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Diageo Country Representative,  Lilami Lilami, and Shoprite Lewanika Branch Manager, Queen  Njobvu during the second draw of the Johnnie Walker Win a Car competition on December 31, 2024. During the draw, Mr Nerves Mumba emerged as winner of the second car in the competition. Source link

KAMPALA, UGANDA | Xinhua | The number of cholera cases in Uganda has risen to 67 since the disease outbreak was announced in the northern part of the country on Jan. 7, the Ministry of Health said Friday. Daniel Kyabayinze, director of public health at the Ministry of Health, told reporters that out of the 67 cases, seven are laboratory confirmed, while the rest remain suspected cases. Of the 67, all reported in the northern border district of Lamwo, 21 remain hospitalized, while the rest have been treated and discharged, Kyabayinze said, adding that one death has been registered. He said it is suspected that the disease was imported into the country from neighboring countries. “The disease has spread through poor hygiene and using contaminated water in areas which have low coverage of latrines and toilets,” Kyabayinze said. “We have so far lost one person due to cholera. The treatment...

L’annonce d’un cessez-le-feu entre les parties au conflit dans la bande de Gaza a été accueillie favorablement par l’UNICEF, qui appelle à une action immédiate pour répondre aux besoins humanitaires colossaux de la population, particulièrement des enfants. Catherine Russell, directrice générale de l’UNICEF, a qualifié cette décision de “nécessaire depuis bien trop longtemps”. Elle a rappelé que les enfants de Gaza ont payé un tribut effroyable, avec “au moins 14 500 morts, des milliers de blessés, 17 000 enfants non accompagnés ou séparés de leurs parents, et près d’un million déplacés”. Le conflit a engendré une crise humanitaire sans précédent. Selon l’UNICEF, moins de la moitié des 36 hôpitaux de Gaza sont encore opérationnels, exacerbant les risques d’épidémies comme la poliomyélite et le choléra. De plus, la production d’eau potable est tombée à 25 % de sa capacité, tandis que “95 % des établissements scolaires ont été endommagés ou détruits”....

Monrovia — The Director General of the African Centers for Disease Control, Jean Kaseya, has said the center stands ready to support Tanzania and other countries in the region where suspected cases of the infectious Marburg Virus Disease have been identified. The World Health Organization earlier this week issued an alert warning of a possible outbreak in the country, although the Tanzanian Health Ministry has said tests conducted on available samples did not show the existence of Marburg in the East African nation. “As of the 15 of January 2025, laboratory results from all suspected individuals were negative for Marburg Virus,” Tanzanian Health Minister Jenista Mhagama said in a statement. This would have marked the country’s second experience with the highly infectious disease that recently killed over a dozen people in neighboring Rwanda. Tanzania previously reported an outbreak of Marburg in 2023 in the  Kegara region, said to have been...

Washington D.C. — The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions on Abdelfattah El Burhan, the commander-in-chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and chairperson of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereignty Council. This move follows the designation of Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commander Mohamed ‘Hemedti’ Dagalo to the sanctions list on January 7. In a press release yesterday, the Treasury Department accused the SAF, under Burhan’s leadership, of deadly attacks on civilians, including airstrikes on protected sites such as schools, markets, and hospitals. The SAF has also been charged with deliberately denying humanitarian access and using food as a weapon of war. OFAC’s designation, issued under Executive Order 14098, identifies Burhan as a foreign individual leading an entity that threatens Sudan’s peace, security, and stability. In December 2023, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken determined that SAF members had committed war crimes. The US government has accused...

Mbabane, Eswatini — As Mozambique grapples with a political crisis following a disputed national election and violent protests, the situation at its southern border with South Africa is increasingly volatile, affecting trade and travel. The violence in Mozambique forced trade and travel to be diverted from South Africa’s Leebombo Border Post to Eswatini’s Mananga Border Post, with Mananga serving as a makeshift lifeline for those seeking passage from Mozambique. Michael Masiapato, commissioner of South Africa’s Border Management Authority, told VOA that although authorities are managing the crisis, it continues to pose significant challenges. “Even … when they deploy the military and when they deploy police officers on the corridor [between the capital, Maputo, and the border], it is not able to cover each and every area,” he said. The protests, he said, are “very much sporadic” and “very much widespread.” Following presidential candidate Daniel Chapo’s controversial election victory Monday, Mozambique...

Egypt has rejected presence by non-littoral states on the Red Sea coast, raising speculation about what it might be up to next, especially with diligent attempts by landlocked Ethiopia to be commercially and militarily present on the same coast. Egypt’s latest rejection of Ethiopian presence on the Red Sea comes at a time of high diplomacy in the region, with Turkey stepping into the row over this presence. [Getty] At a press briefing with his Ethiopian and Eritrean counterparts in Cairo, Egyptian Foreign Minister, Badr Abdelatty, said Red Sea security is the preserve of littoral states only. “We will not accept any [foreign] military presence [on the Red Sea coast],” the Egyptian minister said on 11 January. The minister’s remarks were Egypt’s latest confirmation of rejection of Ethiopian attempts to gain access to the Red Sea through Berbera Port in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland, around 1,553 nautical miles away from the...