Oseyiza Oogbodo Blog

Theresa May, UK Prime Minister Hundreds of thousands of people in sub-Saharan Africa will get access to electricity for the first time thanks to an extra £100m of funding from the UK government announced at COP24 in Poland.

UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, and NGO partners, are seeking $2.7bn to address the life-saving humanitarian needs of South Sudanese refugees in 2019 and 2020.

Cyril Ramaphosa, President, South Africa The South African mission in Shanghai has informed the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Lindiwe Sisulu that the seven South African nationals in Jiangsu Province have completed their detention period and will be released and deported back to South Africa.

Ghana’s Environmental Sanitation and Health Directorate under the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources, UNICEF and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands have launched an innovative and affordable loan scheme for people living in urban areas to build their own household toilet.

At its 60th anniversary celebrations this week in Addis Ababa, the Economic Commission for Africa launched the Africa Poverty Clock.

In affirmation of its commitment to the Paris COP 21 agreement which is still one of the world’s major issues, Cote d’Ivoire has unveiled a fleet of buses which will be fuelled by compressed natural gas.

A year on from the brutal killings of 15 Tanzanian United Nations peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the head of peacekeeping operations paid a visit to some of the victims’ families recently to honour the memory of the soldiers who died in what was the biggest single loss of ‘blue helmets’ in recent history.

Belgium and Guinea have signed a new five-year cooperation programme to work together on strengthening entrepreneurship, women's rights and education.

The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) has approved an additional funding support of €115m to Rwanda’s Sustainable Water Supply and Sanitation Program, enabling 1.5 million people to access improved, reliable and sustainable water supply services.

Paul Kagame, President, African Union African leaders have been reminded to honour their commitment to allocate 10 percent of their budgets to agriculture if the continent is to improve food security, reduce poverty and spur economic growth.