LUANDA,Angola,9th June 2026-The African Energy Commission of the African Union (AFREC), in partnership with the Government of the Republic of Angola, has officially launched a three-day Regional Workshop on the Mitigation of Methane Emissions in the Oil and Gas Sector. The high-level initiative, which commenced yesterday in Luanda, aims to accelerate efforts to curb methane…
Children aged less than five years face almost three times the risk of illness from unsafe food than older children and adults GENEVA, June 2026 –A sweeping new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) has unveiled the true, devastating scale of foodborne illness worldwide, revealing that contaminated food causes an estimated 866 million illnesses…
GENEVA,Switzerland,May 2026 -The World Health Organization (WHO)is urging governments worldwide to shield young people from tobacco and nicotine addiction as the world marks World No Tobacco Day on 31 May 2026. WHO’s latest report shows at least 40 million children aged 13–15 currently use tobacco products. At the same time, use of e-cigarettes and nicotine…
KISUMU, 21 May 2026 -Sexual harassment in Kenyan newsrooms has declined from 60% in 2020 to 39% in 2025, according to a new multi-country study released on Thursday, 21 May. But Kenya’s rate remains above the Sub-Saharan African average, and underreporting continues to mask the scale of the problem. The survey, conducted by the World…
GENEVA, 18th May 2026 -A decade after Ebola exposed severe gaps in global outbreak management and six years after COVID-19 triggered a global catastrophe, an expert monitoring group has issued a stark warning that the world is not safer from pandemics. A new report launched today by the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) at the…
“As we consolidate our efforts, let’s turn our growing political commitments into investments,” Rashid Abdallah,AFREC Executive Director KISUMU, Kenya -The air in millions of African households carries more than smoke. It carries a $791 billion annual economic drain. Ahead of the Second Summit on Clean Cooking in Africa, set for July 9–10, 2026, in Nairobi,…
Nairobi, May 2026 –President William Ruto has emphasized that the era of traditional aid is being replaced by a framework of “sovereign equity” and strategic co-investment. Speaking during the Africa Forward Summit held at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC), he spotlighted the summit’s role as a catalyst for a new age of African self-reliance….
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 2026-Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) have progressed work on the Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) annex, a key part of the WHO Pandemic Agreement, and recently agreed additional time was needed to finalize the framework for ensuring a better, more equitable, response to future pandemics. Countries today ended…
GENEVA, April 2026 –The World Health Organisation (WHO) released its annual Results Report on Thursday, 23rd April, revealing significant global health improvements in 2025. While the data shows millions more people are accessing healthcare and living healthier lives, the agency warned that recent funding cuts and resource constraints threaten to derail long-term objectives. The report…
KISUMU, 6th March -In my previous reflection on Trump 2.0 and the escalating confrontation with Iran, I argued that we were witnessing one of the most consequential presidencies in the history of American power projection. I located the crisis within the long arc of US–Iran hostility: from the 1979 Revolution that dethroned Washington’s ally in…