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The government is re-engineering the National Youth Service to enhance its capacity and productivity. President William Ruto said NYS has adopted a fresh approach that will transform it into a financially sustainable and self-reliant institution. The NYS, he observed, has adopted a business model that will not only generate revenues to sustain its programmes but also test its outputs in the marketplace to constantly improve its relevance and competitiveness. The […]

Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) installed a drying and fermentation plant within the cooperative that is growing cocoa in the Centre Region of Cameroon. Within the scope of the project, the opening ceremony of the drying and fermentation plant installed in Ngomedzap, a town in the Centre Region, was held. The goal of the plant is to enable the cocoa that is produced by Mvem Cooperative of Cocoa Producers […]

In a meeting conducted yesterday, 7 December, the National Voluntary Blood Donors Association stated that it is working to ensure full blood supply from voluntary donors and partners. At the meeting in which activity report was presented, a number of representatives of various ministries, government institutions, PFDJ, national organizations and associations, administrations, as well as the association of taxi owners and others took part. Dr. Yohannes Tekeste, Medical Director of […]

On December 8, 2023 in Malabo the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, Sergei Aleinik, met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Diaspora of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, Simeon Oyono Esono Angue.  The parties noted significant progress in the implementation of the agreements reached following the talks between the heads of states in Minsk in September 2023.  It was stressed that in a […]

HE Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani participated today in Washington in the meeting of members of the ministerial committee assigned by the extraordinary joint Arab-Islamic summit, with HE Chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senator Ben Cardin, and a number of committee members. Also participating in the meeting were HH Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi […]

As Haiti faces a situation of “absolute brutal violence”, the deployment of a multi-national security support mission is awaited with hope, the UN’s top humanitarian official in the country said on Friday. Ulrika Richardson, the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Haiti, who is also the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, told journalists in Geneva that 5.2 million Haitians need humanitarian assistance and over 4.3 million face acute food […]

For the first time since 1989 the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has triggered Article 99 of the UN Charter. The reason is set out in his letter to the Security Council expressing the gravest alarm at the danger of “a collapse of the humanitarian system” in Gaza. The Secretary General emphasizes the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Gaza and the inability to reach those in need. The UN analysis is in […]

Fanny Galeta, 16, wasn’t sure how to react when she learned her initiation ceremony was planned. “No one really tells you the truth about what happens there,” she told UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. “Many things are kept secret. I tried to reach out to my friends who had been and they just laughed. They told me I would have to find out for myself.” But […]

Governments of France, Japan, Spain and the UK express support for use of hybrid SDR instrument  to provide development resources to countries in need in Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean; IMF staff confirms reserve asset status of the innovative solution by the African Development Bank (http://www.AfDB.org) and Inter-American Development Bank to channel SDRs to Multilateral Development Banks and signals readiness to bring SDR hybrid capital proposal to the IMF’s […]