Brazzaville – For the first time since the start of the pandemic, Africa is emerging from the holiday season without a significant spike in COVID-19 cases.A total of 20,552 new cases were recorded in the first three weeks of January 2023, which represe…
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IFAD and African Development Bank are on a mission to boost agricultural productivity in Africa
As food security for millions of Africans continues to be impacted by rising food and fuel prices further compounded by threats of a debt crisis in some countries, the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Dev…
UNICEF Zimbabwe Humanitarian Situation Report No. 6, January – December 31, 2022
Highlights• A total of 14,875 children (8254 girls and 6621 boys), were treated for wasting in 2022 surpassing an annual target of 12,685.• A total of 2,994,565 people (746,855 males and 2,247,710 females) accessed essential primary health care against…
Green Comet Zooming Our Way; Last Visited 50,000 Years Ago
A comet is streaking back our way after 50,000 years.The dirty snowball last visited during Neanderthal times, according to NASA. It will come within 42 million kilometers (26 million miles) of Earth on Wednesday before speeding away again, unlikely to…
How Will We Know if the US Economy Is in a Recession?
The second consecutive quarter of economic growth that the government reported Thursday underscored that the nation isn’t in a recession despite high inflation and the Federal Reserve’s fastest pace of interest rate hikes in four decades.Yet the U.S. e…