JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN- 25 APRIL: Nicholas Haysom arrived in Juba today to take up his role as the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). After completing mandatory quarantine in compliance with local COVID-19 protocols, he will begin a busy... Read more

The second session of the IDM will be held under the theme Finding Balance in Regular Migration Pathways Solutions to driving Sustainable Development and Green Transitions. Photo: IOM/Mohammed Muse 2024  GENEVA, Switzerland, 27 November 2024 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- In a world facing unprecedented levels of forced migration, climate-induced displacement, and deepening... Read more

African Media Agency becomes second partner on African continent CORK, IRELAND, 26 November 2024 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- IPREX Global President, and Founder and Chief Executive of AM O’Sullivan PR, Ann-Marie O’Sullivan, has announced the onboarding of IPREX’s newest partner, African Media Agency. IPREX is the premier global network of independent communications... Read more

itilayo Adewumi, Regional Sales Director for West Africa at SAP LAGOS, Nigeria, 26 November 2024 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- The African Medical Centre of Excellence (AMCE) has chosen SAP and Converge Solutions as its technology partners to deliver a cutting-edge Hospital Information System. Brian Deaver, CEO at AMCE, says the partnership... Read more

ZAMBIA, Lusaka, 26 November 2024 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- A groundbreaking study by 1Day Africa, the African chapter of U.S. public health nonprofit 1Day Sooner, has revealed the high cost-effectiveness of the new R21 malaria vaccine compared to existing interventions such as insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs), seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC), and mosquito control strategies. The... Read more

Mati Diop | ©Henry-Roy CAIRO, Egypt, 26 November 2024 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- Narrative change organization Africa No Filter and Cairo International Film Festival awarded a new prize, Africa Narrative Change Film Award, to Dahomey, a documentary that follows 26 royal treasures of the Kingdom of Dahomey as they leave Paris to return to... Read more

TRIPOLI, Libya, 26 November 2024 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- In an online workshop, held as part of UNSMIL’s YouEngage programme, twenty-four young men and women from across Libya discussed ways to combat the prevalent issue of hate speech in Libya, particularly on social media. The eleven young men, and thirteen... Read more

GENEVA, Switzerland, 25 November 2024 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- Gender-based violence persists as one of the most appalling violations of human rights. It also thwarts efforts to end AIDS as a public health threat because intimate partner violence is linked with a heightened risk of HIV acquisition among women and undermines... Read more

As part of the challenge organised by France’s Defence Innovation Agency (AID) to detect images created by today’s AI platforms, the teams at cortAIx, Thales’s AI accelerator, have developed a metamodel capable of detecting AI-generated deepfakes. The Thales metamodel is built on an aggregation of models, each of which... Read more

Summary Researchers from Target Malaria have published a new mathematical modelling study evaluating the potential impact of gene drive technology on malaria incidence in West Africa.The study projects that gene drives could reduce mosquito malaria vector populations by 71% to 98%, leading to significant decreases in malaria cases —... Read more