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Agencies are unable to reach the Central and Western parts of the region, and two refugee camps are completely inaccessible. Access is limited to areas along major roads or the capital Mekelle. Twelve weeks since the start of conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, meaningful humanitarian operations have still not begun. Aid organisations are unable to reach the Central and Western parts of the region, and two refugee camps are completely inaccessible. In the few instances where agencies are accessing the region, it is limited to areas along major roads or the capital Mekelle. Aid workers face an unpredictable approval process…

Repeated attacks on the Manmade River systems have caused about 190 wells to be rendered out of service while a general deterioration of the water network is causing a water loss of up to 50 percent. UNICEF expresses concern over the deteriorating WASH situation in Libya. Over 4 million people, including 1.5 million children will face imminent water problems if immediate solutions are not found and implemented. The prolonged crisis has left the sector facing great challenges, leading to a significant decline in services. This is mainly attributed to the lack of required budgets for the purchase of equipment, operational…

The cyclone has hit at a time the country was already battling to contain Covid-19. Tens of thousands of displaced people are squashed in camps without masks, preventive material or clean water. Cyclone Eloise, which recently hit Sofala province central Mozambique, compounded by covid-19 and economic fallout from previous climate-fuelled disasters, has crippled people’s ability to recover, and left over 260 thousand people in desperate need of humanitarian aid, said Oxfam. Around 142 thousand hectares of land and crops and over 16 thousand houses have been washed away or destroyed, forcing people to seek shelter in schools, mosques and churches…

Leader of Glorious Word and Power Ministry, Reverend Isaac Owusu Bempah has revealed that Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia will succeed President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and rule Ghana as President before any other person. He disclosed that this has been blessed by God and only those with a spiritual eye can see it manifesting calling on the rank and file of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to commit it to prayer. “Vice President Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia will continue with the governance of this country after Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. It will be after him that anybody else can come to take over the affairs of…

Former President, John Agyekum Kufuor upon assumption of office as president in 2001 as Commander-In-Chief of Ghana Armed Force wanted to arrest his predecessor, Jerry John Rawlings and take him into custody, former special aide to the late Jerry John Rawlings, Victor Smith has alleged. “Rawlings under Kufuor suffered some indignities, people have talked about withdrawal of his courtesies for a former President or a very senior person in our country, in the first 6 months of President Kufuor coming into power, in June 8 his house was surrounded and they wanted to take him, they wanted to arrest Rawlings but for the intervention of…

The former Deputy Health Minister, Dr Bernard Okoe-Boye, has disclosed that the idea to develop the new coronavirus vaccines by foreign doctors is to save lives and not kill people as perceived. According to Dr Okoe-Boye, the whites would have killed Africans easily if their only objective is to wipe out the growing population of the African continent. Speaking on Okay FM’s morning show, the former Deputy Health Minister noted that for a continent that consumes a lot of foreign produce, the easiest way to kill most people would be through the food we consume and the stuff they wear. “You…

Today, 4 in 10 of the world’s deaths are unregistered and in the African region, only 1 in 10 deaths is currently recorded, according to the first ever global assessment of country health information systems. Two-thirds of low-income countries have established a standardized system to report causes of deaths. However, the SCORE Report highlights the urgent need to strengthen these systems to help the world respond to health emergencies and track progress towards global health goals. The pandemic has highlighted that even the most advanced health and data systems still struggle to provide data in near real-time in order to…

Hard-hit South Africa received its first shipments of coronavirus vaccine doses, with up to 2 million expected to be delivered by March. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday that his country had secured a total of 12 million doses of coronavirus vaccines through the international COVAX program. Approximately 2 million of those doses were expected to be released by March, Ramaphosa said in a televised address. The COVAX program, which is backed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Gavi vaccine alliance, seeks to ensure fair access to COVID-19 vaccines for low and middle-income countries. Ramaphosa also said that…

Former President Donald Trump has until Tuesday to file a response to his impeachment, as Democrats plan out a substantive case for conviction in the Senate. Former President Donald Trump has until Tuesday to submit a formal response to the impeachment charge against him, as the Senate will hold a trial later this month. The former president was impeached in the Democratic-majority House of Representatives on the charge of “Incitement of Insurrection” following the January 6 siege at the U.S. Capitol building. If convicted in the Senate trial, senators could then hold another vote to bar Trump from political office in future. Trump…

Northern Ireland’s First Minister Arlene Foster called the Northern Ireland Protocol “unworkable” after it became the focus of a spat with the EU over controls for coronavirus vaccine exports. The head of Northern Ireland’s government on Saturday called for special Brexit rules for the Irish border to be scrapped following a row with the EU as the bloc struggles to secure coronavirus vaccine supplies. The bloc — under pressure to secure vaccine supplies for its citizens — had  threatened late Friday to invoke Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol to stop the free-flow of vaccines over the border from EU member Ireland to…