26 APRIL 2016: GENEVA - As efforts to bring an outbreak of yellow fever in Angola under control continue, the World Health Organization is reminding all travellers to the country that they are required to receive the yellow fever vaccination and to have a valid…
21 April 2016 -- More than one million children in Libya have been immunized against polio in a 5-day national campaign concluding today. The campaign is the first to be held in Libya since 2014. Approximately 2000 vaccinators in 600 health facilities around the country…
Pretoria –The Hawks' Narcotics unit have on Thursday arrested four men who were linked to a recent theft at Cleveland police station in Johannesburg. The officers were following up on a lead when three luxurious vehicles were spotted driving in a convoy along the N1…
Chairperson, Minister of Police, Mr. NPT Nhleko and all Colleagues, Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Police, Mr. F. Beukman, Honourable Members of Parliament, All MECs present, A/National Commissioner of Police, Lt. Gen Phahlane & all SAPS members, All National Heads of SAPS Entities (IPID,…
Parliament 21 April 2016 Dr. Pieter Mulder: FF Plus leader The current drought is being described as the worst drought in 100 years. Thousands of small farmers and subsistence farmer's livelihoods have been wiped out. Only in the next six months will we truly be…
Hoër onderwys is veronderstel om waarde toe te voeg tot ʼn persoon se lewe, asook dié van sy gemeenskap en die land as ʼn geheel. Onder die huidige onderwysstelsel raak dit egter toenemend bloot ʼn rubberstempel tot ʼn somber toekoms, sê adv. Anton Alberts, die…
Die Seriti-kommissie se bevinding dat geen bewyse van bedrog of omkopery in dié multimiljardrand-wapentransaksie gevind kon word nie, is ʼn klug en was bloot ʼn vermorsing van belastingbetalers se geld, sê dr. Pieter Groenewald, die VF Plus se hoofwoordvoerder oor Verdediging. Hy sê die bevinding…
21 April 2016 | Geneva – During World Immunization Week 2016, held 24-30 April, the World Health Organization (WHO) highlights recent gains in immunization coverage, and outlines further steps countries can take to “Close the Immunization Gap” and meet global vaccination targets by 2020. “Last…
The European Region is the first in the entire world to have achieved interruption of indigenous malaria transmission. The number of indigenous malaria cases dropped from 90 712 to 0 cases in 2015. Ahead of World Malaria Day 2016, the WHO announced that the European…
As Angola grapples with its worst yellow fever outbreak in decades, the Ministry of Health, with the support of the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners have extended the vaccination campaign beyond the capital Luanda into Huambo and Benguela – 2 of the other 5…