Financing healthy, equitable, and sustainable food systems: Laying out options for action.
Stories & Blogs IFPRIJun 30, 2025(Blog )Food systems transformation cannot happen without expanding, changing, and reimagining how it is financed..
As the world looks away, women suffer in silence
Stories & Blogs OCHAJun 25, 2025(News )Donors’ brutal funding cuts to humanitarian aid are having a devastating impact on programmes that specifically support women and girls at risk of gender-based violence.
Lesotho leads Africa in health innovation: pilots AFFLU Influenza Surveillance Platform.
Stories & Blogs WHO – AfricaJun 10, 2025(News )Lesotho has become the first nation in the WHO African Region to pilot the Afro Influenza (AFFLU) surveillance platform.
The gendered response to farmer-herder violent conflict in Nigeria.
Stories & Blogs IFPRIJun 03, 2025(Blog )The gendered response to farmer-herder violent conflict in Nigeria.
Outbreak of variant type 1 polio in Madagascar declared over
Stories & Blogs WHO – AfricaMay 20, 2025(News )Madagascar has successfully halted the transmission of variant poliovirus type 1, following recommendations from a rigorous, independent Outbreak Response Assessment (OBRA) to declare the outbreak closed.
Professor Mohamed Yakub Janabi of Tanzania nominated as next director of WHO African Region.
Stories & Blogs WHO – AfricaMay 18, 2025(News )The Special Session by Member States of the WHO African Region to elect the next Regional Director was agreed upon and organized following the sudden and untimely death of Regional Director-elect, Dr Faustine Ndugulile in November 2024.
Malawi: Safe spaces nurture drought-affected women and girls.
Stories & Blogs OCHAApr 28, 2025(News )"I am happy I was able to return to school after giving birth," said Thokozani, 20, from Balaka district, southern Malawi.
Mali pioneers novel hybrid vaccine delivery approach to combat malaria.
Stories & Blogs WHO – AfricaApr 25, 2025(News )On World Malaria Day, Mali’s Ministry of Health, with support from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi), UNICEF and World Health Organization (WHO), launched a first-of-its-kind malaria vaccine delivery approach, aiming to reach children aged 5 to 36 months.
Digitalization is revolutionising Mozambique’s malaria response.
Stories & Blogs WHO – AfricaApr 25, 2025(News )Filipe BasÃlio, officer in charge of monitoring and evaluation in Mozambique’s malaria programme in the northern Nampula Province recalls the laborious task of data collection and analysis in his day-to-day work.
Vaccination progress helps save millions of lives in African region
Stories & Blogs WHO – AfricaApr 24, 2025(News )An increase in vaccine coverage in Africa is helping protect millions of people from life-threatening diseases such as measles, polio and cervical cancer.