The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group will mobilize close to $4 million to help Burundi urgently procure over 3,000 tons of fertilizer over the upcoming agricultural season. The support will enable the country to procure fertilizer for the first phase of the season, which begins in May. The country’s needs for the entire season are […]

Rwanda’s Ministry of ICT and Innovation and Rwanda Convention Bureau have confirmed their partnership with the Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) for its 2023 conference. The 9th edition of the annual AWIEF Conference, Exhibition and Awards will be held at the Kigali Convention Centre, in Rwanda, on 9 and 10 November 2023. Established in […]

The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund has approved $8 million in funding toward the establishment of a digitally interoperable unique bank identification system and harmonized customer identification framework for The Gambia, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Implementation of the project will commence in July 2023, led by the West African Monetary Institute (WAMI), […]

A three-day Outcome Mapping Forum of the Teaching and Learning in Fragile Contexts (TLFC) Project was held recently in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital. The forum aimed to bring education partners and stakeholders together so they can jointly develop the detailed pathways of change and the eventual outcomes of the TLFC Project being implemented by CODE, TALLE […]

The interim report of an inquiry focusing on a new system for asylum seekers’ accommodation in Sweden was circulated today for consultation. Minister for Migration Maria Malmer Stenergard says “The proposals that are now going out for consultation aim to streamline the asylum process. “Among other things, it is proposed that the entire asylum process […]

Working in 23 African countries, CORAF (the West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development) is using agriculture to build resilience among local communities. Through this work, they are helping establish farmers as local agents of change. CORAF was founded in 1987 to help national research institutions tackle a multitude of challenges including environmental […]

Liberian President George Manneh Weah on Thursday spoke about his country’s democratic records, tracing the struggle of Liberians in strengthening and effectuating democracy for the shared benefits of all citizens and the rest of the world. President Weah gave the remarks when he virtually joined other leaders for the 2nd United States’ Summit for Democracy […]

By Ban Ki-moon, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations and Patrick Verkooijen, CEO of the Global Center on Adaptation The latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) came with all the usual warnings of the calamities that will befall us if we do not stop global warming now. But this is hardly news […]

Germany will support Kenya in its attempt to better penetrate the European Union market. Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz said Kenya is a true friend and stable country in Africa whose economy must be helped to thrive. “The better access to Europe will help Kenyan firms to produce and sell more. This will accelerate employment […]

UmojaHack Africa 2023, the single largest pan-African machine learning hackathon, took place on March 18-19. The event brought together over 1000 students from 345 universities in 36 countries to build machine learning models for climate change.  The winners of each challenge are: For the Rubik’s Cube Reinforcement Learning Challenge, the winners were Akram Badreddine Laissaoui and Nazim Bendib from […]