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..To Deal With Climate Change Yemisi Izuora World leaders on Thursday challenged African countries to take action to deal with climate change with a new economic model rooted in clean…
YemisiIzuora The UK Minister for Africa, Harriett Baldwin, has announced new funding so that more people and companies across Africa would have access to affordable, clean energy. This new funding…
Source:ACSS The United States needs higher level political engagement in Africa to counter China’s growing influence even as the military cuts back troop levels on the continent, U.S. Africa Command’s…
Yemisi Izuora Watchdogs has observed that more than half of the countries in sub-Saharan Africa have anti-homosexuality laws, although others have moved toward legal tolerance. Twenty-eight out of 49 countries…
Agency Report This year’s World Government Summit (WGS2019) agenda is focused on how governments can harness innovation and technology to solve universal challenges facing humanity. One of the Summit’s main areas…
The struggle to institutionalize legitimate and resilient democracies in Africa will be further shaped by the 2019 elections – with direct consequences for security. Africa is set to host two…
Yemisi Izuora The United Nations has announced plan to launch a three-year Humanitarian Response Strategy together with the Nigeria Regional Refugee Response Plan. The $983 million appeal will assist millions…
Yemisi Izuora/Agency Report The United Nations, UN is deeply worried over displacement of more than 30,000 Nigerians who are forced to flee the protracted war against Islamist insurgents in the…
Source: Guardian International Concerns over Chinese growth could spell problems for Africa and other parts of the developing world. Beijing funded an overseas investment boom in the past few decades…
Yemisi Izuora World Bank Group President, Jim Yong Kim, will resign effective from February 1, more than three years ahead of the expiration of his tenure in 2022, the bank…
