Philanthropist delivered biennial McDougall Memorial Lecture
15 June 2021, Rome – Helping smallholder farmers, especially in low-income countries, invest in results-oriented climate-resilient agriculture is essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and avoiding a “catastrophic economic crash,” Bill Gates, co-chair …
Summary Findings and Recommendations.
FINDINGS
• In the past two months April and May 2021, there were growing incidences of clear selective enforcement of the COVID-19 Statutory Instrument 77 of 2020 -The Public Health Order, for political expedience by the …
Giving 110%: Eswatini’s early rollout of COVID-19 vaccines
“I didn’t think that I could get COVID out here in my village,” says Linda Simelane at her home in Sibebe in rural Eswatini.
“I stay away from people, I stay alone, …
Context
Over 31 million people are projected to be in acute need of food assistance this coming season (June to August 2021), a 28 per cent increase from the same period last year.[1] Of this, over 5.4 million are children …
CAIRO – Arab League foreign ministers met Tuesday in Qatar, focusing on efforts to resolve the Nile River dam conflict between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia. Egypt’s Foreign Minister said Cairo is seeking a diplomatic, not a military, solution to its …
(New York, 14 June 2021): Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock today released US$135 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to boost humanitarian operations in 12 countries in Africa, the Americas and the Middle East.
The announcement follows last …
PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA – In South Africa, a group called Afriforum has launched self-defense training for white commercial farmers. The group says the farmers are vulnerable to attacks, which it says are driven by tensions over unequal farmland distribution more …
The World Health Organization said Monday that while the number of new COVID-19 cases has fallen steadily for seven straight weeks, the virus continues to spread and kill people in Africa, a region with little or no access to vaccines …
14 June 2021 – The President of the World Bank, Mr David Malpass, and his senior management team comprised of Dr Axel van Trotsenburg and Dr Makhtar Diop met with the African Union’s COVID-19 Vaccine Acquisition Task Team (AVATT) to …