The nation is challenging Britain to take the lead and increase funding and support to Somalia, saying that was the most important issue in the Horn of Africa region at the moment.
President Mwai Kibaki told visiting United Kingdom Minister for Africa and Commonwealth Office Hon. Henry Bellingham that delayed resourses and commitments including that [...]
Onchocerciasis (more commonly known as River Blindness) is one of the biggest causes of blindness in Africa, yet the continent’s continued struggle against the neglected tropical disease (NTD) goes largely unnoticed.
However, the growth of the ailment is being stunted through work by the development NGO Sightsavers. It claims to have already distributed 150million of treatments [...]
A study on mice release Wed 14th July 2010 has revealed that high risk malaria sufferers could be cured by taking antibiotic drugs.
According to British, Kenyan and German scientists, the drugs could provide protection against malaria infections, by allowing healthy people to develop immunity against malaria parasites.
However, the drug is only recommended to be given [...]
When you type ‘Rwanda’ into an Internet search engine the second option that usually surfaces is the ‘Rwandan Genocide’. This 1994 event dominates contemporary knowledge of the nation, as we seem to hear of little else.
The Rwandan Higher Commissioner Ernest Rwamucyo echoes this sentiment. In a recent meeting with New Africa Analysis he was keen [...]
Between 2003 and 2007, Nigeria registered an average of 1,000 cases of polio each year. This year, however, just three cases of the dreaded disease have been registered in the country so far. This sharp decline is extremely significant because communities were reluctant to have the polio vaccine given to children in Nigeria just a [...]
The National Institute of Health and the Wellcome Trust announced in a June 22nd London conference that they are to create a partnership to support genetic studies in Africa. Their project is called H³ Africa, which stands for Human Heredity and Health in Africa. It is the first case of population based genetic studies carried [...]
Prime Minister Raila Odinga has been hospitalized Wed 23rd June in the capital Nairobi, in what his office maintains is fatigue. However independent authoritative sources told New Africa Analysis that he underwent a head surgery to remove a blood clot on the surface of his brain.
Though his spokesman Dennis Onyango told a press briefing [...]
Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, gave the Kick Polio Out of Africa (KPOA) campaign a boost Monday 7th June by signing the football that traveled from Cape Town to Egypt ahead of the 2010 World Cup.
During the ball’s epic journey through 22 polio-affected and high-risk countries, Rotary clubs throughout Africa [...]
President Jacob Zuma of South Africa is leading calls for the creation of a new global financial architecture that will have the capacity to insulate more vulnerable countries in the developing world in the future from the maelstrom caused by the present financial crisis.
In his address at the XV Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in the [...]
Military forces from 20 countries in West and Central Africa have launched a regional HIV network to share information on combating HIV within their ranks and communities. It follows the example of other military-led efforts to fight the spread of HIV.
‘We need to harmonize our interventions,’ army captain Sami Kambiré from Burkina Faso told IRIN. [...]
