Faith Nyasuguta US-based researchers have found a genetic link between people with African ancestry and an aggressive type of breast cancer. They hope their findings will motivate more black people to get involved in clinical trials in efforts to boost survival rates for people with the disease. “I never thought I had anything to worry […]
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Avellon Williams PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI- Organizations representing refugees, female merchants, and women, as well as the UN and the human rights sector, have expressed concern that Haiti’s political and humanitarian crisis has disproportionately affected women and girls. During International Girls’ Day, in mid-October, the Support Group for Refugees and Repatriated Haitians, known by its French acronym GARR, said […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The UN humanitarian chief has projected that at least $1 billion will be needed urgently to prevent famine in Somalia in the coming months and in early 2023 when two more dry seasons are expected to compound the historic drought that has hit the Horn of Africa nation. In a video briefing from […]
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Faith Nyasuguta On Sunday, Tanzanian authorities said that a fire on Mount Kilimanjaro was mostly under control after flames burned the mountain in the nation for over 24 hours. The blaze commenced on Friday evening near the Karanga site used by climbers ascending the famous peak, at about 4,000 metres altitude on its south side. […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Some 150 people including children have been killed in two days of fighting in the latest ethnic clashes over land disputes in Sudan’s southern Blue Nile state, a doctor reported on Thursday. The fighting is some of the worst in recent months, and crowds took to the streets of the Blue Nile state capital Damazin in […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Following a funding shortage, Africa is sorely lacking in the output of groundbreaking machine inventions. The African continent is home to some of the brightest, most innovative, and most technologically advanced minds on the planet, as evidenced by the epidemic level of brain drain going on in the continent. Its innovativeness is also evidenced by the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Officials in Malawi have exhumed the bodies of 26 suspected Ethiopian migrants from a mass grave 255 kilometers (155 miles) north of the capital, Lilongwe, according to the police. “The grave was discovered late on Tuesday but we cordoned it off and started exhuming today. So far, we have discovered 25 bodies,” police spokesman Peter […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The president of Tanzania, Samia Suluhu Hassan, has called for better birth control in the east African nation in a dramatic reversal of the stance of her authoritarian predecessor, John Magufuli. Since becoming head of state last year, Samia has won praise for her efforts to counter most of Magufuli’s controversial policies, particularly his denial of […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Zimbabwe has given a nod to the use of long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA) as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention, the first for Africa as a continent. Information given by the World Health Organisation (WHO) notes that “CAB-LA may be offered to people at substantial risk of HIV acquisition as part of comprehensive HIV prevention approaches”. In […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Democratic Republic of Congo’s environmental groups have cautioned that gold mining in the north-east of the East African nation is threatening the habitat of the forest giraffe, or okapi. The stripy-legged herbivore – the only surviving relative of the more familiar giraffe – has already been classified under the endangered species. Organisations among them the Congolese […]
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