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Through a special humanitarian campaign known as ‘Touching Lives!’ the artificial limbs were donated to the needy in addition to 600 wheelchairs.

Elephant numbers in the country are growing rapidly, thanks to collaborative efforts between the government, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the tourism industry, other partners and local communities.

Mozambique has received about 800,000 malaria vaccine doses to vaccinate around 300,000 children through the country’s Expanded Program on Immunization.

There is a serious and growing outbreak of the illness in the Democratic Republic of Congo, that has now expanded outside the country to as far as Burundi and recently Kenya.

“The target is to distribute sanitary pads to more than 10,000 Tanzanian Girls,” revealed Arjun Kaur Mittal, who champions the special health campaign for female students.

A Kenyan female banker was abducted, taken into wilderness and had some of her body organs chopped off before being murdered

Ethiopia is still relying heavily on the Lamu Port of Kenya to ferry the country's import and export cargo consignment through the Indian Ocean. That was discussed during the second Joint Technical Committee meeting of the Lamu Port-South…

The Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights, has visited ten African countries in the last three years, including, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Kenya, Ethiopia and The Gambia.

Countries demonstrating serious and sustained efforts to prevent and prosecute wildlife trafficking may be removed from the Countries of Concern list in the next report, barring other factors.

The Kikuletwa facility is part of the World Bank Funded East Africa Skills for Transformation and Regional Integration Project (EASTRIP) undertaken in Kenya, Ethiopia and Tanzania.