Month: September 2024

 St. George’s University (SGU) (www.SGU.edu), an accredited School of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies, recently held a successful information session at Hotel 340 in Gaborone, Botswana, on September 18, 2024. The event, hosted by Amy Karabus, SGU’s Student Recruitment Manager for Africa, provided prospective students and their families with insights into pursuing a medical career with SGU. Attendees had the opportunity to explore SGU’s 4-Year Medical Degree (MD) program as […]

 The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) on 20 September 2024 approved a $129.71 million loan to Tanzania for the implementation of a youth-focused agribusiness program. The loan will fund the first phase of the “Building a Better Tomorrow: Youth Initiatives for Agribusiness” program, which aims to create business opportunities and jobs for young people in key agricultural sectors. The total cost of the project is […]

 Today, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi met with Prime Minister, Dr. Moustafa Madbouly. The meeting was also attended by Minister of Local Development, Dr. Manal Awad; Governor of South Sinai, Major General Dr. Khaled Mubarak; Adviser to the President for Urban Planning, Major General Amir Sayed Ahmed, and Head of the Armed Forces Engineering Authority, Major General Ahmed Al-Azazy. Spokesman for the Presidency, Ambassador Ahmed Fahmy, said the meeting reviewed the various aspects of the […]

 Barka High School in the Central Region presented awards to 61 outstanding students in recognition of their exceptional performance in the 2023/2024 national school-leaving examinations. The awardees are members of the 36th round of the national service. Mr. Semere Gebreleul, the school’s director, stated that the award recipients include 30 students who achieved a GPA of 4.0 and 31 who achieved GPAs ranging from 3.6 to 3.8. He stressed that […]

 HE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Sultan bin Saad Al Muraikhi met with HE Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Sudan Hussein Awad Ali, on the sidelines of the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 79) in New York. During the meeting, they reviewed cooperation relations between the two countries and ways to support and enhance them, as well as a number […]

 World Health Organization (WHO) in the African Region and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) have endorsed a regional collaboration framework to strengthen public health emergency response, especially at the community level, and bolster health security. With the WHO in the African Region’s presence in 47 countries and the IFRC's Africa Regional Office’s support of 49 National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in sub-Saharan […]

 Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) established a sewing workshop at the Women’s Shelter within the King’s Hope Development Foundation, located in the Olievenhoutbosch neighborhood of Tshwane, South Africa, to empower women through vocational training. The unused space at the King’s Hope Women’s Shelter in Olievenhoutbosch, one of the poorest neighborhoods in Tshwane, was renovated and equipped with sewing machines by TİKA. Ten female trainees who successfully completed the first […]

 The Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) and UK government programme MOBILIST, have announced a new partnership at a launch event in Nairobi. The launch was attended by His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for Africa, John Humphrey, at the start of a three-day visit to Kenya. The partnership aims to drive the listing of new investment products in the Kenyan market and increase the amount of private sector capital available for development and […]

 The Economic Commission for Africa Office for North Africa has launched today a capacity-building workshop for women leading small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), in collaboration with the Libyan Ministry of Economy and Trade. The training will focus on best practices and peer learning in export, digitization, and sustainable investments, and will take place in Tunis (Tunisia) on 24-27 September 2024. Participants will include entrepreneurs and representatives from the Ministry. “The […]