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Last minute preparation is underway in Egypt’s seaside resort of Sharm el-Sheikh as it prepares to welcome delegates to this year’s United Nations Climate Conference, COP27. Some 30,000 people representing governments, businesses, NGOs,…

The first in-person WHO Health Assembly since the beginning of the pandemic kicked off in Geneva. Uhuru Kenyatta, whose country is one of the 34 members of the executive board, urged purchasing organizations to prioritize procurement of…

A new textile hall at a museum in Cairo opened to mark World Heritage Day. The exhibition has around 650 items giving visitors of the Museum the chance to see clothes worn through various eras in Egyptian history, going all the way from…

One of the most influential genres of African music and dance, Congolese rumba, is now on UNESCOs intangible heritage list. This is aimed at helping to preserve the heritage that is often threatened. Some 60 applications were…

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, prevalence of HIV is low compared to other countries on the continent but the pandemic has had an effect in the provision of care, One HIV patient speaks about his experience. " Before, we used to…

Environmental activists and World Food Programme officials in Northern Kenya say extreme droughts caused by climate change have turned what used to be a "land of plenty" into one where people are struggling for food. The river in…

The pandemic has made the world more vulnerable to food insecurity, this is the message left by the director-general Qu Dongyu, of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation FAO. Dongyu stated that the effects of the pandemic had pushed…

South Africans living in Alexandra, Johannesburg marked World clean-up Day on Saturday by cleaning the banks of the polluted Jukskei river. The river is a source of drinking water for the residents but there is a serious problem with…

A top priority call to action is to use antimicrobial drugs more sparingly in food systems and markedly reduce the use of drugs that are of greatest importance to treating diseases in humans, animals and plants. Urgent reduction in the…

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Friday it may not have enough funding for the next six months to help millions of people in Myanmar facing food insecurity amid a wave of COVID-19 infections and political…