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“There are many who don't wish to sleep for fear of nightmares. Sadly, there are many who don't wish to wake for the same fear.” (Richelle Goodrich) It's two [...]
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Nelly Ali sometimes carries a magic wand in her bag. She uses Twitter to fundraise for clothes for those kids (Cairo street children and mothers). She's [...]
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Every single day, people die of epidemics and diseases. Every single day, people kill each other over differences in beliefs and cultures. Every single day, souls leave [...]
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If you tell me that banks are institutions solely responsible for financial transactions such as lending and investing and their primary objective is the maximization [...]
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Out of the 91 million people who make up the total population of Egypt, only 83 million currently live in Egypt, according to the [...]
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In many sub-Saharan African especially countries (DR Congo, South Africa, [...]
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In April last year, Daily Monitor, one of Uganda’s daily newspapers reported that the country was spending at least shillings 380 billion ($150 [...]
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Let’s face it- healthcare is not the top priority of many of our governments. At least in the Middle East, it certainly isn’t. Many patients in Egypt resort to private [...]
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Around three-quarters of the world’s inhabitants now have access to a mobile phone and the mobile communications story is moving to a new level, which is not so much about [...]
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Notwithstanding improvements in the past couple of years, health-care delivery in most part of the sub-Saharan African region remains in great jeopardy. A recent research [...]
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I was catching up on articles early this morning when I saw a tribute Dr Ojia Adamolekun wrote for her elder brother who died in 2004 after a [...]
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The content package of this post relates to the “Death Threat,” and addresses non-communicable diseases. The one I want to speak about is poverty. Because all the [...]
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In 2010, the prevalence rate of tuberculosis in North Korea was 399 per 100,000 people. This is alarming given that Ghana, another developing country with the same population of 24 [...]
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During my recent visit to Soroti in Eastern Uganda which is 350 km from Kampala, I was overwhelmed by incidences of child marriage, cases of rape and defilement which are [...]
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The International Olympic Committee is certainly not bashful about proclaiming its lofty ideals. The Olympics, it says, is about placing sport – silver platter style – at the “service of [...]
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), malaria caused an estimated 655,000 deaths (with an uncertainty range of 537,000 to 907,000), mostly among African children in 2010. WHO’s [...]
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In his lead article, Death Threat, Daniel Kapellmann aptly indicated that, “NCDs (non-communicable diseases) are the main cause [...]
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Egypt has a population topping 80million. Most of that number is huddled around the Nile River as it makes its long, winding journey across the east of the country, [...]
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Floods, droughts, desertification, coastal storms and famine are just a few of the impacts of climate change in Africa. Climate change is endangering the lives and livelihoods of millions of [...]
