The seventh Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), SDG7, aims to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all. However, those nations which remain most off the grid, are set to enter 2030 without meeting this goal unless efforts are significantly scaled up, warns the new study entitled Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report, published […]
Continue ReadingAddis Ababa June 5/2021 (ENA) Some two billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been distributed globally but only 0.5 per cent has reached low-income countries where frontline health workers and the elderly have yet to receive a shot, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. Head of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A) […]
Continue ReadingAbout the webinar: With new reforms underway in Ethiopia, and with the production of quality and competitive products for export and the domestic market in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sector being a key focus area of the nation’s Ten Year Perspective Development Plan, opportunities exist for investment and trade in this sector. This webinar is […]
Continue ReadingOperational Context It is fourteen months since the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in the East and Horn of Africa, and the Great Lakes (EHAGL) in March 2020. While the situation continues to evolve, the region is still relatively less impacted than the rest of the continent. As of 4 May 2021, there were […]
Continue ReadingAuthorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have placed thousands of people under COVID-19 restrictions, amid reports of adverse reactions to homegrown coronavirus vaccines in northern China. Mass testing is under way in some areas of Guangzhou, as well as in the nearby cities of Foshan and Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong, the Guangzhou […]
Continue ReadingAn earthquake in a Tibetan-populated county of northwest China’s Qinghai province has killed at least 20 people and injured more than 300, although authorities have yet to confirm any deaths and are blocking information flows from the region, Tibetan sources say. The 7.3 magnitude quake struck Qinghai’s Matoe (in Chinese, Maduo) county on May 22, […]
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