What Political Leadership Can Do to Accelerate Innovation!
07/10/2016By Bill Gates As the U.S. presidential candidates lay out competing visions for the country, I have been thinking about a topic they have not yet discussed in detail: what.
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Nigeria Lowers 2016 Forecast, Expects Economy to Shrink 1.3 Pct
06/10/2016By Chijioke Ohuocha ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s economy is likely to shrink 1.3 percent in 2016, the National Bureau of Statistics executive said on Wednesday, a sharp downward revision of.
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Ethiopia Launches Project for Youth, Women Entrepreneurs
06/10/2016A project that supports Ethiopian youth and women entrepreneurs was launched here today. The Young and Women Entrepreneurship Promotion (YoWEP) project is co-funded and implemented in partnership with the governments.
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Peace and Security
UN Says It Alone Cannot Remove S. Sudanese Rebels from DRC
06/10/2016By Nick Long The U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo said Wednesday that it could not take sole responsibility for removing 750 disarmed South Sudanese fighters.
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Entrepreneurship
5 Vital Skills Schools Are Failing to Teach Well Enough
06/10/2016By Bernard Marr Used to be that reading, writing, and arithmetic were all you needed to get by and do well in the world — but that was also around.
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Next U.S. President Inherits Sinking Russia Ties
06/10/2016By Arshad Mohammed and Jonathan Landay Confronted by Russia in Syria, Ukraine and cyberspace, the next U.S. president will be the fourth to face Vladimir Putin and the challenge of.
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Governance and Policy
Ivory Coast: President Says New Constitution Will Reinforce Social Cohesion
06/10/2016By Emilie Iob Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara presented the draft of the new constitution to parliament Wednesday. Among the reforms is the removal of a clause that helped.
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UN says Climate Change Affecting the Poor Most
05/10/2016Climate change is taking its largest toll on the world’s poor, aggravating existing inequalities, a new report launched by the United Nations has found. The report, titled Climate Change.
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Pence Takes Tougher Line than Trump on Russia at Contentious VP Debate
05/10/2016By Ginger Gibson and Alana Wise U.S. Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “small and bullying leader” on Tuesday and condemned his actions.
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Uganda: Ireland Gives Shs74 Billion to Fight HIV in Karamoja
05/10/2016By Rachel Mabala The Irish Ambassador to Uganda has warned that the HIV/Aids prevalence in the Karamoja sub-region, north-eastern Uganda, could rise beyond the national average if efforts to fight.
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