Immediate actions needed to reduce impact of disasters.

Today in Beijing, President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping made history by jointly announcing the United States’ and China’s respective targets for reducing the greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change in the post-2020 period.

This announcement is a unique development in the U.S.-China relationship. The world’s two largest economies, energy consumers, and carbon emitters are reaching across traditional divides and working together to demonstrate leadership on an issue that...

The Ecobank Foundation, along with two of its partners, the West African College of Physicians and the Royal College of Physicians (London) today launched the second year of a strategic partnership to reduce the impact of HIV, tuberculosis and malaria.

The Millennium Development Goal 6 Partnership for African Clinical Training, also known by the acronym ‘M-PACT,’ is a three-year project sponsored by the Ecobank Foundation, and managed by the West African College of Physicians together with...

With only three weeks in office Dr Magufuli’s work is capturing headlines in major newspapers from East Africa to as far as Australia. This is in addition to hilarious twitter hashtag (#WhatWouldMagufuliDo) which has taken the social media by a storm.

It is Tanzania’s 54th independence anniversary today. But unlike in the last 53 years ago there is no pomp and colour to mark the day.

Jeh C. Johnson, the Homeland Security secretary, on Feb. 2. Mr. Johnson vowed to appeal the court ruling, which said that the president had not followed proper legal procedures in instituting his program.CreditJabin Botsford/The New York TimesWASHINGTON — Just one day before undocumented immigrants were set to begin applying for work permits and legal protections, the administration announced on Tuesday that it would delay carrying out President Obama’s executive actions on immigration,...

Today is the International Day for Disaster Reduction, a date set aside by the United Nations to celebrate how people and communities are reducing their exposure to disasters and raising awareness on them.

Rain tends to do immense damage to Tanzania’s infrastructure. It causes death to people as well, while destroying property.

A mobile text message has lately been doing the rounds, advising people to take precautions against cooking gas-induced disasters. It should not be ignored, like we do with regard to information cooked up for fun, political motives or settling scores relayed via that media.

Climate-related disasters in the five years since global leaders last met to discuss climate change have cost almost $500 billion - three times more than for the whole of the 1970s, international agency Oxfam said Friday.