African Union To Open African Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
The health institution will allow the continent to be able to quickly detect, prevent and response effectively to health threats and disease outbreaks.
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The health institution will allow the continent to be able to quickly detect, prevent and response effectively to health threats and disease outbreaks.
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Ms. Antoinette Sayer has been instrumental in shaping some of the Fund’s recent policy reforms, in particular, changing the Fund’s approach to the African continent.
Continue reading The U.S. urges the international community to quickly rally around the government of Malawi to help meet immediate needs as well as take steps to build resilience to recurring droughts.
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African governments and people need to open their eyes and be aware that land, food and water need to be treasured and valued as other valuable natural resources.
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In the Africa of yore, it was simply enough for women to be satisfied with traditional roles of raising children, cooking and other roles assigned to them by their respective society. Those roles have traditionally greased the ambitious wheels of their husband and male counterparts, and often in the past led to discriminations, repressions and subjugations of women by men. Right now, a cultural shift is taking place among men- fathers are now valuing their daughters as much as their they valued sons and thus encouraging girls to pursue education and work outside of home, and as a result, there are a new breed of leaders in Africa: Women.
In the last decade, Africa now counts a historic five female presidents. Rwanda- the once war-torn country now ranks highest in Africa as the most inclusive society for women in sub-Saharan Africa for having women majority in its parliament.
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