70 Years of Building Bridges: AAI Celebrates with Glitz and Grandeur
In an evening adorned with the spirit of unity and celebration, AAI (Africa-America Institute) marked its 70th Anniversary Gala on September 19th, gathering a plethora of esteemed personalities at the grand Cipriani’s 42nd in New York City. The event was a testament to AAI’s commitment to fostering relationships, understanding, and collaboration between Africa and America. […]
World Teachers Day: Salute To African Teachers
By Segun Ogunsanya There is no gainsaying the fact that teachers are crucial to the process of education. In appraising the nexus between teaching and learning, teachers rank highest in importance because they organically facilitate the most critical part of education. Strictly speaking, the ecosystem, which comprises children, parents, teachers, government, writers, publishers, and now […]
Mastercard And Equity Bank To Work Together To Foster Financial Inclusion In Uganda
Mastercard and Equity Bank Uganda signed a memorandum of understanding today aimed at improving financial inclusion for digitally excluded individuals, communities, and businesses in Uganda. Equity Bank intends to leverage Mastercard’s Community Pass solution to: Mastercard Community Pass is a set of platform services that enables digital inclusion and provides a commercially sustainable approach to […]
Unlocking Cross-Border Trade: Multigate Secures Money Remittance Business Licenses For Uganda And Nigeria
Multigate, a licensed financial services platform company that delivers secure and innovative digital solutions to address the complex financial needs of corporates and financial institutions, has been granted a Money Remittance Business license by the Bank of Uganda and an International Money Transfer Operator (IMTO) license from the Central Bank of Nigeria. This marks another […]
AIMS Invites Applications for the African Master’s in Machine Intelligence (AMMI) Program 2023/2024 Cohort
KIGALI, Rwanda, 5 October, 2023 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) announces the opening of applications for the African Master’s in Machine Intelligence (AMMI) program, welcoming prospective students to embark on a transformative journey towards becoming experts in machine intelligence. AMMI, a groundbreaking one-year, fully funded graduate program, is designed to equip […]
Africa Resilience Forum: African Development Bank Head Says Peace-Building In Africa Must Be An Aim Of Investment Decisions
The Africa Resilience Forum is a call to action to work together and make a transition from policy dialogue to investment, and then from investment to impact Peace and security in Africa must be an aim of investment decisions, the African Development Bank (https://www.AfDB.org) President told delegates at a forum aimed at exploring ways to […]
Four Innovators Awarded Africa Young Innovators For Health Award For Contributions To Universal Health Coverage
The Award focused on innovation that can help extend population coverage, extend service coverage, and ensure financial protection for patients The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA) (https://www.IFPMA.org/) and Speak Up Africa have announced the winners of the second edition of the Africa Young Innovators for Health Award (https://AfricaYoungInnovatorsforHealth.org/). Mrs Teniola Aderonke Adedeji (Nigeria) and Dr. […]
Mauritian Court Finds Sodomy Law Unconstitutional, Discriminatory
Ruling Removes a Colonial-Era Relic from Statute Books Two landmark judgments of the Supreme Court of Mauritius have struck down the provision in the Criminal Code that outlawed consensual sex between men, rejecting the law as a discriminatory colonial relic. In a case brought by an individual, Abdool Ridwan Firaas Ah Seek, and supported by […]
Russia, China Unfit for UN’s Top Rights Body
Cuba, Burundi Also Fail to Meet Human Rights Council Membership Standards (New York) – United Nations member countries should deny Russia and China seats on the UN Human Rights Council in voting at the UN General Assembly on October 10, 2023, Human Rights Watch said today. Authorities in both countries have been responsible for numerous […]
