UN Women Executive Director To Attend The 1st African Summit On FGM And Child Marriage In Senegal
UN Women Executive Director, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, will represent the United Nations at the 1st African Summit on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and Child Marriage (CM), taking place in Dakar, Senegal on June 16-18. The objective of the summit is to translate the commitment of governments, religious leaders, traditional leaders, and other stakeholders to end FGM […]
Books For Africa And Barefoot Books Work With USAID To Send 300,000 Books In Portuguese To Children In Mozambique
In a major project with USAID and award-winning publisher, Barefoot Books, Books For Africa (BFA) will ship 300,000 books in Portuguese to children in Mozambique this month. Comprising 30,000 copies of 10 different titles, this shipment is part of a U.S. government-funded project to combat AIDS/HIV in Mozambique. The books will go to children, who […]
African Media Agency Partners With Women In Africa (WIA) Initiative’s 3rd Annual WIA Initiative Summit
African Media Agency (AMA), a leading pan-African media relations and communications firm today announced its partnership with Women In Africa (WIA) Initiative’s 3rd Annual WIA Initiative Summit taking place from 27 to 28 June 2019, in Marrakech, Morocco. WIA is an international platform dedicated to the economic development and support of leading and high potential African women. […]
HID Global Expands Commitment To Helping End Africa’s Identity Gap
Being able to verify people’s identities is critical for a nation’s growth and prosperity and yet nearly half of all African citizens can’t prove who they are to vote, travel freely and receive government benefits and services. HID Global®, a worldwide leader in trusted identity solutions, is launching an initiative to help close this identity […]
Vegan Lifestyle Looking Green For Investors As Beyond Meat Shares Sizzle
Beyond Meat, a premium vegan food company, listed on the New York exchange earlier this year, the company was able to attract a-list investors to fund the first veggie meat public company. Vegan lifestyle products are a growing industry in the country with mainstream grocers cashing-in on the growing trend, but really how big is […]
Entrepreneur Thione Niang’s Mission To Do Good And Change Lives
As a child, Thione Niang used to listen to his mother cry at night, and promised himself he would change her life. Creating that change meant escaping his childhood, spent growing up with 28 siblings in a polygamist family in Senegal. Twenty-five years later, and after moving to the United States with $20 in his […]
