Sunday, May 12, 2024 - 10:00
The Duchess was speaking at an event in Abuja to highlighted the importance of female leadership and empowerment.
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Sunday, May 12, 2024 - 09:51
Tunis, Tunisia — Tunisian security forces stormed the bar association in Tunis and arrested the lawyer and political commentator Sonia Dahmani after she made comments on television about the state of the country, her lawyers said.
The arrest late Saturday was covered live by the France 24 news...
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Sunday, May 12, 2024 - 09:37
The ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE) held a validation workshop for the ECREEE 2023-2027 Gender Mainstreaming Strategy and Action Plan Report the 9 May 2024 in […]
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Sunday, May 12, 2024 - 09:06
On May 10th, Yin Chengwu, Chinese Ambassador to Liberia, met with Ms. Bintia Stephen Tchicaya, the Representative of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The two sides exchanged views on strengthening multilateral cooperation in the […]
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Sunday, May 12, 2024 - 09:05
NAIROBI, Kenya — Armed with gardening hoes while others cradled bamboo seedlings, students gathered outside their school in Kenya's capital. They hoped the fully grown bamboo would help to filter filthy air from one of Africa's largest trash dumps next door.
More than 100 bamboo plantings dot the...
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Sunday, May 12, 2024 - 09:04
NAIROBI, Kenya — Winnie Makinda, 35, says she is facing the worst crisis and lowest moment of her life because of the Kenyan government's response to floods that devastated her poor community in the capital, Nairobi.
The floods and mudslides swept away people and inundated homes, killing at least...
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Sunday, May 12, 2024 - 08:57
The Duchess of Sussex describes the "eye opening" experience of learning about her Nigerian ancestry.
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Sunday, May 12, 2024 - 08:57
The Duchess of Sussex describes the "eye opening" experience of learning about her Nigerian ancestry.
BBC News - Africa
Sunday, May 12, 2024 - 08:57
The Duchess of Sussex describes the "eye opening" experience of learning about her Nigerian ancestry.
BBC News - Africa
Sunday, May 12, 2024 - 08:56
After decades of instability and conflict in Central African Republic one in five Central Africans is either internally displaced or has found refuge abroad.
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Sunday, May 12, 2024 - 08:49
The government will consistently address the persistent human resource challenges that slow down the realisation of Universal Health Coverage, President William Ruto has said. The President said the government will […]
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Sunday, May 12, 2024 - 08:24
I am gravely concerned by the eruption of clashes in Al Fasher despite repeated calls to parties to the conflict to refrain from attacking the city. I reiterate – the […]
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Sunday, May 12, 2024 - 08:16
Child-directed educational technology can deliver high quality education for millions of marginalised children worldwide.
Nicola Pitchford, Professor of Developmental Psychology, University of Nottingham
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Sunday, May 12, 2024 - 08:16
To eliminate female genital mutilation by 2030, progress would need to be 27 times faster. Understanding shifting trends behind this practice is a start.
Tamsin Bradley, Professor of International Development Studies, University of Portsmouth
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Thursday, January 24, 2019 - 09:51
Nigeria’s lead female presidential Obiageli Ezekwesili has withdrawn from the race with just 22 days left to the much hyped polls.
In a statement released Thursday (24 January) she said she was stepping aside from “to help build a coalition to defeat” the two main contenders –...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2019 - 19:25
Oliver Mtukudzi is no more. For decades he was not only a household name in Africa, but across the globe and appealed to a diverse audiences. However, as we reported in the archive piece below when Ish Mafundikwa caught up with him back in 2012, there was much much more to the affable Tuku,...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2019 - 16:08
Perhaps for the first time since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the annual gathering of the world’s richest nations (and a fair sprinkling of those on the other side of the divide) for the World Economic Forum summit at Davos, Switzerland, will show more fissures than the proverbial Swiss...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2019 - 11:50
The election of Dr. Abiy Ahmed as Ethiopia’s new Prime Minister could well prove to be a pivotal moment in the country’s history. Suddenly, everything is possible. By Mimi Alemayehou
Certain years in the life of a nation can be so pivotal that they represent a rebirth. Think of 1865,...
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Monday, January 21, 2019 - 17:15
Job Title Field: Chief of Section | Innovative Finance & Capital Markets Section (P5)
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Established by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations (UN) in 1958 as one of the UN’s five regional commissions, ECA’s mandate is...
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