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The Government of Sierra Leone on Monday, October 3, 2022, introduced the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine to the routine immunisation schedule and launched the start of a campaign to reach 153,991 girls with the vaccine. Apart from being a move to protect adolescent girls from cervical cancer, the introduction ...

Stellantis is collaborating with researchers, scientists and engineers around the world – one of the largest networks of cooperative innovation – to speed the development and implementation of ground-breaking technologies to help the Company deliver the goals of the Dare Forward 2030 strategic plan, including reaching carbon net zero emissions ...

Routine childhood immunisation experienced another challenging year in 2021 across the 57 countries supported by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, as basic vaccine coverage fell 1 percentage point to 77%, according to Gavi’s 2021 Annual Progress Report, which is published on Thursday. However, preliminary data for the first five months of ...

Making sense of the QCTO and the impact it will have on Skills Development  In the ever-evolving Education and Training landscape, Skills Development in South Africa is gearing up for some major changes as the Quality Council for Trades and Occupations (QCTO) moves toward implementing a single National Quality Assurance ...

Allianz Trade economic outlook predicts a better position for commodity exporters in Africa   In 2023, the energy crisis and rising interest rates will drag global GDP growth down to just +1.5%, as slow as it was in 2008. It’s the latest forecasts provided by Allianz Trade, which operates through ...

Road safety plays an integral part in the sustainability and transformation of the road transport system, and everyone needs to apply sustainability practices and reporting, says Claes Tingvall, globally recognised as the “godfather” of the Vision Zero road-safe systems paradigm. Tingvall, who has published more than 150 scientific articles on ...

Tetra Pak,  a world-leading food processing and packaging solutions company, has announced its 23rd Sustainability Report highlighting the company’s achievements and progress actions designed to help realise sustainable food systems in the last one year. The sustainability report underscores the need for a radical approach to defining the way we ...

By Walter Duru, Ph.D Just like many other members of the Nigerian delegation, I felt very proud to be a Nigerian, when, at the 2022 ID4Africa Conference in Marrakech, Morocco, my dearly beloved country was celebrated for leading the Identity revolution in Africa. The message was very clear; the ovation ...

With nearly 100 days to go before its 2022 edition opens, organisers of the EQUIP AUTO Paris, the reference trade event for innovation in automotive aftersales and services for connected mobility, have announced the reservation of 95 per cent of its 80,000 sqm surface area, and gives full details on its ...

The Legatum Institute’s 2021 Prosperity Index has found that in Sub-Saharan Africa “prosperity has improved for the 11th year in a row” with the rate of extreme poverty falling from 49.9% to 42.3%. According to the Index, 40 out of the 49 countries in the region have seen an increase in ...