© WHO/Benjamin Sensasi Tanzania has confirmed its first-ever outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease. (file) New York, USA, 22 March 2023-/African Media Agency(AMA)/Tanzania confirmed its first-ever cases of Marburg Virus Disease after conducting laboratory tests in the country’s northwest Kagera region, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement on... Read more

© Pacifique Akilimali/Maryam Abu Hassan – Poet Pacifique Akilimali of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Nigerian peace activist and poet Maryam Abu Hassan. New York, USA, 21 March 2023-/African Media Agency(AMA)/“Across identities and differences…  over countries and continents… it is not hard to choose peace.” These lines are... Read more

WASHINGTON DC, United States of America, 20 March 2022, /African Media Agency/- Africa Fintech Summit is pleased to announce Prosper Africa as a Gold Sponsor for Africa Fintech Summit in 2023 to be held in Washington DC on the 12th April 2023 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Prosper Africa... Read more

© UNICEF/Karin Schermbrucke – Students wash their hands at a newly built handwashing point at a primary school in Pemba District, Zambia. New York, USA, 20 March 2023-/African Media Agency(AMA)/A new analysis from the UN children’s agency, UNICEF, shows that some 190 million children in 10 African countries are at the highest... Read more

Banana Island, off the coast of Yawri Bay, south west of the Freetown Peninsula FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, 17 March 2023 -/African Media Agency (AMA)/Time Magazine has just released its World’s Greatest Places to Visit in 2023, and expectedly Sierra Leone is listed in the top 50 places globally. The... Read more

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 16 March 2023 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- Companies are in a race to achieve new digital capabilities as ongoing economic disruption and a changing business landscape drive the need for rapid innovation. African organisations are accelerating their adoption of cloud solutions to drive greater efficiency, scale into new markets,... Read more

Nine projects from across sub-Saharan Africa named winners of the Afri-Plastics Challenge by the Government of Canada and Challenge Works. Winners include scale-ups providing new income streams to local families collecting recyclables and innovators converting plastic waste into affordable cooking gas. Biodegradable bioplastics made from invasive weeds growing in... Read more

ILO/KB Mpofu – Martha Maocha runs a manufacturing company which started making hand sanitizing gel during the pandemic. It’s sectors like this, reliant on essential workers, that are highlighted in today’s ILO report. New York, USA, 16 March 2023-/African Media Agency(AMA)/Essential workers who kept families, societies and economies going while... Read more

© Parfait Iloki | Ministry of Land Management, Infrastructure and Road Maintenance, Republic of Congo. STORY HIGHLIGHTS The Republic of Congo’s oil-driven growth model has reached its limits, says a new World Bank report, titled The Republic of Congo’s Road to Prosperity: Building Foundations for Economic Diversification. Sustainable development... Read more