What could potentially be the consequences of Brexit on African countries? It’s still of course quite uncertain what’s going to happen and right now it’s seems difficult to judge whether it’s going to have a good or brutal impact on African countries. There are a number of ways in which Brexit could have an impact […]

In a glittering ceremony that marked the five-year milestone anniversary of the Innovation Prize for Africa  the landmark programme of the African Innovation Foundation (AIF) innovative healthcare solutions took pole position this year, offering ground-breaking responses to address Africa’s prevailing malaria and HIV/AIDS burdens. Out of a total of 985 applications, 10 nominees were selected, and […]

By the time I reported the sexual abuse of children by peacekeepers in Central African Republic in 2014, I had worked for the UN for nearly 20 years; writes Anders Kompass There is no hierarchy in the horror and brutality I witnessed during those two decades – massacres, torture, killings, the displacement of populations – but an […]

Sweden’s Prime Minister Stefan Löfven together with King Carl Gustaf on Tuesday inaugurated synchrotron light source MAX IV in Lund in the south of the country. MAX IV is a sort of microscope for studying the make-up, qualities and functions of various materials by means of intense X-rays (synchrotron light). The light used has an energy […]

Aleda, a French company specialising in paperless payment solutions and money transfers, has established itself as a key player in the sector with the recent launch of Orange Money. The Orange Money mobile payment solution launched in France on the 15th of June thanks to the expertise of both Orange and Aleda, the first distributer […]

The last decades hundreds of millions of people have left extreme poverty. Today more than 90 percent of all children are enrolled in school, even in developing countries. Thanks to digitalization we are more closely interconnected with each other than ever before. Knowledge and ideas flow throughout the world and transcend all previous boundaries. At […]

Eritreans and friends of Eritrea in Europe and the rest of the globe will hold a mass rally in Geneva, Switzerland on Tuesday, June 21, 2016, to protest against the latest sickening report of the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in Eritrea, a three-man panel that has never set foot in the country and […]

The chairman of a special presidential task force investigating corruption in Liberia is in the United States to hold discussions with Liberian lawyers residing in the US on asset recovery issues. According to a release issued Wednesday by the task force, its chairman, Cllr Jonathan Fonati Koffa said that the discussions will focus on how Liberia can be able […]

As part of the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs’s public diplomacy campaign #FirstGeneration, on 9 June the Swedish Consulate-General in New York held a seminar and panel discussion on the theme of engaging young people in the work on the UN Global Goals.   The event took place at the Swedish-owned design firm Trollbäck + Company […]

Low commodity prices, tightening global financial conditions and drought in parts of the region are holding back economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa this year. The slowdown is particularly pronounced among oil exporters (Nigeria, Angola), but has also weighed on non-energy mineral exporters (South Africa, Zambia).  Electricity shortages, the Ebola epidemic, conflict and political and security […]