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Mauritanian PFU Expresses Support for the Saharawi People Following the Recent Floods

Mauritanian PFU Expresses Support for the Saharawi People Following the Recent Floods

In a letter to President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, secretary general of the Mauritanian political party Union of Progressive Forces (UFP), Mohamed Ould Mouloud voiced Tuesday his party’s support to the Saharawi people following the recent floods. “We express our support and solidarity with the Sahrawi people who face this disaster with enormous efforts, […]

Africa Finance Corporation Completes Corporate Restructuring With The Appointment Of Sanjeev Gupta

Africa Finance Corporation Completes Corporate Restructuring With The Appointment Of Sanjeev Gupta

In January, 2015 AFC implemented a new organisational structure. The purpose of this re-organisation was to increase the Corporation’s client responsiveness by creating sector clusters, that would each be responsible for delivering all of AFC’s products to clients within those sectors, simplifying the Corporation’s structure and increasing responsiveness. In achieving these objectives, a number of […]

Saving Mothers And Babies Advances Africa – Melinda Gates

Saving Mothers And Babies Advances Africa – Melinda Gates

Sometimes the technical words we use to describe a problem mask its true nature.Such is the case for the hundreds of thousands of women who die during pregnancy or delivery each year across Africa. For them, the official cause of death may be recorded as postpartum hemorrhage or uterine rupture. Similarly, for the alarming number […]

Voxafrica To Launch The First Season Of The Voice In West And Central Africa

Voxafrica To Launch The First Season Of The Voice In West And Central Africa

No production of this magnitude has ever reached this part of Africa yet. Now Voxafrica, the Pan-African television station will launch the first season of The Voice in West and Central Africa. The Voice is currently the world’s biggest music show format. Produced and aired in over 180 countries, the show will run for 17 […]

Nigeria To Allow Rice Importation: National Rice Millers Association of Nigeria Not Happy

Nigeria To Allow Rice Importation: National Rice Millers Association of Nigeria Not Happy

The National Rice Millers Association of Nigeria, NRMAN, said on Thursday in Abuja that the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, erred in its decision to lift the ban on importation of rice through the land borders. The Chairman of the association, Mohammed Abubakar, said the NCS overreached its statutory mandate as an enforcement agency in taking […]

African Civil Society Under Threat: Mary Robinson

African Civil Society Under Threat:  Mary Robinson

The decline of human rights on average across Africa is worrying Mary Robinson, the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and now a special envoy on climate change for the UN Secretary-General. Discussing this year’s Ibrahim Index of African Governance, she also underlined the need for more data on climate change. She spoke […]

Orange Digital Ventures Invests In Afrostream

Orange Digital Ventures Invests In Afrostream

Orange Digital Ventures announces its participation in the funding of Afrostream, a subscription video on demand service (SVOD) of African, African-American and African-Caribbean films and television series, alongside TheFamily, Cross Culture Ventures I L.P. and ACE & Company. Through its corporate fund, Orange will enable Afrostream to accelerate the development of its original and innovative […]

Africa Is A Rich Continent With Poor People – Dlamini Zuma

Africa Is A Rich Continent With Poor People – Dlamini Zuma

AFRICA is a contradictory place being a rich continent with poor people, African Union Commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. She also said development will be very slow in Africa if women are left out. During a cockatil held for her at Melia Habana Hotel on Friday evening, Dlamini-Zuma said only skills and education could be an […]

The Value Of Dual Citizenship For African’s Wishing To Take Advantage Of Opportunities

The Value Of Dual Citizenship For African’s Wishing To Take Advantage Of Opportunities

The Value of Dual Citizenship for African’s Wishing to Take Advantage of Opportunities within the Continent and Abroad. It is estimated that only around 1% of the world’s population have two or more passports, making dual citizenship an exclusive privilege. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 5 October 2015/ “No man is an island” is the theme of […]

Africa’s Governance Winners, Losers And Surprises

Africa’s Governance Winners, Losers And Surprises

Zimbabwe is one of the African countries where governance has improved most in the four years up to 2014. Senegal just might surge ahead of its African counterparts in the future, to become one of the continent’s powerhouses. Developments in Somalia, long the worst-governed country in Africa, can be described as “a good news story”. […]

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