The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Egypt, in close cooperation with the Ministry of Education, announced the launch of a two-week entrepreneurship education workshop for teachers of technical schools in Luxor. The workshop, which involved over 100 teachers, commenced with a one-day introduction on 29 November, ...
Conference on Health and Higher Education held at the Desalegn Hotel. The conference brought together 120 participants from Ethiopia, Norway and elsewhere. The main objective of the conference was to promote Ethiopian-Norwegian collaborations within health and higher education as well as creating a space for relevant actors to meet and share ex ...
The Chairperson of the Select Committee on Trade and International Relations, Mr Eddie Makue, has voiced satisfaction that all political parties in the Committee have welcomed the National Liquor Policy. Mr Makue said this is a positive step towards regulating responsible alcohol use in the country. ldquo;There was unanimity across all pol ...
A new project to strengthen the capacities of African policy makers and experts to effectively design, reformulate and implement strategies and policies for inclusive and sustainable cities, among other issues, will be launched in Uganda this week by the Economic Commission for Africa. A national workshop will be held in Kampala from Decemb ...
Johannesburg (AFP) - Ajax Cape Town stunned African champions Mamelodi Sundowns 2-0 on Wednesday to continue a South African Premiership revival under former Netherlands goalkeeper Stanley Menzo. Content to contain the CAF Champions League title-holders for much of the clash, Ajax scored twice within three minutes for a second successive win. ...
Rabat (AFP) - Morocco on Wednesday accused the African Union commission's chairperson, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma of South Africa, of blocking Rabat's efforts to rejoin the AU and lacking neutrality. The foreign ministry, in a strongly worded statement, charged that she was trying to thwart Morocco's decision to regain its natural and legitimate pl ...
Sikasso (Mali) (AFP) - Amadou Sanogo, a former army captain who staged a military coup in Mali in 2012, went on trial Wednesday charged with the murder of several soldiers whose bodies were found in a mass grave. I'm in fine spirits. I was waiting for this day, Sanogo told AFP at the opening of the trial, held in a packed concert hall in Sikas ...
Abidjan, Cote d rsquo;Ivoire, November 30, 2016 ndash; The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) and United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) on Wednesday November 30, 2016, signed a US$ 150 million loan agreement to finance infrastructure and SME projects, including women-owned enterprises in Nigeria. ldquo;The Fund will support development o ...
Understanding Africa rsquo;s development imperatives, especially structural transformation (which involves dynamically moving from low-value agrarian economic structures to productive agriculture, manufacturing and quality services), is as primordial for any attempt to review the continent rsquo;s governance posture, as it is for making develop ...
MCB Capital Markets (www.MCBcm.com), the investment banking arm of MCB Group (www.MCBgroup.com), the largest banking group in Mauritius, is acting as Transaction Advisor to SANNE Group plc ( ldquo;SANNE rdquo;) (www.SANNEgroupplc.com), on the US$127.3 million acquisition of International Financial Services and IFS Trustees (IFS), a leading Maur ...
Angolan President Jos eacute; Eduardo dos Santos should refuse to sign a new media law until parliament revises provisions restricting the right to freedom of expression, Human Rights Watch said today. The law grants the government and ruling party expansive power to interfere with the work of journalists, and potentially to prevent reporting o ...
South Africa and Azerbaijan have agreed to establish a Joint Commission for Cooperation (JCC) in a bid to elevate relations and facilitate greater volumes of trade. The agreement was announced by Minister Nkoana-Mashabane and her Azerbaijan counterpart, Mr Elmar Mmamadyarov, at the conclusion of their bilateral talks in Baku, the capital city o ...
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Linda Thomas-Greenfield will travel to France, Mali, and Ghana from November 30 to December 9. In Paris on November 30, the Assistant Secretary, along with Department of Defense colleagues, will attend a quarterly P3 Africa Meeting with France and the United Kingdom that will focus on the Sah ...
Denouncing reports of open intimidation from armed militia against citizens of Burundi, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has called upon the Government to take immediate effective action to protect its people. The 18-member expert Committee , which monitors worldwide implementation of the Inter ...
The Next Einstein Forum (NEF) ( http://NEF.org ) and the Government of Rwanda yesterday hosted the second NEF Ministerial Meeting to leverage research networks and funding mechanisms to drive Africa rsquo;s long term progress. Under the theme, ldquo;Collaborative Global Research Networks: Implementing Essential Actions rdquo;, the meeting revi ...
The trial of the leader of the 2012 coup in Mali , Gen. Amadou Haya Sanogo, and 17 co-defendants, including other members of the Malian army, is set to begin on November 30, 2016, in the southern Malian town of Sikasso. The defendants are accused of the 2012 abduction and killing of 21 elite ldquo; Red Berets , rdquo; who were detained and for ...
On November 18, 2016, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the 2016 Article IV consultation with Cabo Verde. In 2015, economic growth stagnated at 1.5 percent, slightly below the 1.9 percent registered in 2014. Tourism recovered and remittances remained robust, but FDI and public investment slowed. The u ...
The Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies has emphasised the importance of export diversification and industrialisation in Africa. He was speaking in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where he was moderating the Africa Trade Week Panel Discussion on Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA). The session ...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, 30 November 2016,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Juniper Glass today announced that it has received all regulatory approvals necessary to conclude the final investments in its US$70 million greenfield container glass factory in Debre Birhan, Ethiopia. Juniper is working closely with leading global glass engineers an ...
DUBAI, UAE, 30 November 2016,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/-Mundipharma, an international pharmaceutical leader in pain management, hosted its third Cancer Care Summit in Morocco on the 21st and 22nd of October, to share major developments in the understanding and the management of cancer patients 39; care, and highlight the need to commit to in ...
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