Libya Energy Summit to Take Place in November, Organizer Holds Key Meeting With Prime Minister's Office

Upcoming Libya Energy & Economic Summit is endorsed by the Office of the Prime Minister and includes government and private sector leaders; Libya’s oil and gas industry is once again growing, with the government encouraging investment across the energy spectrum; The organizer Energy Capital & Power (www.EnergyCapitalPower.com) held a meeting with the Prime Minister’s Chief […]

New test finds no evidence of Ebola virus in Cote d'Ivoire case

Download logo The government of Cote d’Ivoire has informed the World Health Organization (WHO) that a second laboratory has tested samples from a patient suspected of having Ebola and has found no evidence of the virus. The tests by the Institut Pasteur in Lyon, France follow tests conducted by the Institut Pasteur of Cote d’Ivoire, […]

Canon, an Offical Provider of Expo 2020, Launches Special Series of Frontiers of Innovation Events

Download logo Canon (www.Canon.com), an Official Provider of Expo 2020 Dubai and the first company ever to be the single provider of imaging and printing for a World Expo, has launched a special series of its monthly online Frontiers of Innovation broadcasts to celebrate the partnership. Canon Middle East launched the Frontiers of Innovation series […]

Ghana To Reverse Land Degradation with World Bank Support

Download logo The World Bank approved $103.4 million for Ghana to reverse land degradation and strengthen integrated natural resource management in about 3 million hectares of degraded landscapes, working with communities of the Northern Savannah Zone and the cocoa forest landscape.  The cost of environmental degradation in Ghana due to unsustainable use of land for agriculture, […]

Coronavirus – Somalia: AMISOM extends COVID-19 vaccination to Mogadishu traders

Download logo Dozens of Somali shop owners, shop assistants and other business persons operating at the ‘Marine Market’ inside the Halane Base Camp in Mogadishu have started receiving COVID-19 vaccines, courtesy of Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) serving under the Africa Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). The traders received the first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca […]

FIFA has entrusted the African Union of Broadcasting with the Management of the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers Rights in 17 Sub-Saharan countries

As a prelude to the next FIFA World Cup that will take place in 2022, in Qatar, the African Union of Broadcasting (www.uar-AUB.org ) has been handed the Free-To-Air rights for the Qualifying matches in 17 Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, thus making AUB the exclusive Partner for the commercialization of the rights in the following […]

Coronavirus – Algeria: Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (T?KA) Supports Algeria in Its Fight Against COVID-19

Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TÄ°KA) delivered 50 Oxygen Concentrators to the Ministry of Health of Algeria to combat COVID-19 as the number of cases were increasing. Algeria, which combats the COVID-19 pandemic fiercely, faces difficulties in the treatment processes of ICU patients due to problems with oxygen supply. TÄ°KA implemented a project to support […]

Partnership to help reduce South Africa's beverage industry footprint

The National Cleaner Production Centre (NCPC-SA) has concluded a formal partnership with membership-based industry organization, the Beverage Association of South Africa (BevSA). The NCPC-SA will provide support and technical solutions to companies in the South African beverages sector, focusing on resource efficiency and cleaner production, as well as sustainable production and consumption approaches. The NCPC-SA's resources, strategy and […]

Coronavirus – Kenya: Covid-19 Vaccination Update (31 August 2021)

Vaccines Received: 3,610,600 Total Vaccinations: 2,773,239 Total First Doses: 1,968,656 Total Second Doses: 804,583 Second Dose Uptake: 40.9% Proportion of Adults Fully Vaccinated: 2.95% Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Ministry of Health, Kenya. Media filesDownload logo Source: Apo-Opa

Coronavirus – Kenya: COVID-19 Update (31 August 2021)

New cases: 565 Sample size: 4,494 Positivity Rate: 12.6% Recoveries: 1,208 Recorded Deaths: 6 Cumulative tests: 2,371,571 Total Confirmed cases: 235,863 Total Recoveries: 223,637 Cumulative Fatalities: 4,726 Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Ministry of Health, Kenya. Media filesDownload logo Source: Apo-Opa