Ghanaian carmaker, Kantanka Automobile Company’s determination to produce commercial quantities of cars received government backing last week after the country’s vice president bought three of the company’s vehicles to add to the president’s office vehicle fleet. Vice president Kwesi Amissah-Arthur took delivery of two Kantanka Onantefuo 4X4 vehicles after touring the company’s plant site in…
A priest has been killed in an attack by two armed men at his church near Rouen in northern France, police and French media have said.The armed men entered the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray during Mass, taking the priest, Fr Jacques Hamel, 84, and four other people hostage.French TV said shots had been heard after police…
AJ+ went to Ghana to meet Bernice Dapaah, who welcomed us on her bicycle. The Ghanaian does business the green way. She grows bamboo and transforms it into bikes in her hometown of Kumasi. Six years ago, just before she graduated with a degree in Business Administration, Dapaah decided to do something on her own.…
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The nongovernmental organizations Jack Cornforth works with don’t have the capacity to generate and use data in constructive ways — let alone share it. Cornforth, the coordinator for Civicus’ DataShift initiative, has been tailoring capacity building programs based on data problems at civil society organizations in Argentina, Tanzania, Kenya and Nepal for the past two years. Those…
A couple of years ago, New Philanthropy Capital polled the British people on what they thought of charities. It made tough reading for development NGOs here. When people imagined small, community-led groups doing a bit of local work, they felt quite positive about charities. But when people were thinking about wealthy, international organizations instead, their…
