Tag: External Relations
Africa: Tobacco – Can Smoke-Free Products Contribute to Improved Public Health?
Paris — On February 17th, 2021, Philip Morris International (PMI) held an online event entitled " Can scientifically substantiated smoke-free products contribute to public health outcomes?". This event was the third of its « Open Science Conference series » aimed at discussing and sharing the latest...
Africa: Newly Confirmed UN Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield Among Top Africa Experts in Biden-Harris Government
Washington, DC — The U.S. Senate has voted to confirm Linda Thomas-Greenfield as United States ambassador to the United Nations. The vote was 78-20. The veteran diplomat is the Cabinet-level member of the Biden-Harris team with the most extensive Africa resume. Her 35-year career in...
Africa: WHO Director-General’s Opening Remarks At Press Conference With H.E. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Federal President of Germany – 22 February 2021
Vielen dank, Herr Bundespräsident, for your kind words, and thank you so much for your leadership and partnership. As His Excellency said, we have just had a very constructive discussion about the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and about how we can strengthen the...
Africa: Macron Pledges to Share Covid Vaccines With Poorer Nations, Urges G7 to Join Him
French President Emmanuel Macron has called on rich Western nations to transfer 3-5 percent of their Covid-19 vaccines to Africa and developing countries elsewhere, ahead of Friday's G7 summit. The presidency confirmed that France would share five percent of its stock with Africa -...
Africa Is Getting Ready to Roll Out Covid-19 Vaccines
Brazzaville — Africa marked the move from planning to action in the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines at a World Health Organization (WHO)-hosted African Health Ministers meeting on 17 February, as a rapid vaccine rollout is expected in the wake of the WHO listing of...
Africa: Covid-19 – How Five Hardest Hit African Countries Are Coping
Deaths from COVID-19 in Africa have surged by 40 per cent in the past month. On February 14, 2020, Egypt became the first African country to record a COVID-19 case. The virus has since spread to the other 53 countries in the continent. In many African...
Africa: Angola Defends UN Activities Adjustment
Luanda — Angola defended Monday in New York the adjustment of the UN-Women activities, in order to help the member states, mainly Africans, to reach "relevant tangible results" for the current Covid-19 context. This standing was expressed by Angola's permanent representative to the United Nations,...
Africa: WHO Lists Two Additional COVID-19 Vaccines for Emergency Use and COVAX Roll-out
Geneva — AstraZeneca/Oxford-developed vaccines to reach countries in the coming weeks The World Health Organization (WHO) today listed two versions of the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, giving the green light for these vaccines to be rolled out globally through COVAX.The vaccines are produced...
Africa: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, WTO and Africa
Tomorrow, February 15, 2020, Nigeria's former Finance Minister Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, will be formally appointed as the director-general of the World Trade Organisation, WTO. This is coming after the United States dropped its opposition to her selection. Nosa James-Igbinadolor looks at what Africa's relationship...