The inaugural Africa Summit on Women and Girls in Technology sponsored by the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) and the World Wide Web Foundation took place on the 13-14th September, 2016 at the Labadi Beach Hotel, Accra. The summit brought together a wealth of human capital from over twenty-eight different countries with various areas of…
The Youth Forward initiative aims to improve the capacity of hundreds of thousands of young women and men in Ghana and Uganda to get jobs, grow their businesses and access finance to expand the opportunities available to them. This programme is in partnership with The MasterCard Foundation and implemented by four consortia comprising 28 organisations…
Climate Interactive, an oragnization that works with a diverse range of partners and clients to figure out what choices will address the pressing challenges of today and enable a thriving future for our children and future generations tomorrow has announced that it’s efforts to build African capacity on climate change modeling and decision tools have…
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Mark Zuckerberg made a sudden appearance in Nairobi last week in the dead of night on a scouting mission. Facebook’s billionaire founder was after the crown jewel in East and Central Africa’s most profitable company, Safaricom: M-Pesa. Dressed characteristically nonchalantly in a grey T-shirt and blue jeans, Mr Zuckerberg laid out his intentions plainly. “I…
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has released its latest report on Global Education Monitoring. The new Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report by UNESCO, indicates the potential for education to propel progress towards all global goals outlined in the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDGs). It also shows that education needs a…
Sri Lanka on Tuesday became the third and most populous country in Asia to be declared malaria-free by the World Health Organization. Only the Maldives and Singapore have also been declared free of the disease in the region but both countries have less than a quarter of Sri Lanka’s 21 million population. The island nation’s…
6 September 2016. Poverty rates have declined in African countries, a new report released by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA): Dubbed ‘African Agriculture Status Report (AASR): Progress towards an Agriculture Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa’, the report says that Ghana, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Burkina Faso have experienced a high decline in poverty rates. The…
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