Follow AllAfrica News: Sustainable Development, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/all-africa-news-sustainable Fri, 24 Mar 2023 01:09:44 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b8Mf9tJ02RQ5Gw5Ur-z5Bww [allAfrica] Nairobi -- Today's world is confronted with an unprecedented array of environmental, social, and economic challenges, that affect not only our local communities but also the global community.]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 18:36:31 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b8Mf9tJ02RQ5Gw5Ur-z5Bww https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b8rBE9WjFo9G4eLGixeGJZp [spotlight] Tuberculosis (TB), an ancient but curable disease, kills more people worldwide than any other infectious disease. Despite decades of global efforts to fight TB, more than 1.6 million people die from TB annually, and the rate of decline in new infections is too slow to place the world on the path to ending the epidemic as a public health threat by 2030.]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 18:12:59 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b8rBE9WjFo9G4eLGixeGJZp https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b-hiIHfVBDai3OFESPuQWsX [FAO] Levelling the playing field on access to a vital resource]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 17:05:22 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b-hiIHfVBDai3OFESPuQWsX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b9QTCPocAX4kApx5_w21kha [WFP] Blantyre -- Prices of staple foods are soaring in Malawi, ten days after Tropical Cyclone Freddy made its second passage over the southern African country, worsening levels of food insecurity as families struggle to meet their food needs. The price of maize, the country's staple food has soared to record levels and is now 300 percent higher on average than the same time last year in the cyclone-affected region. Several markets are either inaccessible or without sufficient food. In the southern Nsanje district, cut-off]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 15:02:53 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b9QTCPocAX4kApx5_w21kha https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b9QTCPocAX4kAaB2UxGNFpJ [Nigeria Health Watch] As the saying goes, "Water is life". However, one could rephrase it to say-"Adequate and safe water is life", or better yet, borrow the famous line from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem titled 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner': 'water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink' to describe the global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) situation. The availability of water everywhere does not imply its safety for drinking or other purposes.]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:53:30 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b9QTCPocAX4kAaB2UxGNFpJ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b9QTCPocAX4kIfjc6hd5eWF [WHO] The world is facing an upsurge in cholera, even touching countries that have not had the disease in decades. Years of progress against this age-old disease have disappeared. While the situation is unprecedented, the lesson to draw is not a new one: safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene are the only long-term and sustainable solutions to ending this cholera emergency and preventing future ones.]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:51:58 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b9QTCPocAX4kIfjc6hd5eWF https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b9QTCPocAX4kEFW8UNEQjUn [New Times] A cooperative of 157 women and three men in Rukara sector, Kayonza District, has found financial success by embracing coffee growing instead of subsistence farming.]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:47:14 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b9QTCPocAX4kEFW8UNEQjUn https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b9QTCPocAX4kCVCAQLB0bf5 [New Times] Adeline Umukunzi stands in a field in Musanze District picking nutritious mushrooms from inside a small covered structure. The structure provides an environment with moisture, low light, and humidity, which enables these umbrella-shaped fungi to thrive.]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:45:59 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b9QTCPocAX4kCVCAQLB0bf5 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b9GUBxxFIQUfqrkJyTkC_2b [SAnews.gov.za] The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment's Working on Fire (WoF) in Limpopo has officially kick-started preparations for the winter fire season by training firefighters through the yellow card training camp at BET Joshua Camping, located in Leewkui, Polokwane.]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:40:58 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b9GUBxxFIQUfqrkJyTkC_2b https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b9GUBxxFIQUfhKeetMRuZbW [SAnews.gov.za] The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has announced that the detection rate of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is rising sharply.]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:33:46 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b9GUBxxFIQUfhKeetMRuZbW https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b8boVUiiK1VG4IAmcWJ0TmB [New Dawn] ...As 14 Scholarship Students Return Home for Internship]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:03:31 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b8boVUiiK1VG4IAmcWJ0TmB https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b8boVUiiK1VG1w3HFUzDTIP [New Dawn] House Speaker Bhofal Chambers Tuesday, 21 March received Six Executive Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group who are currently on a consultation mission to Liberia.]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:02:47 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b8boVUiiK1VG1w3HFUzDTIP https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b8boVUiiK1VGzHgrmwRGUK6 [The Point] Saama Kairo Federation, affiliated to ChildFund, The Gambia over the weekend graduated seventy three (73) people after successfully completing three months intensive training on entrepreneurship, leadership and counseling.]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 13:53:02 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b8boVUiiK1VGzHgrmwRGUK6 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b9aWCmdFl7URYfjc6hd5eWF [Govt of Liberia] The President of the Republic, H.E. Dr. George Manneh Weah has underscored the importance of the medical profession and vowed that his government would continue to improve and expand access to healthcare delivery across the country.]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 10:15:05 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b9aWCmdFl7URYfjc6hd5eWF https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b9aWCmdFl7URUFW8UNEQjUn [New Times] Tanzania has confirmed its first ever outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease, a rare and severe hemorrhagic fever that can be transmitted to humans from fruit bats and spread among people through human-to-human contact.]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 10:14:18 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b9aWCmdFl7URUFW8UNEQjUn https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b9aWCmdFl7URSVCAQLB0bf5 [Namibian] CHAOS ensued at yesterday's 33rd Independence Day anniversary at Outapi in the Omusati region as some people grabbed food initially meant for Very Very Important Persons (VVIPs) and fled the event.]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 10:08:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b9aWCmdFl7URSVCAQLB0bf5 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b9aWCmdFl7URarkJyTkC_2b [Namibian] INTERNATIONAL organisations have voiced their concern over the arrest of Popular Democratic Movement parliamentarian Inna Hengari.]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 10:04:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b9aWCmdFl7URarkJyTkC_2b https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b_IUelf12jycwX50KYzL9tX [Government of Mauritius] The Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr Kailesh Kumar Singh Jagutpal, launched, this afternoon, at Caudan Arts Centre in Port Louis, a new Protocol regarding the treatment for opioid and psychoactive substances addiction with a view to equip stakeholders, including doctors, nurses, social workers and therapists, with relevant tools for effective interventions.]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 10:00:23 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b_IUelf12jycwX50KYzL9tX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b_IUelf12jyc5NaYRWadcX6 [SAnews.gov.za] The Department of Social Development will host a conference that seeks to deepen and promote access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights.]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 09:56:14 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b_IUelf12jyc5NaYRWadcX6 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b_IUelf12jyc4IAmcWJ0TmB [SAnews.gov.za] Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Barbara Creecy, has emphasised the importance of accelerating efforts to adapt to the reality of a rapidly changing climate, and to close the existing adaptation gap in this decade.]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 09:55:17 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/oz9b5id51b_IUelf12jyc4IAmcWJ0TmB