The U.S. and Nigerian governments along with U.S. digital industrial company General Electric will launch a new mother-and-child health initiative that would expand access to digital antenatal screenings to more than 2 million expectant mothers across Nigeria. The Healthymagination Mother and Child Initiative will reduce preventable mother and infant deaths. U.S. Ambassador James F. Entwistle; […]
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New Event to Ignite Africa’s Gaming Potential
Africa’s gaming potential will be explored and celebrated at WrB Africa (http://Africa.WrBriefing.com), taking place on 11-12 April at The Sheraton Lagos Hotel, Nigeria. As part of the WrB Series run by Clarion Events, WrB Africa is the first ever summit dedicated to exploring the exciting opportunities and encouraging a regulatory framework that will produce a […]
Hitachi Data Systems Delivers Next-Generation Hyper-Converged, Scale-Out Platform for Big Data, Powered by Pentaho
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS) (www.HDS.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. unveiled its next generation Hitachi Hyper Scale-Out Platform (HSP), offering native integration with the Pentaho Enterprise Platform to deliver a sophisticated, software-defined, hyper-converged platform for big data deployments. Modern enterprises increasingly need to derive value from massive volumes of data generated by information […]
Invitation to a press briefing on The government of Japan’s contribution to humanitarian mine action in Sudan
The United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), the Embassy of the Government of Japan and the National Mine Action Center cordially invite you to attend and cover the press briefing on the support by the Government of Japan for humanitarian mine action in Sudan. Who: H.E. Hideki Ito the Ambassador of Japan to Sudan, Mr. […]
African Union Launches Campaign on First Year of the African Day of School Feeding : Statement of the Chairperson of the AU Commission
Your Excellency the Prime Minister of Niger; Your Excellencies the Ministers; The Representatives of Ministries; Technical and Financial Partners; Civil Society Representatives; Distinguished Delegates; Ladies and gentlemen; Boys and girls, I have the honour and great pleasure to express my gratitude to the African Union Member Statesfor endorsing the recommendation on the promotion of School Feeding programmes […]
Industry Veteran Bani Haddad Launches Aleph Hospitality in Bid to Accelerate Growth of Middle East and African Hotel Landscape
Aleph Hospitality (http://www.AlephHospitality.com), a pioneering third-party hotel management company founded by industry veteran Bani Haddad and headquartered in Dubai, today marked its official launch with the unveiling of the company’s new website, alephhospitality.com. In addition to providing prospective hotel owners and business partners with an overview of the company’s services, the site seeks to help […]
School meals are a critical safety net and vital investment in people’s future – WFP, African Union
The heads of the African Union (AU) and United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today hailed the inaugural Africa Day of School Feeding, marking AU recognition of school meals as the world’s most widely used safety net with a vital role in education. School meals provide critical social support, encouraging more regular attendance at school […]
Visa Expands footprint in Francophone Africa to accelerate digital Payments, Financial Inclusion Efforts and Support Economic Development
Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) (http://www.Visa.com), a global payment company, today announced its intention to open an office in Côte d'Ivoire to reinforce its position as a leading payments technology company and to help bringing the benefits of electronic payments to the economy and a broader range of consumers and merchants across the region. Visa is […]
Japan-Egypt Joint Statement
(Introduction) 1. Upon the invitation by H.E. Mr. Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, H.E. Mr. Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, paid an official visit to Japan from 28th of February to 2nd of March 2016. 2. Prime Minister Abe welcomed the visit of President El-Sisi in response to the visit of Prime […]
South African organisations report the highest rate of economic crime in the world over the last two years: PwC Global Economic Crime Survey
69% of organisations report being victims of economic crime 32% of organisations have experienced cybercrime 70% of survey respondents view local law enforcement as inadequately resourced to fight economic crime South African organisations reported a considerably higher frequency in the incidence of economic crime in comparison to their African and global peers, with more than […]