Madonna and Ed Sheeran want a piece of Afrobeats

West African artists such as Davido, Fireboy DML and Amaarae are ruling pop on their own terms, reflecting a new cultural pride – and western pop stars want in

The Conversation

Emeka Anyaoku: portrait of a skilled diplomat who graced Nigeria, Africa and the globe

Few Nigerians have distinguished themselves to their compatriots and the world so much and for so long as Chief Emeka Anyaoku.

The Conversation

AU-EU Summit: five ways to turn the rhetoric of an 'equal partnership' into practice

Like several prior summits, one of the proclaimed goals of the recent gathering in Brussels was to “lay the foundations for a renewed and deeper partnership” between the European Union (EU) and the African Union (AU).

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