International Organizations

[Nation] The African Union Commission has defended the continental body's decision to grant Israel member status, saying it was at the "express demand of many member states". (AllAfrica)

[263Chat] Zimbabwe's Auditor General's office has been rated by the World Bank among several national audit offices with a substantial degree of independence in carrying out its mandate without undue interference. (AllAfrica)

[Daily News] TANZANIA is attending a meeting of African countries that is expected to come up with a joint method of convincing the World Bank and International Monetary Funds (IMF) to support the continent on constructing digital infrastructures in a bid to mitigate the economic effects brought by the Covoid-19 pandemic. (AllAfrica)

[UN News] An "alarming" 80 per cent increase in sexual violence in Somalia, as documented in two recent reports by the Secretary-General, has been described as "appalling" by two UN Special Representatives. (AllAfrica)

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- USAID administrator Samantha Power finalized a day-long trip to Ethiopia without an audience with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. She however used her short visit to reiterate her earlier calls for dialogue and cessation of hostilities to end the nine months conflict in Tigray, the start of which on November 04 last year she commemorated as "a grim day". (AllAfrica)

[Nation] The head of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Samantha Power, has called on all parties to the conflict in Tigray to immediately ceasefire and begin dialogue. (AllAfrica)

[Nation] The World Bank has appointed Rosemary Mukami Kariuki Country Manager for Uganda. (AllAfrica)

[WHO] Brazzaville -- Weekly COVID-19 deaths in Africa reached a record peak in the week that ended on 1 August, marking the highest seven-day toll since the onset of the pandemic in the continent, new data from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows. (AllAfrica)

[UN News] The new UN Emergency Relief Coordinator ended a six-day mission to Ethiopia with a fresh push to get badly needed food and other supplies into the embattled Tigray region. (AllAfrica)

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Nairobi -- If passed, this legislation will drive LGBT+ people further away from HIV prevention, care and treatment services and endanger the advances made against the HIV epidemic in the last decade, says UNAIDS. (AllAfrica)

[Nation] The Ethiopian government has suspended the activities of three foreign humanitarian organisations which have been working in the restive northern Tigray region. (AllAfrica)

[OHCHR] A UN report published today details the dire and worsening human rights situation over the past year in the Central African Republic (CAR), where armed groups carried out a violent bid to disrupt elections. In response, the country's defence and security forces launched military operations to retake territory from them. (AllAfrica)

[FAO] Rome -- Cereals, vegetable oils and dairy drive FAO Food Price Index lower for second month in a row (AllAfrica)

[This Day] Owerri -- The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has stressed the need to promote breastfeeding in the country in order to guarantee survival and growth of children. (AllAfrica)

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- In a statement published on Ethiopia Fact Check today, the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia's Agency for Civil Society announced the temporary suspension of MSF Holland, the Norwegian Refugee Council and Al-Maktoume humanitarian operations in Ethiopia. (AllAfrica)

[Monusco] Beni courthouse located in the city center, not far from the town hall, is built near a market and was not fenced. This position has often been the direct cause of numerous incidents, the most frequent of which are jail breaks by detainees and defendants after the hearings. The latter have often taken advantage of the proximity of the market and the confusion it entails to escape. The national police, on the other hand, often find themselves unable to react in such an environment. (AllAfrica)

[This Day] Annually, World Breastfeeding Week is marked from August 1 to 7. This year, Ada Ezeogu, a nutrition specialist with the United Nations Children's Funds, while emphasising on the countless benefits of exclusive breastfeeding, harped on how it protects women from cancer, boosts intelligence quotient in babies, and saves the resources of the nation, among others. Rebecca Ejifoma writes (AllAfrica)

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Martin Griffiths, the newly appointed UN OCHA chief yesterday in a press briefing concluding his six day visit to Ethiopia, where he affirmed the solidarity of OCHA with the people of Ethiopia, discussed the status of humanitarian work in war torn Tigray and warned against the endangerment of the lives of humanitarian aid workers. (AllAfrica)

[VOA] Geneva -- The World Health Organization says more than 700 health care workers and patients were killed, more than 2,000 injured, and hundreds of health facilities destroyed in countries of conflict between 2018 and 2020. (AllAfrica)

[WHO] Good morning, good afternoon and good evening. (AllAfrica)

[WHO] Distinguished guests, dear colleagues and friends, (AllAfrica)

[VOA] Yaounde, Cameroon -- Withdrawing emergency health care services amid a crisis was a difficult decision, but it was one that Doctors Without Borders (MSF) had to make after the government suspended its operations for eight months. (AllAfrica)

[This Day] The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has said about 122 million Nigerians currently face the risk of being infected by one form of prevalent tropical disease or the other. The agency lamented that the country faced possible reversal of the fragile gain made in rescuing the populace from the health crisis if nothing was done to improve the funding of intervention programmes targeted at tackling the problem. (AllAfrica)

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- "The pressure to open a corridor through western Tigray is unacceptable," Mitiku Kassa, National Disaster Risk Management Commissioner told a local news outlet today. (AllAfrica)

[DW] Less than 9% of UNESCO World Heritage Sites are in Africa. Experts say the award is too Eurocentric. But in Africa, there's also a lack of structures and political will to preserve cultural and natural heritage. (AllAfrica)

[Premium Times] Siasia, a former Nigeria international, is seeking compensation for the 'damage' done to his reputation (AllAfrica)

[AIM] Maputo -- The Palestinian ambassador to Mozambique, Fayez Abdul Jawwad, has urged the Mozambican government to oppose the granting of observer status at the African Union to Israel. (AllAfrica)

[Monusco] MONUSCO (UNPOL) Police Officers' team specialized in gender-based sexual violence sensitized, on July 27, 55 students at Don Bosco Ngangi Institute located in Karisimbi commune, Goma. The objective of the awareness session was, among other things, to make the teenagers aware of the concept of gender, which is still poorly perceived in Congolese society. (AllAfrica)

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican government on Tuesday approved the policy and strategy for managing internally displaced people. (AllAfrica)

[African Union] Following an invitation from the Government of the Republic of Zambia, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat, has approved the deployment of an African Union (AU) Short-Term Election Observation (STO) Mission to the Republic of Zambia to observe the country's general elections scheduled to take place on 12 August 2021. (AllAfrica)

[ODI] A new report from global think-tank ODI sheds light on the need to strengthen sustainable climate services across Africa if ambitions for effective climate adaptation are to be realised. (AllAfrica)