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Aljazeera ON January 20, Zimbabweans were shocked to hear the news of the death of Foreign Affairs Minister Sibusiso Moyo, the latest government official to succumb to Covid-19. The 61-year-old, who rose to fame after appearing on state television on November 15, 2017, to announce the military coup that overthrew longtime President Robert Mugabe, died at a private hospital in the capital, Harare, days after testing positive for coronavirus. Moyo was the third cabinet minister to have died of Co...

Harare, Zimbabwe – On January 20, Zimbabweans were shocked to hear the news of the death of Foreign Affairs Minister Sibusiso Moyo, the latest government official to succumb to COVID-19. The 61-year-old, who rose to fame after appearing on state television on November 15, 2017, to announce the military coup that overthrew longtime President Robert Mugabe, died at a private hospital in the capital, Harare, days after testing positive for coronavirus. Moyo was the third cabinet minister to have...

Vanguard News Again, Nigeria gets it wrong on tobacco control funding On By Philip Jakpor Nigeria’s 2021 national budget has not disappointed pessimists. Like previous years public health was relegated to the back seat in terms of priority and funding. The breakdown of the approved budget shows that the health sector received only N547 billion, representing about seven per cent of the budget’s total of N13.58 trillion. This meagre allocation falls far short of the 15 per cent recommended b...

COVID-19 vaccines. Credit: RDIF/Cover-Images.com Coronavirus vaccines deployment, fight against climate change, ambitious agenda for space science to continue in 2021 The year 2020 cannot be mentioned without the impact of COVID-19. In fact, 2020 is synonymous with COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic exposed the shortcomings of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the global community as well as Nigeria’s fragile and under funded health care delivery system. Also, the Federal Government for t...

Coronavirus vaccines deployment, fight against climate change, ambitious agenda for space science to continue in 2021 The year 2020 cannot be mentioned without the impact of COVID-19. In fact, 2020 is synonymous with COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic exposed the shortcomings of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the global community as well as Nigeria’s fragile and under funded health care delivery system. Also, the Federal Government for the umpteenth time, in 2020, failed to meet the Ab...

The East African Wednesday December 30 2020 Medics attend to a Covid-19 patient in the Kenyatta National Hospital’s isolation wards at the Infectious Diseases Unit, Mbagathi Hospital, Nairobi, in April, 2020. PHOTO | FILE | NMG Summary The continents development will be shaped by how well it can protect against, control, and provide a public health response to current and future pandemics. By GITHINJI GITAHI In the mid-1300s, humanity was struck by a deadly pandemic. Spread by fleas and flea...

2021 National Budget – the Good and the Bad December 14, 2020 Zimbabwe’s 2021 national budget set a taxing agenda with a 126% jump in budgeted revenues from ZW$173 billion (About US$2.12 billion) anticipated in 2020 to ZW$391.8 billion (US$4.8 billion) budgeted for 2021. The high revenue target is supported by sharp increases in sin taxes (Levied on wines, tobacco, spirits and beer), increase in fuel import duty, widening of presumptive taxes on selected self-employed professionals and Sma...

Daily Monitor Sunday December 13 2020 To mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale, the World Health Organisation (WHO) designated 2020 as ‘International Year of the Nurse and Midwife’ to pay a well-deserved tribute to one of the most important professions which has sadly lost its glory.  Despite the critical role they play in Uganda, nurses and midwives are treated badly by the corrupt and decadent regime which has been imposed on Ugandans by deceit and force for alm...

Abuja Declaration: broken promises African nations have largely defaulted on a 2001 pledge to commit at least 15% of their annual budgets to healthcare Africa has so far seen controversial and even dramatic policy measures in response to the coronavirus crisis. From Tanzania withholding infection and fatality data as the government pushed conspiracy theories, to Egypt’s clampdown on citizens disagreeing with the government’s handling of the pandemic, to Madagascar’s promotion of a botanic...