AllAfrica News: Sustainable Development

Tanzania: Ensure All Medical Machines Are Functioning, Rmos Tasked

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 12:24:16 GMT

[Daily News] REGIONAL Medical Officers (RMOs) have been advised to make sure that machines and medical equipment distributed to various hospitals are properly functioning and ease medics' work.

Ethiopia: Flood Displaces 144,000 Persons, Causes Over 5 Billion Birr Damage in State

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 12:04:21 GMT

[Ethiopian Herald] ADDIS ABABA- (ENA) Unprecedented flood caused by the overflow of Awash River has displaced more than 144,000 persons and caused over 5 billion Birr damage in Afar Regional State.

Nigeria: Q&A - How I Turned Brain Drain to Brain Gain

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 11:54:50 GMT

[SciDev.Net] Folakemi Odedina was told she would never finish her studies when she got married and became pregnant in her first year at graduate school. But, she overcame doubt and discrimination to become an internationally recognised specialist in prostate cancer research.

Kenya: Uhuru Had a Lot of Doubts About Gender Quotas

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 11:41:35 GMT

[Nation] President Uhuru Kenyatta had reservations about prescribing quotas for a particular gender in the composition of elective posts.

Zimbabwe: Child Marriages Surge in Zimbabwe - Plan International

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 11:35:48 GMT

[New Zimbabwe] MUTARE: Cases of girls being married under the age of 15 have surged from 4.9% to 5.4% in 2019, statistics released by Plan International, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) with operations in Zimbabwe, reveal.

Madagascar: Rosewood Conservation - a Success Story From Madagascar

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 10:49:18 GMT

[UNEP] For Madagascar farmer Edmond, who goes by one name, it was a breakthrough. In 2019 he perfected a complicated technique to grow a rare species of tree known as Dalbergia normandii.

Ethiopia: Heavy Rain Pelts Down Lives, Animals With Flash Flood

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 10:35:26 GMT

[Addis Fortune] With half of the weredas in Afar Regional State affected by recent flooding of the Awash River, the federal government struggles to feed and house more than 240,000 people in the region. Experts say the lowland nature of the region's land was not able to sustain repeated heavy rains during the recent season, reports MAYA MISIKIR, FORTUNE STAFF WRITER.

Kenya: Raila Urges Wider Consultations On Parliament Dissolution Bid

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 10:26:29 GMT

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- ODM Leader Raila Odinga is urging President Uhuru Kenyatta to consult widely before making a decision on the Chief Justice David Maraga's advice to dissolve Parliament over the two-thirds gender rule.

Zimbabwe: Army Joins Hwange Local Board to Fight Clay Poachers

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 10:24:42 GMT

[New Zimbabwe] The local board in partnership with security services has intensified its blitz on illegal clay poachers causing massive land degradation while making bricks, with about 30 people arrested for various offences past few days.

Liberia: Pres. Weah Urges UN to Redirect Focus to Inclusiveness of Most Vulnerable in Society

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 09:52:12 GMT

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- President George Manneh Weah has urged the United Nations to review, refocus and readjust its priorities as the world changes considerably.

Ghana: National Interest Movement People's Charter ... ...

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 09:07:51 GMT

[Ghanaian Times] Dr Michael Abu Sakara Foster, Founder and Leader National Interest Movement (NIM) and Chairman of the Ghana First Platform speaks with the Ghanaian Times on the National Interest Movement agenda 2020 and Beyond christened "A people's charter to bring prosperity for the all, not a few" that seeks constitutional change and introduction of key policies to ensure a profoundly different system of governance, economic structure and social fabric of the Ghanaian society. We reproduce below excerpts of the intervi

South Africa: MEC David Maynier Visits Perdekraal East Wind Farm to Access Development

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 08:26:04 GMT

[Govt of SA] Yesterday (22 September 2020), I visited the Perdekraal East Wind Farm in the Western Cape to see the development of this utility-scale renewable energy project.

Cameroon: North West - MIDENO Invests to Enhance Rural Development

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 07:39:07 GMT

[Cameroon Tribune] The North West Development Authority is on the path of creating wealth with an impressive equipment pool.

Gambia: Lack of Subvention to Local Councils From Central Government Hold Back Area Development

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 07:32:28 GMT

[Foroyaa] Local councilors have decried that the lack of subvention from the central government is slowing down their developmental goals.

Gambia: NCCE Trains VDCs, WDCs On Local Govt Act 2002

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 07:32:22 GMT

[Foroyaa] The training of over three hundred and twenty (320) Village Development (VDC) and Ward Development Committees (WDC) on the Local Government Act 2002 commenced on Tuesday.

Ghana: How Accra Tackled Complex Challenges in an Urban Slum

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 05:31:49 GMT

[The Conversation Africa] When I first heard about the community of Old Fadama in Accra, Ghana, I recognised something. A Ghanaian Catholic sister who visited the green market weekly in that neighbourhood told me about it. She worried about a community of vulnerable migrant women known as "head porters" or kayayei, who earned a pittance transporting heavy items balanced on their heads.

Africa: Afro-Pop Star Yemi Alade to Promote Women's Empowerment and a Green Covid-19 Recovery ...

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 15:53:03 GMT

[UNDP] New York -- Having risen to the top of a male-dominated industry, Nigerian singer-songwriter Yemi Alade was today appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Ethiopia: Living Proof for Making the Dead Alive - the Case of Lake Haramaya

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 11:38:57 GMT

[Ethiopian Herald] Human being's ill-advised intervention with nature and ineffective mistreatment of resources has so far been causing losses of the vital natural resources, water and soil, which will definitely leave the future of the next generation in severe peril.

Ethiopia: Developing Tourism Destinations, Advance Sustainable Development

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 11:38:47 GMT

[Ethiopian Herald] Ethiopia is endowed with the richest biodiversity, unique landscape, classy forests, snow-capped peaks and arid deserts. The varied flora embraces the world's most extensive tracts, along with a varied mix of forest, savannah, desert and cultivation.

Africa: South African President Warns Pandemic Has Set Back African Development

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 10:45:34 GMT

[UN News] Despite the continent-wide approach taken by African countries to combat COVID-19, the pandemic has set back their development aspirations, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa told world leaders at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.