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Kaur Senior Secondary School Celebrates Academic Excellence at Annual Speech and Prize-Giving Day
The Voice Gambia
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July 8, 2025
By: Yunus S. Saliu The management and staff of Kaur Senior Secondary School in the Lower Saloum District, Central River Region, held their annual Speech and Prize Award Ceremony on Saturday, 5th July 2025, at the school hall, marking another...
Goldstar Air’s 24-hour Cargo services to drive Ghana’s trade...
Modern Ghana
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Unique private international airline Goldstar Air, Ghanaian and United States-registered company with an issued Air Carrier Licence (ACL/N-SCH No 0239) from the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) to operate passenger and cargo flights across...
Nigeria Champions Parliamentary Diplomacy as NILDS Trains Malawian Lawmakers in Abuja
This Day
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July 9, 2025
Sunday Aborisade in Abuja In a significant diplomatic and legislative milestone, Nigeria and Malawi have taken a major step toward deepening bilateral relations and strengthening democratic institutions across Africa. This comes as the National...
Prevalence, Etiological Patterns and Factors Associated with Bacteraemia Among Febrile Children with Sickle Cell Anaemia in Jinja Regional Referral Hospital, Uganda
Dove Medical Press
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July 7, 2025
Introduction Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited blood disorder caused by a mutation in the β-globin gene, a single base substitution changes from GAG to GTG, leading to the replacement of glutamic acid with valine at the sixth position of...
Novartis Drug Becomes First Malaria Therapy for Newborns and Infants
MedCity News
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July 8, 2025
Newborns have been underserved when it comes to medical products for malaria. The drugs and vaccines available to adults and older children are not approved for babies — those doses are too strong to be used safely in such young bodies. A...
The Gazette Isn’t Law, So Why Do We Fear It?
The Fatu Network
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June 22, 2025
- Advertisement - Demystifying the Government Gazette and reclaiming land rights in The Gambia By Dave Manneh – Research Lead - Advertisement - Securing Futures: Land Rights Action Collaborative When I spoke with a few people from Sukuta recently,...
Novartis Receives Approval For First Malaria Medicine For Newborn Babies And Young Infants
MENAFN
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July 8, 2025
(MENAFN- GlobeNewsWire - Nasdaq) Coartem® (artemether-lumefantrine) Baby becomes first malaria treatment approved for newborn babies and young infants Rapid approvals in eight African countries now expected under a special global health scheme run...
First malaria treatment approved for newborns, young infants
CIDRAP
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July 8, 2025
Novartis today announced that it has received approval for the world's first malaria treatment for newborns and young babies, paving the way for the drug to be used soon in eight African countries that participated in clinical trials. The drug,...
First malaria drug for newborns and young infants cleared
pharmaphorum
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July 8, 2025
A new formulation of Novartis' antimalarial Coartem has become the first medicine to be approved for use in very young children who contract the potentially deadly mosquito-borne disease. Coartem Baby (artemether-lumefantrine), known as Riamet...
Aviation stakeholders push for harmonised safety standards in BAG States
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 2, 2025
The Banjul Accord Group Aviation Safety and Security Oversight Organisation Safety (BAGASOO) Conference kicked off yesterday in Abuja with a call to harmonise safety regulations among member countries in the Banjul Accord Group. The member...
Novartis' malaria drug for babies wins world-first approval
Fierce Pharma
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July 8, 2025
Novartis and a Swiss nonprofit have made history, scoring the world’s first approval for a medicine to treat babies who are infected with malaria. Switzerland’s health regulator has signed off on Coartem Baby for infants who weigh between 2 and 5...
Goldstar Air’s 24-hour Cargo Services To Drive Ghana’s Trade Globally
News Ghana
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July 7, 2025
Unique private international airline Goldstar Air, Ghanaian and United States-registered company with an issued Air Carrier Licence (ACL/N-SCH No 0239) from the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) to operate passenger and cargo flights across...
High Commissioner FJC urges youth to revolutionise African tourism
The Point
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Representing the “Smiling Coast of Africa,” Jahumpa-Ceesay conveyed warm greetings from the government and people of The Gambia and commended organisers including Africa Tourism Partners, UN Tourism, AfCFTA, South African Tourism, and the Joburg...
Connect, protect and coexist: key terms at the Africa-Spain Summit 2025
Atalayar
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July 8, 2025
Madrid hosted the Africa-Spain Summit 2025 between 6 and 8 July. The summit was organised by One Africa Forums to further strengthen collaboration at all levels between Africa and Spain. One Africa Forums is an organisation that creates economic...
Nigeria blue economy policy: The $1.5t plus GDP opportunity, by Soji Adeleye
Eagle Online
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July 5, 2025
Advocacy for the green economy was seen as discriminatory and condescending – the rich countries telling the poor South how to manage their affairs for the benefit of human kind. It was considered a call for sacrifice by the poor countries to...
Ambassador Bah meets U.S. Secretary of State Rubio
The Point
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Secretary of State Rubio welcomed Ambassador Bah to the Department of State and thanked him for honouring his invitation to join him for the evening reception and viewing of the National Fireworks in celebration of the U.S. independence day of...
Nigeria Blue Economy Policy: The 1.5 trillion Plus GDP opportunity
TechEconomy
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July 5, 2025
Advertisements Advocacy for the green economy was seen as discriminatory and condescending, the rich countries telling the poor South how to manage their affairs for the benefit of humankind. It was considered a call for sacrifice by the poor...
Global Climate Risk Index Ranks 188 Countries by Vulnerability and Access to Finance
State of the Planet
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June 25, 2025
The Climate Finance Vulnerability Index ranks 188 countries according to both their vulnerability to hazards and their financial resilience. Researchers at the Columbia Climate School, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, have unveiled a...
FOPE president asks MSMEs to implement revised Schedule M as govt unlikely to extend deadline
Pharmabiz.com
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The president of the Federation of Pharmaceutical Entrepreneurs (FOPE), Harish K. Jain, has urged the pharma MSMEs in Tamil Nadu to gear up for implementing the revised Schedule M of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act at their production facilities, as...
Nigeria, 6 others begin $1% passenger safety deductions Jan. 2026
Daily Trust
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The Banjul Accord Group Aviation Safety and Security Oversight Organisation (BAGASOO) says it will introduce a $1 passenger safety levy as part of key reforms to enhance aviation safety among member states. The organisation revealed that the...