The President of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, recently launched the Presidential Youth Advisory Group (PYAG) to provide insights and innovative solutions for job creation for Africa’s youth, as outlined in the Bank’s Jobs for Youth in Africa Strategy (JfYA). The Jobs for Youth in Africa initiative
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Barclays Africa Group Limited (BAGL) and China Development Bank (CDB) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed at strengthening cooperation and exploring opportunities to fund development projects in Africa. Given CDB’s focus on infrastructure finance for roads, railways and dams, Barclays Africa will leverage the MoU to unlock opportunities
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South Sudanese activists and opposition politicians say they welcome the decision by the United States, the United Kingdom and Norway to support a revitalization forum on South Sudan’s 2015 peace agreement, set to start later this month Addis Ababa. The “troika” -- as the three countries are known -- says
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The African Union’s plan to trim its Somalia peacekeeping force (AMISOM) will hurt the mission unless extra equipment is found to offset the troop decrease, the mission’s leader told Reuters on Monday. The force of 22,000 deployed a decade ago is set to lose 1,000 soldiers this year as part
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Uganda has adeqate stocks of anti-retroviral drugs to manage all the patients on treatment in the country, the ministry of health has said. The affirmation comes on the backdrop of reports that the country is facing a shortage of ARVs because more people were enrolled on the drugs following the
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MPs on Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee opposed to the lifting of Presidential Age Limits have refused to attend a meeting between the Committee and President Yoweri Museveni. The Committee is expected to interface with Museveni at State House Entebbe today regarding amending Article 102 (b) of the Constitution. If
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After a month of calling for entries, the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has received 172 submissions for consideration in this year’s Friends with Benefits TV show in which the winning contestant will walk away with 30 million shillings cash prize. The Show is a financial literacy edutainment initiative aimed
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Police in north western Tanzania have detained a woman after a video emerged showing her apparently sharing a celebratory kiss with another woman, BBC reports. In the video two women were apparently seen hugging and kissing each other while dancing together in a room with a number of people taking
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The leaders of South Sudan's Roman Catholic Church are calling on the pope to visit this war-torn nation. "We know his heart is in South Sudan," Samuel Abe, secretary general for the archdiocese of Juba told the Associated Press on Monday. "My wish is if he comes he can be
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Building solutions company, Hima Cement Limited has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with SOS Children’s Villages Uganda in a move aimed at improving household incomes in Harugongo Sub County in Fort Portal. Speaking during the launch of the partnership recently, Robert Bahenyangi, the Home Director at SOS Children’s Village in
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