COP28: Global donors pledge $777m to defeat neglected tropical diseases in Africa

Global donors pledged Sunday December 3 at the 2023 Reaching the Last Mile Forum, held part of the ongoing COP28 in the UAE, a collective $777.2 million to help control, eliminate, and eradicate neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in Africa. The event hosted by Reaching the Last Mile (RLM), the global health initiative driven by the […]

Settlement of Sahara conflict conducive to peace, development, prosperity in whole region, letter to President Biden outlines

Joining their voice to that of politicians and elected representatives from Africa, Europe and Latin American, civil society activists have also stressed the importance of supporting the Moroccan autonomy initiative as a serious, credible and objective mechanism and as the only basis to achieve a just and lasting solution to the artificial conflict over the […]

Tunisia: Japan’s space agency engineers detained at Carthage airport for possessing satellite blueprint

Tunisian customs detained Tuesday for several hours a group of Japanese space engineers upon arrival at Carthage international airport in possession of a satellite blueprint mistakenly taken for a spying device, reports say. The engineers, according to Tunisian Space Association, were interrogated for two hours and they were only released following the intervention of the […]