The U.N. refugee agency says fatalities are rising along the Mediterranean Sea crossing to Europe, even as fewer migrants and refugees are making the dangerous journey. Migration reached a peak in 2015, when more than a million refugees and migrants crossed the Mediterranean to Europe. That number declined to 123,300 in 2021. However, the U.N. […]
U.S. officials say they are working with Ukraine to export at least three million tons of grain to combat the world’s growing hunger crisis, especially in Africa. Before Russia’s invasion, Ukraine was exporting six million tons of grain a month. But Russia’s Black Sea naval blockade means grain that could feed 400 million people is […]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has organized a train-the-trainer workshop on air pollution for 50 health professionals as part of efforts to reduce the health risks of air pollution globally. The participants drawn from all the 16 regions include physicians, public health nurses and public health officers are expected to train other health workers on […]
A food crisis kicked off by the Ukraine war could last for years without intervention, the head of the World Trade Organization has said. African countries could be hit especially hard by wheat and fertilizer shortages, WTO director general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told the BBC. Millions of tonnes of grain are sitting in warehouses and Ukrainian […]
The World Bank has approved an additional financing of $145 million International Development Association (IDA) credit for the Ghana Secondary Cities Support Programme. The financing will allow the country to scale up and improve urban services to two million people in 35 secondary cities. This builds on an existing Programme of support to secondary cities […]
Senegalese President and African Union Chair Macky Sall on Thursday urged Ukraine to demine waters around its Odesa port to ease much needed grain exports from the war-torn country. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Western sanctions have disrupted grain deliveries from the two countries, fueling fears of hunger around the world. Cereal prices in Africa, […]
The UN Secretary-General recently warned that a widespread hunger crisis will affect different parts of the world due to Russia’s war in Ukraine, and Putin is now using a blockade of grain exports as blackmail against the world. The writer offers some perspectives on averting this disaster. A global food crisis is looming, so policymakers […]
The risk of monkeypox becoming established in nonendemic nations is real, the WHO warned Wednesday, with more than 1,000 cases confirmed in such countries. World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the U.N. health agency was not recommending mass vaccination against the virus and added that no deaths had been reported from the outbreaks. […]
The United States on Thursday called on the Malian transition government to take steps toward holding elections, adding to pressure on military leaders in Mali to restore democracy. The West African country’s military leaders toppled the government and failed to keep a promise to hold elections in February, prompting sanctions from the Economic Community of West African […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin says the West will not be able to cut itself off from Russian oil and gas for several years. He added that nobody knows what might happen in that time, so Russian companies would not be “concreting over their oil-wells”. It comes as a US official admitted that Russian profits on […]
