Public Health Principal Secretary Mary Muthoni made the appeal during a stakeholders’ breakfast meeting, urging partners to make concrete commitments, improve transparency in reporting and strengthen coordination to prevent further transmission.

Kenya will field the second-largest delegation after hosts Senegal, who will have 139 athletes.

The organisation said it had been supporting Ebola preparedness in Kenya since the beginning of the regional outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda.

About 40 per cent of respondents said they had reduced spending on food, while half had used savings or emergency funds to meet housing costs.

Principal Secretary for Sports Elijah Mwangi made the commitment on Thursday when he hosted World Athletics Head of Competition Management Pierce O’Callaghan.

Donadio said the initiative also works with communities to ensure children have the basic support required to remain in school.

Stakeholders warned that deforestation, pollution, uncontrolled water abstraction and climate change are putting increasing pressure on the shared ecosystem.

The resolution, sponsored by Togo on behalf of the African Union, was backed by 164 countries. The United States voted against it, while six countries abstained.

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