Urbanization in Africa: Creating greater access to customer?
20/09/2020By Heléna Costaras Africa is the fastest urbanizing region in the world with an average annual urbanization rate of 3.2%, well ahead of the global average of 2%. 472 million.
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Development in Africa: Afrofuturistic Paradise, Akon City to Begin in 2021
01/09/2020The reality of a utopia is about to happen in Africa. This is in connection to the futuristic pan-African kingdom, Akon City, named after the Senegalese-American Hip hop R&B recording.
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Merck Foundation Marks World ART (Artificial Reproductive Technology) Day by training local Embryologists and Fertility Specialists across Africa and Asia
25/07/2020Merck Foundation provides long term hands-on Embryology & Fertility Specialists training, to develop local Embryologists & Fertility Experts across Africa and Asia. Merck Foundation makes history by training the first.
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Mastercard Foundation and USIU-Africa partner to expand access to higher education in Africa
14/07/2020USIU-Africa and the Mastercard Foundation have announced a partnership that will enable 1,000 high-performing students to receive quality education and leadership development over the next ten years under the Mastercard.
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Africa Development
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Nigeria’s Niger Delta University shines at the 4th Africa Summit 2020 – as Vice-Chancellor, Prof. SG Edoumiekumo wins African Educational Icon award
26/06/2020The Niger Delta University, located in Bayelsa State, in Nigeria’s South-South region, was honoured at the 4th Africa Summit 2020, which held virtually on Thursday 25 June 2020. The institution.
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Africa Medical Supplies Platform – Creating Access for a Unified Continental Response to COVID19
19/06/2020African Social Start-up Studio Janngo, has joined forces with the African Union Chairperson, Special Envoy Strive Masiyiwa and the Africa Centre for Disease Control (CDC), to launch the Africa Medical.
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African Development Bank approves $500,000 emergency relief aid to tackle the impact of COVID-19 in Egypt
28/05/2020Since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic in March 2020, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has gone to exceptional lengths to help alleviate the economic and social.
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We All Can Commit To Climate Actions To Mitigate Climate Crisis
22/05/2020By Mayowa Jolayemi Recently, I have begun to wonder about the attention, speedy responses and urgent support that the local, national and international communities, even individuals have given the COVID-19.
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SDGs: The need for the United Nations to Consider an Extension from 2030
11/05/2020By Mayowa Jolayemi In September 2000 under the secretary generalship of Kofi Annan, world leaders met and ratified a declaration where they all committed to pursuing a set of eight.
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Nestlé partners with IDH’s Grown Sustainably in Africa programme to boost local sourcing in Central and West Africa
23/04/2020ACCRA, Ghana — Nestlé has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with IDH Sustainable Trade Initiative, as part of the Grown Sustainably in Africa (GSA) programme. The three-year partnership aims to support.
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