Civilians at Risk as Large-Scale Fighting Looms in Darfur
Civilian Casualties, Threat of Atrocities Mount Following Fighting in El Fasher Vicinity After a months-long, uneasy détente between Sudan’s two warring parties, hundreds of thousands of civilians sheltering in the city of El Fasher in Darfur are in the crosshairs. In the past few days, several villages near El Fasher appear to have been […]
The Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism receives $7.3 million to boost agricultural productivity and smallholder farmers’ income
Workers carrying bags of fertilizer at a warehouse in Njombe, Tanzania. ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, 18 April 2024 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/-Global Affairs Canada(link is external) has provided $7.3 million in funding to the Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism (AFFM) to enhance sustainable agricultural productivity and smallholder farmer livelihoods, particularly women and youth across Africa. The financing will aid the Mechanism […]
Medicines For Malaria Venture Appoints New CEO
Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), a leading not-for-profit partnership dedicated to combating malaria, has today announced the appointment of Martin Fitchet MD as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Martin brings over 25 years of experience across Pharmaceuticals, MedTech and Global Public Health and joins from Johnson & Johnson where he was most recently the […]
Partners Brace To Respond To One Of The Worst Droughts In Southern Africa
The southern African region is experiencing one of its worst droughts indecades, and millions are facing extreme food insecurity and water shortages, amidst a growing climate crisis, fuelled by the El Niño weather phenomenon. In a recent meeting between Reena Ghelani, UN Assistant Secretary General and Climate Crisis Coordinator for the El Niño/La Niña response; […]
SBM Bank (Mauritius) Ltd And TDB Group Sign An MoU To Collaborate On Business Development, Co-Financing And Capacity Building
SBM Bank (Mauritius) Ltd (SBM Bank), one of the leading banking institutions in Mauritius, and the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank Group (TDB Group) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on opportunities for joint cooperation in various fields, including business development, co-financing and joint capacity building. The signing ceremony […]
Africa Code Week And Partners Equip 17 Million Youth With Digital Skills
SAP Africa Code Week (ACW) in partnership with UNESCO, the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), and Irish Aid, has successfully empowered 17 million young people across 54 countries, since 2015. This is according to the program’s latest impact results. The initiative has also helped integrate coding and computational thinking into the national curricula of seven African countries, advancing […]
Gambia Moves To Reverse Ban On Female Genital Mutilation
Efforts will Have Serious Consequences for Gender Equality and Women’s Health Gambia may soon become the first nation to reverse a ban against the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM). Gambia passed a law banning the practice in 2015. But the parliament is now moving to overturn the ban, arguing that such an effort is […]
