MEDIA ADVISORY ABUJA, Nigeria, March 21st, 2018,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is visiting Nigeria to see first-hand the progress the country is making on primary healthcare provision, polio eradication, nutrition and financial inclusion. He will be asking partners to prioritize supporting Nigeria’s
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Speaker Rebecca Kadaga has asked donors to tie aid to women-centred projects as a way of empowering local entrepreneurship. Kadaga was speaking during the 62nd session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women at the UN headquarters in New York. The Speaker said since the Word Bank
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The European Union and its free trade agreement took decades to establish. Africa is now hoping it can achieve the same in a fraction of the time. But with Nigeria pulling out, questions are being raised over just how achievable it really is. The vision is a free trade deal
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The African Union chairperson, President Paul Kagame, has said signing of the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (CFTA) is a symbol of progress towards unity of the continent. Kagame made the remarks yesterday at the CFTA Business summit, held under the theme ‘Leveraging the Power of Business to Drive
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A deadly outbreak linked to tainted food in South Africa is now threatening other African nations, with neighboring Namibia reporting a confirmed case that might be connected, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. In a statement, WHO said it has reached out to 16 countries to help with preparedness and
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Kenyan commercial banks have increased or introduced new loan approval fees to capitalise on the increased appetite for loans in the wake of a cap on interest rates, the Standard reports. A new study by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) found that commercial banks have shifted lending to the
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Climate change across East Africa could see more than 10 million people forced to move by 2050, according to a new World Bank report. The hardest hit could be the coastal regions of Kenya and Tanzania, but the report says that any areas suffering from sporadic and erratic rainfall, population
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An Egyptian court has banned ride hailing apps Uber and Careem, according to AFP news agency. The court has accepted a petition asking the government to stop licensing Uber and Careem activities in Egypt, AFP explains. Taxi drivers had complained that the drivers for both services did not need to
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Facebook shares took a big hit Monday, shaving about $37 billion off the value of the company. The stock tumbled about 7% Monday on news that data firm Cambridge Analytica, which had ties to Trump's campaign, reportedly accessed information from about 50 million Facebook users. This is the stock's biggest drop,
Read MoreKIGALI, Rwanda, March 20th, 2018 -/African Media Agency (AMA) /- The Next Einstein Forum (NEF), an initiative of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in partnership with the Robert Bosch Stiftung, today announces the top 16 finalists for its second edition of the Challenge of Invention to Innovation (Ci2i)
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