June 2022

Peace Building and Governance

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There are quite a several challenges faced by the communities living in ASAL area include population pressure, shrinking natural resource base, increased cattle raiding incidents and communal conflicts. Peace Building revolves around developing social capital and political relations across ethnic, religious, national and racial boundaries. This process includes violence prevention, conflict management, resolution or transformation […]

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Access to Finance for Women Will Narrow Global Hunger Gap – AfDB

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The African Development Bank (AfDB) has said that access to finance for women will bolster inclusivity in Africa and narrow the global hunger gap. Specifically, the Director-General, West Africa Regional Development and Business Delivery office of the bank, Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade, said this in a telephone interview with NAN at the weekend. Speaking, Akin-Olugbade noted that

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Zeepay Hosts Disrupt 270 Conference To Mark International Day Of Family Remittances

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Launches new product to provide insurance cover for all remitters and their dependants Zeepay Company Limited, on Thursday June 16, 2022 hosted the second edition of Disrupt 270 Conference on the theme “Leveraging Remittances for Digital Inclusion and Impact” to commemorate the International Day of Family Remittances. The one-day thought leadership conference provided insights on the evolution

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Put women’s rights ‘front and centre’ of climate policies: Bachelet

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Although climate change threatens everyone, women and girls often suffer its harshest and most violent consequences, UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Monday. “While I welcome the international attention on climate change’s impact on women and girls over the last decade, we must urgently also focus on the grave issue of violence against them which

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While Africa Does Have Many Entrepreneurs, Are They The Right Kind?

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While Africa does have many entrepreneurs, are they the right kind, asks Adam Molai, an African industrialist and founder of TRT Investments which manages a diversified sector portfolio and operations in Nigeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique and Kenya, and whose latest interests have seen a foray into the US and European markets. Why does Africa, which

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AWIEF2022: First 30+ Speakers Revealed

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The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) has announced the first 30+ speakers for their annual conference and awards set to take place as a hybrid event in Cairo, Egypt, on the 26 and 27 September 2022, in partnership with Egypt’s Ministry for International Cooperation and co-organized by the Egyptian Businessmen’s Association (EBA). AWIEF2022 will see some of

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Rise to the challenge: building intelligent enterprises in West Africa

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The past few years have been a wake-up call to businesses to speed up their digital transformation efforts and more quickly adopt the technologies needed to deal with disruption. Business leaders today are digitising with haste, seeking to enhance products and services, future-proof their businesses, drive innovation, and improve customer experiences. While governments in West

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Strategies for Northern Development

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The Strategies for Northern Development (SND) is a local non-governmental organization working with nomadic pastoralist communities in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia. SND was registered in Kenya with NGO coordination board as a fully-fledged NGO on 6th of December 2007 and Agency for Civil Society organization in Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia on 21st October 2019. It sprouted

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