Month: November 2023

The 8th Pan African Forum on Migration (PAFoM-8) themed “Bolstering Free Movement and Trade Nexus in AfCFTA: Optimizing Benefits of Migration, Human Mobility and Development”, was held in Gaborone, Botswana recently. The Forum was hosted by the African Union in collaboration with the Government of Botswana, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), which implements its activities on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of […]

The Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is reviewing the training Policy for its stand by Force in order to strengthen peace support operations. To this end, a review workshop on the draft training policy of the ECOWAS Standby Force (ESF) begins on the 30th of November, 2023 in Abuja, Nigeria. The two-day Workshop which builds on the earlier one held by experts which reviewed the […]

Six months after Somalia emerged from a historic drought that pushed the country to the brink of widespread famine, another climate shock has struck as heavy rains and floods batter several areas of the country. Since October when the deyr rains started, about 2 million people have been affected by torrential rains, flash and riverine floods, with 750,000 people displaced from their homes and nearly 100 killed mostly in South […]

Finance Programme name: Financial package to Commercial International Bank of Egypt (CIB) Instruments and amounts: -  $10 million Line of credit with a tenor of 10 years, -  $90 million subordinated loan with a tenor of 10 years, -  $32 million trade finance line of credit with a tenor of 3.5 years -  $16 million trade finance line of credit from the Africa Growing Together Fund (AGTF) with a tenor of 3.5 years. Background […]