A £6.5 million ($10.8 million) emergency Ebola research fund has been released by the UK’s Department for International Development and medical research charity, the Wellcome Trust to boost efforts in.
Mozambique’s government and rebel movement-turned political party Renamo have signed an agreement to immediately end their armed conflict. The deal comes ahead of presidential elections in October. Chief negotiators from.
Ebola is known to Liberians as the end of life as those infested with the deadly virus see infection as the end of the journey on earth and for this.
Flying drones are helping journalists in Kenya report on disaster stories by enabling them to film in dangerous or hard-to-access areas. The pilot African SkyCAM project funded by the.
World’s largest software maker Microsoft Corporation, through its East African branch , has entered into a collaborative agreement with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to provide training and mentorship.
Africapitalist proponent, Tony Elumelu has committed N100 million ($617,000), through his foundation, to help battle Ebola outbreak in West Africa, joining a growing list – which includes Africa’s richest man.
Fighting has disrupted farming in South Sudan leading to nationwide food shortages and malnutrition Continue reading the main story The US is providing $180m (£107m) in emergency aid to help.
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today approved a new 24-month arrangement for Morocco under the Precautionary and Liquidity Line (PLL) in an amount equivalent to SDR.
WASHINGTON, August 7, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — As the 1998 bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania underscored, Africa-based terrorists threaten the interests of the United States.
Senegalese-American singer Aliaune Badara Thiam, popularly known as Akon, has launched an initiative to provide electricity to one million households in Africa by the end of 2014. The singer, who.
