By: WASH R&E “Media” Network – As the raining season starts in Liberia, people residing in slum communities especially in and around Monrovia are now worried because their respective communities stand the risk of been flooded or polluted mostly due to poor sanitary and drainage conditions. Many of these slum communities lack decent toilet facilities coupled with serious problems of waste management and the constant misuse of drainages thereby putting them at risk. Residents of these communities always experience serious health hazards during the heavy down pour of rain. One of such community is the Bong Mines Bridge Area/king Peters... Continue Reading
LUSAKA, Zambia, May, 2014/ — IBM (NYSE:IBM) (http://www.ibm.com) today announced a collaboration with the Zambian Ministry of Health to provide citizens with improved access to 200 lifesaving drugs. Supported by the World Bank, the Department for International Development, UNICEF and London Business School, Zambia’s Medical Stores Limited (MSL) will deploy a new medical supply chain pilot project using sophisticated analytics and mobile technologies to better manage medicine inventory and delivery. The public health sector in Zambia registers 100,000 deaths annually due to preventable and treatable diseases. The goal of the medicine supply chain management project is to save more lives by making medicine... Continue Reading
Three runners have taken it upon themselves to run the distance of 10 Comrades Marathons in 10 consecutive days, ending off their journey by running the official Comrades Marathon on the 1st of June. These three crazy soldiers have created a charity drive called Ten10 Challenge, in aid to raise much needed funds for two South African charities – the PinkDrive and Pets in Townships. “The Comrades marathon occupies a special place in the South African soul. It’s an epic ultra marathon that many runners aspire to complete each year. Even international runners eye the Comrades and a must do in... Continue Reading
By Shout-Africa Correspondent – The government of Tanzania through its delivery and transformation programme, the Big Result Now (BRN), is moving fast to boost small scale agriculture in Tanzania and called all partners to collaborate. That was said yesterday in Dar es Salaam by the Chief Executive Officer of the President’s Delivery Bureau (PDB) which oversees the BRN Programme, Mr. Omari Issa. Mr. Issa said that when chairing a meeting with visiting members of the Executive Board of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). The IFAD Fund is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) created in 1974... Continue Reading
The Wars in Future will be fought over Water!” – Boutros Boutros-Ghali, former SG of the UN Nestlé Sucks the Pure Life out of You Do you know how to turn ordinary water into a billion-dollar business? In Switzerland there’s a company which has developed the art to perfection – Nestlé. This company dominates the global business in bottled water. Swiss journalist Res Gehringer has investigated this money-making phenomena. Nestlé refused to cooperate, on the pretext that it was “the wrong film at the wrong time”. So Gehringer went on a journey of exploration, researching the story in the USA, Nigeria... Continue Reading
