September 2021

Floods and other natural disasters in Burkina Faso have claimed no fewer than nine lives and injured 87 people since August, authorities disclosed Thursday.

More than 20,000 people have been affected and ‘major damage has been seen, notably with homes destroyed and public infrastructure damaged,’ according to minutes of a cabinet meeting which was sighted by Africa Daily News, New York.

Nine were killed, while 12 of the 87 injured were in a serious condition, a statement read.

Communication Minister of the West African country who was identified as Ousseni Tamboura, who is also a government spokesman, said the victims …

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday declared an epidemic of meningitis in northeastern DR Congo, where 129 people have reportedly died in the last few days.

No fewer than 261 suspected cases have been recorded so far, amounting to a ‘high case fatality ratio of 50 percent,’ the WHO’s Africa branch disclosed in a statement.

‘Confirmatory tests carried out by the Institut Pasteur in Paris detected Neisseria meningitidis -– one of the most frequent types of bacterial meningitis with the potential to cause large epidemics,’ it said.

Africa Daily News, New York understands that Meningitis is an infection of …

The Sout-West Zonal Secretary as well as Lagos State Secretary of the Myetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, Maikudi Usman, has pleaded with the Lagos State Government to give the association more time to sensitise its members about the new law on open grazing that will soon be in place.

Usman made the appeal on Wednesday at a Public hearing on a bill for a law to prohibit open cattle grazing Lagos State, the trespass of Cattle on land, and for other connected purposes organised by the Lagos State House of Assembly.

Stating that it would be more expensive to breed …