Month: September 2024

 All three million children in Borno state in Northeast Nigeria are without school indefinitely, increasing the likelihood of child marriage and other protection risks, after being hit by the worst floods in 30 years, Save the Children said [1]. More than 400,000 people have been uprooted from their homes across the state and tens of thousands of children are crammed into the buildings that have avoided damage, such as schools, […]

 Kifiya (www.Kifiya.com), a leading AI-powered, alternative data-driven scoring, embedded finance, and AgTech company, has been awarded the prestigious Silver Award in the Product Innovation of the Year category in Africa at the Global SME Finance Awards 2024, held as part of the Global SME Finance Forum in São Paulo, Brazil on September 17, 2024. The Global SME Finance Awards, organized by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the SME Finance […]

 Today, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Administrator and Feed the Future Coordinator Samantha Power announced that the United States government, working with Congress, has committed more than $80 million of new Feed the Future funds and supplemental resources to rapidly respond to impacts of recent droughts and the lingering macroeconomic shocks of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. These funds through Feed the Future, the U.S. government’s global hunger initiative, build […]

 The President of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Omar Zniber (Morocco), has appointed Reed Bródy of Hungary as member of the Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua. Mr. Bródy’s appointment follows the resignation of Ángela María Buitrago as member of the Group of Human Rights Experts, which was created by the Human Rights Council in 2022 to “investigate all alleged human rights violations and abuses committed in Nicaragua since April […]

 Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) launched the “Breeding Broiler Production Project” to reduce Somalia’s reliance on imported chicken meat. As part of the Project for Developing Layer Poultry Farming in Somalia, launched in 2020 through a collaboration between TİKA and Zamzam University’s Anatolian Faculty of Agriculture, a poultry house and hatchery facility were constructed within the faculty. Building on this initiative, a Feed Production Center was established in 2023 […]

 “I have not seen my husband since 2016. I have eight children to take care of, and I don’t know what the future holds. Still, it is our shared difficulties that make us strong”. Mariam Suna* is one of thousands of women who sought sanctuary from the United Nations peacekeeping mission, UNMISS, when violent conflict broke out in Juba, the capital of South Sudan. Today, the camp is no longer […]

 According to the March 2024 food and nutrition situation analysis of the Cadre Harmonisé, about 50 million people in West Africa and the Sahel, including more than 1 million people in Ghana, are food insecure and need assistance to cover their basic food needs. Against this backdrop, the ECOWAS Commission decided to donate 500 Metric Tons of cereals to Ghana as the expression of regional solidarity. The Handover ceremony took […]

 In South Sudan, where challenges like disease outbreaks, limited healthcare access, conflicts, and flooding are frequent, there's a strong push to improve health services. With support from the World Health Organization (WHO) and other global partners, the country has embarked on its Second Joint External Evaluation (JEE) of the International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005. “The first JEE in 2017 spurred significant advancements, such as developing the National Action Plan for […]

 The Portfolio Committee on Mineral and Petroleum Resources looks forward to exercising impactful oversight in the mineral and petroleum sector following a successful engagement with non-governmental sector stakeholders on Tuesday. The committee viewed the engagement as a capacity-building exercise to gather as much information as possible about issues, challenges and opportunities confronting the sector. It is confident that the engagement session was insightful and empowering. The stakeholders that participated were, […]