Africa: Russia-Ukraine Crisis Highlights Continent's Need to Diversify Its Wheat Sources

[The Conversation Africa] The war between Russia and Ukraine has highlighted just how much of the world's wheat supply relies on these two countries. For instance, a recently released UN report shows a sample of 25 African countries that rely on wheat imports from Russia or Ukraine. Of this group, 21 import most of their wheat from Russia. Source

Nigeria: Transmission Towers' Collapse Throws Abeokuta, Others Into Darkness

[Premium Times] "All 33KV feeders from these two sub-stations will be out until the towers are reconstructed." Source

Nigeria: Insecurity - Bandits Now Collaborating With Dislodged Boko Haram Terrorists - Lai Mohammed

[Premium Times] "What is happening now is that there is a kind of an unholy handshake between bandits and Boko Haram insurgents." Source

Nigeria: The True Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance - New Study Has Major Implications for Nigeria

[Nigeria Health Watch] Editor's Note: This week's Thought Leadership piece is a commentary on the Global Research on AntiMicrobial resistance (GRAM) Project written by Dr Abiodun Egwuenu, a Field Epidemiologist and Antimicrobial Resistance Programme Manager with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). It is the first comprehensive global estimate of the burden of AMR, ever undertaken and she writes about the implications of the study results for Nigeria and steps that should be taken to mitigate the threat of AMR to human Source

Nigeria: Train Attack - What Nigerian Govt Is Doing to Free Kidnapped Passengers - Minister

[Premium Times] "The various arms of security are working night and day to unravel the mystery surrounding the attack as a whole and the kidnapped people." Source

Southern Africa: Southern Africa Must Embrace Informality in Its Towns and Cities

[ISS] Informal settlements are growing fast in the region, and governments should aim for sustainable 'less-regulated' urbanisation. Source

Nigeria: #RevolutionNow Protest - Appeal Court Lifts Movement Restriction Imposed On Sowore

[Premium Times] The Federal High Court in Abuja had, in 2019, restricted Mr Sowore's movement to Abuja as part of the bail conditions granted him in the treasonable felony trial instituted against him for calling for #RevolutionNow protest against the Buhari administration. Source

Nigeria: Insecurity - 2,968 Killed, 1,484 Abducted in Three Months - Niger, Zamfara, Kaduna Most Violent States

[Premium Times] Based on percentage, the northern part of the country recorded 2,575 (86.8%) while the southern part of the country recorded 393 deaths averaging (13.2%) Source

Nigeria: How Climate Change Crisis Is Worsening Nigeria's Disease Burden

[Leadership] As Nigeria faces worsening non-communicable diseases burden resulting from environmental crisis, stakeholders have stressed the need for climate friendly policies. Source

Nigeria: Eight Years After Chibok More Than 1,500 Children Abducted By Armed Groups

[AI London] Eight years after the abduction of 276 Chibok school girls by Boko Haram, more than 1,500 Nigerian school children have been abducted by armed groups and the Nigerian authorities are failing to protect them, Amnesty International said in a new investigation published today (14 April). Source

Africa: Global Health Decision-Makers Must Mirror Humanity's Diversity

[allAfrica] New research reveals the gulf between the aims of organisations shaping health outcomes around the world and their governance structures and practices Source

Forces are 'disrupting' insurgency in Mozambique - but fight is not over, says SANDF chief

South Africa's military chief said Wednesday that multinational forces had been able to "disrupt" jihadist rebels in northern Mozambique since their deployment there last year. Source