United States Ambassador to Ghana, Robert P. Jackson, launched the “Promoting Transparency and Accountability in Education” activity at the Northern Network for Education Development (NNED) headquarters in Tamale, Ghana on April 1, 2016. At the event, Ambassador Jackson and NNED Executive Committee Chair Rosemond Kumah signed a cooperative agreement for the 18-month, $648,000 USAID activity, […]
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IOM Works with Government, Partners to Train DRC Police in Community Policing
To promote better relations between the police and population in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), IOM has initiated a community policing program in Mbuji-Mayi, Kasai Oriental province, and Lubumbashi in Haut-Katanga province. The project is supported by the USA and Canada. In Mbuji-Mayi, 400 officers from the Community Policing Police and 50 from the […]
IOM Boosts Income Generation for Returnees in Democratic Republic of the Congo
IOM DRC has launched an income generation scheme for 573 former internally displaced people (IDPs) in Kamuronza, Muvunyi and Karuba Muvunyi-Shanga areas, with financial support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The scheme is part of an IOM project, ''Protection and food security assistance for internally displaced persons and returnees in the […]
Tanzanian Health Care Gets Boost from AKU’s New Nursing/Midwifery Training Facility
Aga Khan University opened the new home of its School of Nursing and Midwifery in Dar es Salaam at Salama House. This state-of-the-art facility will educate nursing and midwifery leaders dedicated to saving lives and improving health care for the people of Tanzania. The €1.2 million (TSh 2.95 billion) project was funded as part of a €17.2 […]
Handover Ceremony of Ambulance to Somaliland through United Nations Population Fund
On 14th March 2016, His Excellency Tatsushi Terada, Ambassador of Japan to Somalia, attended the Handover Ceremony of Ambulance to the Ministry of Health in Somaliland hosted by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Hargeisa, Somaliland. The Government of Japan has supported UNFPA’s project on reduction of maternal and neomaternal mortality of Somali mother […]
Exclusive cooperation between the Embassy of France, the Alliance Française of Nairobi and a network of 12 ´Pilots Schools in Nairobi
On March, 30th 2016, 12 Kenyan High Schools gathered at the Residence of France in order to sign 10 tri-partite MoU[1], together with the Embassy of France in Kenya, represented by H.E. Rémi Maréchaux, Ambassador of France, and the Alliance Française of Nairobi, represented by its President, Mr. Sam Ngaruiya. The purpose of this multiple […]
Rising tax revenues are key to economic development in African countries
Tax revenues in African countries are rising as a proportion of national incomes, according to the inaugural edition of Revenue Statistics in Africa. The report, which contains internationally comparable revenue data for eight African countries, accounting for almost a quarter of Africa’s total GDP, will be discussed on Sunday 3 April in Addis Ababa during […]
President Michel Congratulates Baroness Scotland as she assumes office as Secretary General of Commonwealth and expresses thanks to outgoing Commonwealth head Mr Kamalesh Sharma
President James Michel has congratulated Baroness Patricia Scotland on behalf of the people and Government of the Republic of Seychelles as she assumes the Office of Secretary General of the Commonwealth today. In his message President Michel remarked that Baroness Scotland’s election in November last year was strong recognition of not only of not only her […]
Libya: EU adds 3 people to sanctions list
On 1 April 2016, the Council added three names to the list of people subject to EU restrictive measures against Libya. Agila Saleh, president of the Libyan Council of Deputies in the House of Representatives; Khalifa Ghweil, prime minister and defence minister of the internationally unrecognised General National Congress; and Nuri Abu Sahmain, president of […]
Round table on governance issues in the multi stakeholder responses to the Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa
MEDIA ADVISORY WHAT: Round table on governance issues in the multi stakeholder responses to the Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa The opening ceremony will be addressed by the Commissioner/Director of the African Union’s Department of Social Affairs; Director of APSP/IPSS; Director APN/SSRC; Head of Oxfam Delegation to the AU and Director, UNDP […]