The Bank has doubled its total climate change commitment to $25 billion between 2020 and 2025 ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, November 29, 2019/ — The Bank is playing a leading role in guiding progress on climate change on the continent. The Bank has doubled its total climate change commitment to $25 billion between 2020 and 2025. […]
Iron, a key nutrient to develop children’s brains and help adults live productive lives, is acutely lacking in people’s diets ACCRA, Ghana, October 15, 2019/ — By Rémy Ejel, Market Head for Nestlé CWAR Ltd. Document link: http://bit.ly/2OWpbEC There is an African proverb that says: “Your food is supposed to be your medicine and your medicine […]
Mr Mensah specifically commended Khaled Babbou, President of Rugby Africa, for the inclusion of top African teams from the four Africa regions ACCRA, Ghana, October 15, 2019/ — The management of the Rugby Africa has earned praises from Herbert Mensah, President of Ghana Rugby (https://GhanaRugby.org), for staging the 2019 Rugby Africa Women’s Sevens tournament in Tunisia […]
Feedback from the Facebook community is one of many signals Facebook uses to raise potentially false stories to fact-checkers for review JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, October 8, 2019/ — Facebook (https://www.Facebook.com/) today announced the expansion of its third-party fact-checking program to 10 African countries including: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Cameroon and Senegal. In partnership with Agence France-Presse (AFP) […]
The initiative seeks to strengthen Murdoch’s links with Africa across research and innovation expertise, strategic interest and networking capabilities PERTH, Australia, September 23, 2019/ — Kojo Annan has used his keynote speech at the 9th Annual Africa-Australia Research Forum in Perth, Western Australia, to urge the worldwide African community to strengthen the continent’s youth. Annan, […]
West African leaders have pledged $1bn (£805m) over five years, starting in 2020, to combat Islamist militancy in the region, but some are sceptical it will lead to improved security. “The enlargement of the circle of countries concerned by the Sahelian crisis is certainly welcomed yet the solutions proposed are exactly the same as those […]
Employment is top of the agenda of every African leader – SVP Charles Boamah ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, September 13, 2019/ — Innovative thinking about Africa’s conventional employment issues is what marks the African Development Bank’s (www.AfDB.org) new policy research document “Creating Decent Jobs: Strategies, Policies, and Instruments,” participants heard at the report launch, held 12 […]
The results of the 2019 Erasmus+ call bring the total number of exchanges between Africa and Europe to 26,247 since the beginning of the programme in 2014 BRUSSELS, Belgium, September 12, 2019/ — The EU has invested an additional €17.6 million to support over 8,500 newly selected African students and staff to participate in Erasmus+ […]
Growth of online retail driving DHL Africa eShop’s rapid success CAPE TOWN, South Africa, September 11, 2019/ — Platform introduced to an additional 14 countries across Sub Saharan Africa; Growth of online retail driving DHL Africa eShop’s rapid success. Download document link: http://bit.ly/2mcc7Pp Since its initial introduction in April of this year, the DHL Africa eShop (https://www.Africa-eShop.DHL/) app […]
Platform important tool for learning lessons from each other and to help move Africa to a more dynamic agriculture ACCRA, Ghana, September 6, 2019/ — The African Development Bank (AfDB.org), the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have relaunched a platform to assist African agriculture ministers and other key stakeholders to promote […]