Energy Capital & Power (ECP) (EnergyCapitalPower.com) is pleased to announce that Woodside Energy Senegal Country Manager Andy Demetriou will participate at the MSGBC Oil, Gas, & Power 2021 (https://bit.ly/32JCYY9) Conference and Exhibition taking place in Dakar, Senegal from 16-17 December. Australia’s Woodside Energy is playing a major role in developing the offshore block of the […]
Fighting against drought-induced hunger: FAO provides rural households in Somalia with cash livestock and agricultural support
Download logo Sureedo lives on her farm in Qoordumey village, Dolow, Somalia. She grows fruits and vegetables with her family and was among the 2 500 rural farming households affected by the drought and desert locust swarms that have decimated crops and destroyed livelihoods. The ongoing drought, the invasion of the desert locust, and the global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) […]
Compact: African Development Bank and IFC Partner to Advance Economic Development in Lusophone African countries
Download logo The African Development Bank (AfDB.org) and IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, on Wednesday signed a partnership agreement admitting IFC as the first institutional partner to the Development Finance Compact for Portuguese-Speaking Countries of Africa, or the Lusophone Compact. The agreement was signed by African Development Bank Vice President for Corporate […]
UBA Group Dominates the 2021 Banker Awards, Wins 'African Bank of the Year'
Africa’s global bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA)( (www.UBAgroup.com) Plc yet again, reaffirms its leadership position across Africa, as the bank has been globally recognised as the African Bank of the year 2021 by the Banker Magazine, a leading global finance news publication published by the Financial Times of London. UBA’s solid financial performance, its […]
World AIDS Day 2021 commemorated at Dr Yves Cantin Community Hospital
Download logo World AIDS Day 2021 was commemorated in Mauritius with testing and counselling, through a mobile caravan that would travel around the country, to encourage more people to come forward to be tested, and by a series of activities, which kicked off, this morning, at Dr Yves Cantin Community Hospital in Black River. The Minister of […]
How seamless payment experiences make retail brands more valuable and relevant (By Gilbert Lungu)
By Gilbert Lungu, Country Manager for Zambia at Cellulant (https://Cellulant.io/) As established brands in the retail sector aggressively compete to acquire, cultivate, and defend their share of the Zambian consumer’s spend, those that connect, engage, and transact in the most unified and frictionless ways will be best positioned to grow wallet and market share. The […]
Kenya Has Made Tremendous Progress In Containing HIV, President Kenyatta Says
Download logo President Uhuru Kenyatta has said Kenya had made tremendous progress in slowing down the spread of HIV/AIDS in recent years noting that new infections had declined by 68.4% between 2013 and this year. Within the same period, the President said deaths attributed to HIV/AIDS had dipped by 67% from 58,446 people in 2013 […]
Western Cape Government on Omicron variant
Download logo The Western Cape Government remains prepared to respond to a fourth wave and is closely monitoring its health data to ensure that we have the resources needed to respond to pressures on our platform that may arise. We also continue to engage with the international community to remove the travel bans placed on […]
World AIDS Day 2021
Download logo On the occasion of World AIDS Day 2021, the U.S. Mission Nigeria recognizes and honors those we have lost to HIV/AIDS and the resiliency of those who fight for epidemic control in Nigeria. The United States is committed to leading the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, becoming an arsenal of vaccines for […]
Uganda Economy to Rebound but Could Take Longer to Become a Lower-Middle-Income Country
Download logo Uganda’s growth is expected to be between 3.5% and 4.0% in Fiscal Year (FY) 22 and about 5.5% in FY23; both projections are about one percentage lower than the June 2021 forecast, according to the latest edition of the Uganda Economic Update (UEU). The economic recovery in FY21 tapered off in early FY22 […]