A new tool to map floods around the world, especially those that occur in the Global South, has been launched through a partnership between Google, MapBox, and other players working with a UN University group based in Canada. The World Flood Mapping Tool uses the Google Earth engine combined with…
As the latest step in a broad programme of infrastructural development, Senegalese president Macky Sall inaugurated a new 300-bed level-3 hospital in Touba at the weekend, one of the most modern in West Africa. The completion of the 40-billion-franc Cheikh Ahmadou Khadim hospital is a major boost for Senegal’s healthcare sector,…
World Health Organization leaders responded with shock and sorrow after an independent panel released an investigative report that found widespread sexual abuse committed by workers during the 2020 Ebola outbreak in the country’s east. Malick Coulibaly, a panel member, said the commission interviewed dozens of women who were offered work…
At the UN General Assembly in New York, the Democratic Republic of the Congo President…
Zambia’s overall debt on loans made by Chinese entities is nearly double what was reported…
The Russian foreign ministry confirmed reports that Mali plans to hire contractors with the Wagner…
More than US$73 million has gone missing from the coffers in South Sudan in just…
The World Health Organization issued new guidelines on air pollution Wednesday that dramatically reduce the…
