WHO Unveils Tobacco Cessation Guidelines By Isabella Njeri The World Health Organization (WHO) has released its first-ever clinical treatment guidelines for tobacco cessation in adults. The new guidelines seek to support over 750 million people globally who wish to quit the use of tobacco. According to WHO, while over 60% of the world’s 1.25 billion […]

Somalia Launches National Task Force to Combat Polio By Joshua Isaac In a significant stride towards accelerating polio eradication and improving child health, the Somali government has launched a National Immunization and Polio Eradication Task Force. Chaired by the Prime Minister of Somalia, Hamza Barre, the task force will oversee polio eradication and immunization initiatives […]

World’s Second-Largest Tropical Forest Under Tremendous Threat By Joshua Isaac Congo Basin affectionately called the ‘lungs of Africa’, is one of the world’s greatest allies against climate change, removing over 40 gigatons of carbon from the atmosphere annually and home to a diverse ecosystem. However, evidence from the latest State of the Forests report by […]

People at Centre of Conservation as Nairobi Hosts Biodiversity Conference By Thuku Kariuki Kenya has just finished hosting another vital conference in moving forward conservation efforts across the African continent. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), chose Nairobi as the site of its inaugural Africa Conservation Forum. The event brought together over 700 […]

Women at the Centre of Polio Elimination Efforts in Nigeria By Treezer Michelle Atieno It is a Thursday morning, and Nafii Ibrahim is expecting a group of women at Kumbotso Local Government Hospital in Kano for training on how to administer polio vaccines in the community. The women begin to arrive and settle in the […]

AfCFTA, Partners Unveil $100M Fisheries Program to Empower Women, Youth The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat, in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation and TradeMark Africa (TMA), has launched a four-year fisheries program to empower women and youth across several countries (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Zambia, Nigeria and selected […]

Kenya: New Initiative Targets Emerging Towns for Safe Water, Sanitation By Clifford Akumu Kenya is set to launch a project that will see small emerging towns/urban centers have access to clean water and proper sanitation, Julius Korir, Principal Secretary (PS) State Department for Water and Sanitation, said. Speaking to Journalists in Nandi County as he […]