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Getty Images The United Nations children’s agency (UNICEF) has lamented the effect that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has had on the country’s children. The latest outbreak, which now counts 57 probable and confirmed cases, is the country’s 10th since 1976. By 1st August, the death toll stood…
Assistant High commissioner for UNHCR, Volker Türk, in Nduta camp in Tanzania [Courtesy: UNHCR]Refugees should be given an opportunity to make their own choices regarding whether they should return to their home countries, a senior United Nations official said. The Assistant High Commissioner for Protection with the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), Volker Türk, made the…
South Africa has banned the importation of honey from Zambia after authorities detected American Foulbrood disease from samples of the product. The South African agriculture department announced the ban through a letter to honey importers. American Foulbrood is a serious bacterial disease capable of killing a bee colony. There is no cure – and it contaminates beekeeping equipment, so once detected that…
If Europe wants to halt migrant boat arrivals on its shores from Africa it must end the state of chaos in Libya, Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou told Reuters on Thursday, warning that the stability of neighbouring countries was at stake. Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou attends a Reuters…
Lawyers representing Kyadondo East Member of Parliament (MP) Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, AKA, Bobi Wine, has revealed that the MP is in poor health condition and can hardly walk or talk. The lawyers, together with members of Bobi Wine’s family were initially blocked from seeing their loved one who was arrested on Monday in Arua town together with…
