GE (NYSE: GE) (www.GE.com), the world’s premiere Digital Industrial Company has announced the graduation of the third batch of 28 young Nigerian entrepreneurs from its Lagos Garage – a hub for advanced manufacturing-based innovation, strategy development, idea generation and collaboration. The new graduates who joined the programme in the first week of June, following a […]

British troops are supporting the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and Sir Michael Fallon has confirmed that the Bentiu-based medical facility is fully operational, and will support over 1,800 UN peacekeepers and UN staff. This will enable military and civilian staff to carry out the work of the UNMISS mission by providing vital infrastructure […]

Women of African descent have made important contributions to the ecumenical movement and to their societies' sustainable development. However, their stories often remain untold and their potential unfilled. A seminar organized by the Pan African Women’s Ecumenical Empowerment Network (PAWEEN), a project of the Ecumenical Theological Education department of the World Council of Churches (WCC), […]

The Department of Political Affairs (DPA) of the African Union Commission in collaboration with the National Independent Electoral Commission (NIEC) of Somalia has concluded a three-day BRIDGE (Building Resources in Democracy, Governance and Elections) training workshop on Electoral Systems. The BRIDGE workshop took place from 3-5 July 2017 in Nairobi, Kenya. It consisted of twenty […]

The Delivery Unit, under the Office of the Prime Minister of Guinea (DU), the Ministry of Agriculture and main actors in the sector have set a target of 100 tons of fresh pineapple exports targeting international markets (non-regional), by the end of January 2018. In order to achieve this objective and to remove key bottlenecks […]

Children account for over half of the 12 million West and Central African people on the move each year, with some 75 per cent of them remaining in sub-Saharan Africa, and less than one in five heading to Europe – UNICEF announced today as part of a new report. In Search of Opportunities: Voices of […]

“Africa has acquired a position of absolute relevance in Italy’s foreign policy. I met all the African ambassadors on 25 May when I joined them in celebrating their Africa Day and I am very happy to find them broadly represented here today, together with the top executives of the Italian Geographical Society (SGI),” said the […]

In partnership with SONY Pictures South Africa and e.tv, the U.S. Mission in South Africa recognized young South Africans making a difference in their communities on July 3 with an exclusive premier of the movie Spider-Man: Homecoming.  Through a campaign on e.tv, Sony Pictures asked young South Africans making a difference in their communities to […]

On June 30, 2017, Assistant Foreign Minister Qian Hongshan attended at invitation the National Day reception marking the 57th anniversary of the Independence of the Democratic Republic of the Congo held by the Congolese (Dem) Embassy in China, and exchanged views with Congolese (Dem) Ambassador to China Jean Charles Okoto Lolakombe on relations between China […]

Sir Simon McDonald, Permanent Under Secretary and Head of Her Majesty’s British Diplomatic Service is on a visit to Dar es Salaam helping to cement the close relationship between Tanzania and the UK, Tanzania’s number one foreign direct investor. During his 2 day visit, the top diplomat will meet Tanzania’s Foreign Minister Dr Augustine Mahiga […]