AfEEC provides a crucial dashboard to assess Member States’ progress toward the continental benchmark, a 50% enhancement in energy productivity by 2050, escalating to 70% by 2063. ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Continental energy leaders are set to converge at the African Union Commission (AUC) headquarters for the inaugural Africa Energy Efficiency Conference (AfEEC), a strategic…
GENEVA, Switzerland –The World Health Organisation (WHO) is sounding the alarm on the growing threat of drug-resistant gonorrhoea, a Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) that is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics. According to new data from the WHO’s Enhanced Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme (EGASP), resistance to ceftriaxone and cefixime, the primary antibiotics used to treat gonorrhoea,…
BELEM, Brazil – ActionAid International has praised the efforts of COP30 for achieving a just transition mechanism, which is crucial in supporting countries to develop and implement transition plans across sectors. Energy, agriculture, and minerals are some of the sectors that not only cut emissions but also protect the rights of communities and workers. Reacting…
JO’BURG, South Africa –Its all systems go as South Africa prepares to host the Global Fund’s 8th Replenishment Summit on Friday, 21 November 2025. The event will be hosted by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and it will take place online and in person, in Johannesburg, South Africa, alongside…
BELEM, Brazil –ActionAid has sounded a warning over the fragility of the progress on the new just transition text, which was shared on Tuesday morning after negotiations that went until after 1 am last night. Making remarks on the new development, Teresa Anderson, the Global Lead on Climate Justice at ActionAid, said “We are getting…
Despite a steady decline in illness and death, tuberculosis remains the world’s deadliest infectious killer, with new data showing critical funding shortfalls could lead to millions of additional cases and deaths. GENEVA, Switzerland –The global fight against tuberculosis is at a crossroads, according to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Global Tuberculosis Report 2025. While prevention…
GENEVA, Switzerland -The World Health Organisation (WHO) is marking its first official observance of World Prematurity Day with the launch of a new global clinical practice guide for Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC), a simple, proven and life-saving intervention that significantly improves survival for preterm and low birth weight babies. Each year, an estimated 15 million…
BELEM, Brazil, November, 2025-In a powerful push for inclusivity, climate activists at COP30 are demanding governments formally integrate agriculture into just transition negotiations. This, they say, will ensure the voices of farmers, traditional communities, indigenous people, and agricultural workers are central to all climate decisions that impact their lives and livelihoods. The calls were made…
It calls on governments to implement Just Transition Mechanisms. BELEM, Brazil, November 11th –ActionAid, which supports communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis, is joining with other climate organisations at COP30 negotiations in Belém, Brazil, to demand that governments agree to climate action that prioritises people and takes a well-coordinated global just transition approach….
“We were held incommunicado, tortured and starved at Kasenyi Military Barracks in Entebbe for 39 days,” says Njagi and Oyoo. MBALE, Uganda, 9th November -Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has confirmed that the country’s security authorities had arrested two Kenyan human rights activists Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo. The two, he said, are ‘experts in riots’…