Cote d’Ivoire will play two worldwide friendlies towards Benin and Kenya as a part of their closing preparations for the 2026 TotalEnergies CAF Girls’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), which is scheduled to happen in Morocco from 17 March to three April. The Ivorian girls’s nationwide workforce began coaching camp in Abidjan on Tuesday 24…
Pope Leo will go to 4 international locations throughout Africa from April 13-23, the Vatican introduced yesterday, with the pontiff making his first main abroad journey in 2026 to the continent the place the Catholic Church is rising quickest. The pope may also make a day’s go to on March 28 to Monaco, the microstate…
Kinshasa / Paris / Geneva / Amsterdam — • Advice primarily based on Part II/III research demonstrating as much as 96 per cent success charges at 18 months throughout each early and superior phases of T.b. gambiense, the most typical kind of sleeping illness • The remedy, given as a single dose of three tablets, might supply…
Mr Kaseya stated sustainable financing is now one of many establishment’s 5 strategic pillars, with a concentrate on mobilising progressive home assets and exploring beforehand underutilised mechanisms reminiscent of debt swaps. The Africa Centres for Illness Management and Prevention (Africa CDC) has intensified efforts to unlock an estimated $1 1billion in well being financing by…
Nairobi — New HIV analysis introduced this week on the Convention on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2026) has revealed essential proof gaps that specialists say should be urgently addressed to strengthen HIV therapy methods throughout Africa. Researchers from the Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Evaluation (CEMA) on the College of Nairobi introduced findings from…
African Heads of State and Authorities on February 14, 2025, formally launched the Africa Infrastructure Financing Facility (AIFF), a coordinated, Africa-led platform designed to speed up the preparation and facilitation of financing for precedence cross-border infrastructure initiatives aligned with Agenda 2063. The launch occurred through the Third Presidential Excessive-Stage Dialogue of the Alliance of African…
Addis Abeba — The thirty ninth Abnormal Session of the Meeting of Heads of State and Authorities of the African Union (AU), convened in Addis Abeba from 11 to fifteen February 2026, occurred at a second when the continent’s developmental aspirations had been in direct collision with a fracturing international order. Whereas the summit’s official…
Nairobi — The College of Nairobi has formally launched the Africa Centre for the Research of Russia, a brand new tutorial hub aimed toward deepening analysis, dialogue, and diplomatic engagement between Africa and the Russian Federation. The inauguration ceremony, held Wednesday in Nairobi, introduced collectively senior authorities officers, diplomats, and students, marking what audio system…
An African aphorism says “When elders sit collectively, phrases are weighed, not counted.” “And when worth circulates regionally, belief deepens and neighborhood stability holds.” A lot of right now’s world dialog is formed by new applied sciences together with Synthetic Intelligence (AI), digital transformation, and social media, and the impression of those forces on democracy,…
Kampala, Scidev.Internet — As Uganda rolls out obligatory nationwide screening of newborns for sickle cell illness this month, a gene remedy celebrated in the USA and Europe stays financially out of attain for many sufferers in Africa. Ayoola Olajide, president of Ikorodu Sickle Cell Membership in Nigeria and an individual dwelling with sickle cell illness,…