Ministerial Forum A Top Feature At Big 5 Construct Ethiopia, Alongside 20 CPD-certified Industry Talks With Insights On Trends And Opportunities In The Local Construction Sector
The Ministerial Forum is a highlight at this year’s Big 5 Construct Ethiopia, where the landscape of the local construction industry will be debated among ministers from several ministry offices across the country. This invite-only forum seeks to bolster resilience in the Ethiopian construction sector, poised for exciting growth. For access to opportunities in the […]
Climate Finance In Africa: African Development Bank Spearheading Innovative Mechanisms And Instruments
To build resilience against climate change, the countries have outlined tangible ambitions for green growth, including plans to increase climate investment Africa contributes the least – less than 3% — to global warming, yet the continent is the most vulnerable to climate risks. To build resilience against climate change, the countries have outlined tangible ambitions […]
PARM At RPCA: Agricultural Risk Management In Response To Food And Nutrition Security Challenges In Africa
The Platform for Agricultural Risk Management (PARM) actively participated in the 38th restricted meeting of the “Réseau pour la Prévention des Crises Alimentaires (RPCA)”. The conference was held from the 12th to 14th April 2023 in Paris, France. The event was a great opportunity for PARM to present its technical assistance at regional level with […]
Transforming Education With Equitable Financing
By Robert Jenkins With schools now reopened around the world, countries are called to take transformative action on education financing to recover and accelerate learning for all children, especially the poorest and most marginalized. Findings from our recent study, however, reveal that we have yet to overcome hurdles to equitable education financing: in far too many […]
British Activist Wants Same Help Given to Ukrainians Offered to Sudanese Fleeing Civil War
One of the architects of Britain’s Homes for Ukraine scheme is calling on the government to replicate the programme for refugees from Sudan. Dr Krish Kandiah, the director of the Sanctuary Foundation, which was instrumental in matching many British hosts with Ukrainian refugees, said he wanted the country to show the “same generosity of spirit” […]
Ex Ghanaian President’s Third Attempt at a Comeback
Former President John Mahama has been elected flag bearer of the largest opposition party in Ghana, the National Democratic Congress, ahead of elections next year. The former president was declared the winner on Sunday after securing 98.9% of total valid votes in the party’s primaries held on Saturday. His landslide victory was against his main […]
South Africa Look’s Into Gold Mafia Ring
South Africa has launched an investigation into several people involved in a gold smuggling and money laundering scheme exposed by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit. In a speech to the Parliament of South Africa, President Cyril Ramaphosa said this week the investigation was in the “inquiry stage”. The investigation is the direct result of Gold Mafia, […]
Should Nigeria’s Art Treasures Belong to the Nation or the Royal Oba?
The dispersal of the Benin bronzes around the world did much to cement their historical and aesthetic reputation as some of the finest artworks ever made in Africa. But views about how they were acquired have changed. The destruction of Benin City has come to be seen as one of the low points of British […]
A Plan to Compensate Zimbabwe’s Ex Farmers
The African Development Bank said Monday it had developed the financial tools needed to make over $3 billion in compensation payments to white farmers who lost land and other assets in Zimbabwe. The bank’s president Akinwumi Adesina, while speaking during a press conference in Harare, said the new proposal would ‘leverage capital markets’ to avoid […]
The World’s Biggest Chocolate Producers are Enjoying Large Profits Alone
The world’s biggest chocolate producers are enjoying large profits while failing to pass on the benefits to cocoa farmers, many of whom are suffering falling incomes and worsening poverty, according to a report from the charity Oxfam. The report was published ahead of World Fair Trade Day on May 13. The analysis focuses on Ghana, […]
