Africa NewsACTA2021-02-10T10:23:39+00:00 Africa NewsA quitter fights tobacco use in EthiopiaJune 7, 2021 Read more...Ghana: Ban Shisha To Safeguard Health & Wellbeing – VALD To Gov’tJune 4, 2021 Read more...Ghana: Tobacco has NO benefits except to destroy “Commit to quit” Now!June 4, 2021 Read more...World No Tobacco Day: Activists task health workers on cessation therapy for smokersJune 3, 2021 Read more...We must provide tobacco users the help they need to quitJune 1, 2021 Read more...Tanzania: About 500 containers of ‘shisha’ still held at Dar portMay 14, 2021 Read more...Nigeria: Teenage ‘shisha’ video reinforces need to ban sale of tobacco near schoolsMay 6, 2021 Read more...Ghana: Chairman of MATCOH calls for probe into the suspension of Tobacco ContractMay 6, 2021 Read more...Growing pains: Zimbabwe’s female tobacco farmers struggle to competeApril 26, 2021 Read more...Malawi President Proposes Switch from Growing TobaccoApril 26, 2021 Read more...Tobacco Industry Exploiting Nigeria’s Weak Regulations to Glamourise Smoking in Entertainment IndustryApril 20, 2021 Read more...We can build a fairer, healthier Africa when we effectively tackle the maneuvers of the tobacco industry.April 13, 2021 Read more...South Africa: Illegal cigarette consignment to be destroyedApril 12, 2021 Read more...Zambia: CSOs ask Parley to table tobacco control billApril 12, 2021 Read more...Kenya: Health ministry asked to reject return of nicotine pouch Lyft to Kenyan marketApril 6, 2021 Read more...Kenya: BAT rejects Health ministry’s guide on nicotine pouchesMarch 29, 2021 Read more...South Africa: Tobacco companies ‘show true colours’ in illicit trade spatMarch 29, 2021 Read more...RBZ (Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe) throws tobacco farmers into vicious debt trapMarch 29, 2021 Read more...Big Tobacco ploughing crooked furrow in African marketsMarch 24, 2021 Read more...Why Nigeria must prepare for e-cigarettes addictionMarch 19, 2021 Read more...CTCA launches first ever Africa tobacco control conferenceMarch 19, 2021 Read more...South Africa: Researchers reiterate need to regulate e-cigarettesMarch 11, 2021 Read more...Push for new e-cigarette and smoking laws in South AfricaMarch 8, 2021 Read more...Ghana: 54.1% of boys in JHS/SHS use drugs, 34.3% of girls smoke shisha – SurveyFebruary 26, 2021 Read more...BAT’s PR agency tried to bribe Bureau’s Kenyan reporterFebruary 26, 2021 Read more...Tobacco control regulation: Commission to confiscate cigarettes sold in sticksFebruary 26, 2021 Read more...Area under tobacco cultivation in Africa rose over 3% in 6 yrs: WHO reportFebruary 19, 2021 Read more...Nigeria: Experts seek enforcement of tobacco regulationsFebruary 18, 2021 Read more...Kenya: NGO Petitions Parliament To Review Age Of Tobacco Users To 21February 18, 2021 Read more...The Big Tobacco Allies – Report in ZambiaFebruary 16, 2021 Read more...Kenya: Lobby wants tobacco control laws enforced to curb rising burden of NCDsFebruary 15, 2021 Read more...Nigeria records nearly 30,000 tobacco smoking-related deaths- ResearchFebruary 11, 2021 Read more...Ghana: VALD warn against tobacco, alcohol consumption as it marks World Cancer DayFebruary 8, 2021 Read more...Nigeria spent 526.4b in treating tobacco ailmentsFebruary 3, 2021 Read more...Nigeria: Tobacco companies using intermediaries ‘to promote image’ – ReportFebruary 3, 2021 Read more...Coronavirus: Government should ban use of shisha in GhanaFebruary 3, 2021 Read more...THE BIG TOBACCO ALLIESJanuary 29, 2021 Read more...Nigeria: Again, Nigeria Gets It Wrong On Tobacco Control FundingJanuary 27, 2021 Read more...Egypt: Cigarette prices up EGP 0.25 to finance healthcare insurance programmeJanuary 21, 2021 Read more...TCRA research: Burkinabé researcher looks at why local school children are using tobaccoJanuary 21, 2021 Read more...Uganda: 800 tobacco farmers demand Shs9b arrearsJanuary 20, 2021 Read more...Tobacco industry ‘front’ rejected by WHO, others, finds footing in NigeriaJanuary 14, 2021 Read more...Botswana’s rising tobacco users’ figure ‘frightening,’ group saysJanuary 14, 2021 Read more...TCRA research: Ugandan researcher wants to find the latest statistics on young people and tobacco use in the countryJanuary 14, 2021 Read more...Dlamini-Zuma on why lockdown ban on tobacco sales was rationalJanuary 14, 2021 Read more...Smuggling affecting cigarette prices says reportDecember 16, 2020 Read more...Court strikes out BATN’s suit against FCCPCDecember 16, 2020 Read more...Cigarette market normalised, but not the same as before ban – studyDecember 12, 2020 Read more...More Taxes On Tobacco Products In 2021December 11, 2020 Read more...Nigeria: Committee to discourage youths from smoking with National Tobacco Control ActDecember 10, 2020 Read more...South Africa: Children must be protected from the glamourised promotion of e-cigarettesDecember 10, 2020 Read more...Turbulence surrounding tobacco control in GhanaDecember 10, 2020 Read more...Global Tobacco Index Country Ranking: Ghana Can Perform BetterDecember 10, 2020 Read more...Kenya: Don’t grant cigarette makers tax holidayDecember 10, 2020 Read more...
