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Le sous-développement dont souffrent les habitants du Cap-Oriental, la province de l'ancien président sud-africain, mort le 5 décembre 2013, nourrit la désillusion de la population.

Calls grow for independent inquiry after the bank's internal watchdog found 21 cases of child sexual abuse by teaching staffThe World Bank has been accused of failing to prevent child abuse at a school chain it funded in Kenya.The bank's internal watchdog, the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO), found that the bank's International Finance Corporation (IFC) had failed to satisfy its own environmental and social requirements before it started funding Bridge International Academies in 2014, and during its supervision of its investment in the project, which came to an end last year. Continue reading...

Daouda Diallo a disparu « devant le service des passeports à Ouagadougou », emmené « par au moins quatre hommes non identifiés ».

Many women are fighting prejudice to take up better-paid work to make ends meet, from driving a taxi or rickshaw to barberingAt the Owode Ede bus stop, Bunmi Adewale steers her brightly painted yellow auto rickshaw with one hand, using the other to gesture to passengers to hop in. Her rent is due, and she has to get up and be out by 6am, to earn as much as possible. "My job is a challenging one, but I have no choice but to engage in it to fend for my family," says Adewale, a mother of two from Kwara state, in the west of Nigeria.Her husband works as a primary school teacher, earning less than the the minimum wage and, according to Adewale, not enough to cover the needs of their household. Continue reading...

Continent must have more resilient health systems and local vaccine manufacturing to prevent next pandemic, says public health bodyAfrica's leading public health body is using the first ever health day at Cop on 3 December to call for increased funding to fight the health impacts of the climate crisis on the continent and create more resilient systems to ensure it is prepared for the next pandemic.The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) launched the second phase of its three-year, $1.5bn Saving Lives and Livelihoods drive this week, but its director general, Dr Jean Kaseya, said multiple disease outbreaks combined with the growing burden of non-communicable diseases and recovery from Covid means that much more financial support is needed. Continue reading...

Anti-LGBTQ+ laws lead to stigmatism and deny access to lifesaving drugs and servicesAnti-homosexuality laws stop people from accessing lifesaving health services and seriously impede progress on eliminating HIV, a senior UN official has said.Sixty-seven countries have laws that criminalise gay sex, and nearly half are in Africa, the continent most affected by HIV. In those countries, prevalence rates are about five times higher among gay men than in countries where same-sex relations are not criminalised, according to figures from UNAids. Continue reading...

Climate-related disasters disproportionately affect women and girls as reproductive services crumble and gender-based violence risesThe climate crisis threatens the chances of gender equality being achieved in the countries most vulnerable to global heating, the UN has said.As Cop28 opens in Dubai, UNFPA, the UN's reproductive and maternal health agency, released data showing that the 14 countries most at risk from the effects of the climate crisis are also those where women and girls are more likely to die in childbirth, marry early, experience gender-based violence or be displaced by disaster. Continue reading...

New report says disease-carrying mosquitoes thrive in rising temperatures, leading to transmission in hitherto unaffected areasThe climate crisis poses a major threat to the fight against malaria, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), with evidence suggesting extreme weather events and rising temperatures have already led to spikes in cases.Mosquitoes, the carriers of the disease, thrive in warm, damp and humid conditions, which are increasing with global heating. Continue reading...

Réalisées grâce à la collaboration du CHU Le Dantec de Dakar et de l'hôpital militaire de Ouakam, les opérations suscitent l'espoir chez les dialysés, pour qui la maladie est un fardeau physique autant que financier.

Asthma sufferers among those rationing drugs amid shortages and high prices after the pharmaceutical company ceased business in Nigeria this yearSalamat Olashile takes a tablet from a white-and-green sachet. Five minutes later, her breathing is still laboured. "It will soon come down," she says. She used to have an inhaler, which would have eased her asthma attack faster, but prices have increased dramatically since GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) "exited" the country. She is now reliant on a slower-working tablet called Araminol.GlaxoSmithKline Nigeria, the country's subsidiary of the British pharmaceutical firm, first announced in June that Nigeria's economic problems and foreign currency crisis were severely affecting its work. In August, it said that it would be shutting down operations. Continue reading...