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Previous and ongoing rains in Western Africa are creating favorable habitat conditions for the Rift Valley fever (RVF) vector amplification, resulting in persistent suitable hotspots for the RVF occurrence in the Sahel belt across Niger, Mali, Senegal, Mauritania, Chad, Burkina Faso, Gambia, and northern Nigeria. For these reasons, FAO is advising countries to raise awareness […]
Le 14 décembre 2024, le Premier ministre, ministre de l’Administration territoriale et de la Décentralisation, le Général de Division Abdoulaye Maïga, a lancé officiellement la Campagne Nationale de Vaccination du Cheptel 2024-2025 à Konobougou, dans la région de Ségou. Ce lancement a marqué une étape cruciale pour le secteur de l’élevage au Mali, qui se […]
At this year’s World Food Forum (WFF), peste des petits ruminants (PPR), a highly contagious viral disease affecting domestic small ruminants, including wildlife, and pervasive in nearly 70 countries across Africa, the Near East and Asia, was flagged high. The disease highly impacts food security, income, and livelihood of around 300 million rural families worldwide, […]
The African Union’s Agriculture and Food Security Division (AFSD), in collaboration with the Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR) and the African Union Inter-African Phytosanitary Council (AU-IAPSC), convened the Consultative Meeting on the Development and Promotion of Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) and Information-Sharing Platforms on Food Safety, Plant, and Animal Health. Held from November 25 […]
Africa has developed a preferred list to guide efforts in improving access to diagnostics for epidemic-prone diseases on the continent. Mpox, dengue, cholera, bacterial meningitis, and measles are the first set of priority diseases for which priority diagnostics have been shortlisted based on the set criteria outlined in the Target Product Profiles (TPPs). “Specific tests for these diseases will undergo evaluation as part […]
