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Ethiopia opens up its Forex Market
As a country, Ethiopia marches to the beat of a different drum in quite a number of issues. Historically, the country was never colonised, a fact that shaped its development in various ways, both economically and politically. Economically, the country is in the process of transitioning to a market economy through the liberalisation and […]...
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5 Apr 2024
WHO unveils a digital health promoter harnessing generative AI for public health.
Ahead of World Health Day (Sunday, April 7, 2024), focused on ‘My Health, My Right’, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the launch of S.A.R.A.H., a digital health promoter prototype wit...
16 Sep 2022
WHO responds to The Lancet COVID-19 Commission
News Release by the World Health Organisation WHO welcomes the overarching recommendations of The Lancet COVID-19 Commission’s report on “Lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic,” whic...
15 Jul 2022
COVID-19 pandemic fuels largest continued backslide in vaccinations in three decades
Source: WHO WHO and UNICEF sound the alarm as new data shows global vaccination coverage continued to decline in 2021, with 25 million infants missing out on lifesaving vaccines The largest sustained ...
8 Jul 2022
Why global hunger is not going away soon
Press Relesase by UN The number of people affected by hunger globally rose to as many as 828 million in 2021, an increase of about 46 million since 2020 and 150 million since the outbreak of the COVID...
1 Jul 2022
Healing the health system in Kenya: Health Service Commission headache
Deputy President William Ruto has promised health workers that he will set up a Health Service Commission if he succeeds in his ambitions for the presidency. A Health Service Commission would be a boo...
1 Jul 2022
World Bank Board Approves New Fund for Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (PPR)
News release by World Health Organization The devastating human, economic, and social cost of COVID-19 has highlighted the urgent need for coordinated action to build stronger health systems and mobil...
24 Jun 2022
Fuel subsidy: Why scrapping it is not as easy as it sounds
The Covid-19 pandemic led to the sabotage of the global supply chain hence hiking of fuel prices. This in return led to the spiral effect spilling to other sectors of the economy thus pushing up...
24 Jun 2022
The dilemma in the wake of Covid-19 upsurge and increasing political gatherings
Indoor political meetings are super spreader events for the coronavirus, Health CS Mutahi Kagwe said during a press conference on June 20. What does this mean especially at this time when the politica...
24 Jun 2022
Joint investments in research and development key to getting ahead of antimicrobial resistance
By WHO Antibacterial Pipeline Team Development of new antibacterial treatments is inadequate to address the mounting threat of antibiotic resistance, according to the annual pipeline report by the Wor...
27 May 2022
Redefining manufacturing for a sustainable economy
Manufacturing is a critical sector in Kenya’s economic development in its contribution to both the national output and exports, as well as job creation. Over the past decades, the sector h...
13 May 2022
Economic Survey 2022: A look at ICT sector performance during and after the pandemic
The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) recently released the Economic Survey 2022, detailing how various sectors and job markets performed and offered insight into the post Covid-19 recovery. ...
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