The World Bank said on Wednesday that its experiences in financing climate change investment projects over the last decade have shown that these are the best ways African countries can benefit and contribute to slowing global warming.
Janamitra Devan, the new Vice President of Financial and Private Sector Development of the World Bank and IFC, has just completed a two-day visit to Rwanda.
United Nations Volunteers (UNV) in Liberia, over the week-end joined their Liberian counterparts to celebrate International Volunteer Day (IVD) 2009. Members of the new Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL), students, women and youth groups, and other volunteer organizations in Liberia, paraded principal streets in Monrovia in a walk for peace and the environment. Other volunteers carried out a beach ...
President Kibaki will lead a strong 65- man Kenyan delegation to the ongoing climate change summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, the Nation has established.
A month-long investigation into an alleged bribery scandal between the Government of Senegal and one of the International Monetary Fund (IMF's) expatriate, has exonerated the latter.
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has said that Information and Communications Technology (ICT) must be seen as being part of the solution on climate change, especially at the UnitedNations (UN) organized global conference on the subject in COP15 delegates to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, which began on Monday.
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has completed the fifth review under the three-year Policy Support Instrument (PSI) and the first review under the one-year Exogenous Shocks Facility (ESF). The completion of the first review under the ESF makes available a disbursement of SDR 14.2 million (about 22.6 US million dollars). The Board's decision was taken on a lapse of time ...
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has completed the fifth review of the Central African Republic’s economic performance under a program supported by the arrangement under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) for an amount equivalent to SDR 69.62 million (about US$112.21 million). Completion of the review enables the disbursement of an amount equivalent ...
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed on December 7 the seventh review under the Policy Support Instrument (PSI) for Cape Verde. The PSI for Cape Verde was approved on July 31, 2006 (see Press Release No. 06/172) and was extended by one year on June 19, 2009 (See Press release No. 09/222).
The Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (Libya) began participating in the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF’s) General Data Dissemination System (GDDS) on December 7, 2009 marking a major step forward in the development of its statistical system. Comprehensive information on Libyan statistical production and dissemination practices now appears on the IMF’s ...
The outcome of the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, will have reverberations for the future of humanity and the planet, says United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
Jaime Byron the executive chairman of FIFA's accommodation provider MATCH, said he was far more "comfortable" now than he had been before with the country's accommodation inventory.
Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma has lauded her department for fast-tracking visa applications and exemptions for accredited FIFA delegates during the FIFA 2010 World Cup Final Draw.
According to the newly released State of World Population 2009 report from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), a slowing of population growth could help ease the impacts of climate change.
THE ruling Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) in Abia State has challenged the PDP over its (PDP) boast that it would sack Governor Theodore Orji's government through the ballot box in 2011, saying it will be an uphill task for the PDP to accomplish.
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) last week came up with a report that developing countries risk missing out on the benefits of information technology because of their lack of broadband infrastructure.
A week-long sports journalists training programme opened at the Senegalese capital Dakar over the weekend with the participation of sports writers from Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Liberia, Sao Tome, The Gambia and hosts Senegal.
NAMIBIA'S refusal to conclude an interim economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU) until the western bloc has addressed all the country's concerns is "commendable", trade law analyst Enga Kameni has said.
In the run-up to the African Union (AU) sponsored Special Summit on Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced People in Africa held in Kampala last month, Uganda's Chief of Defence Forces, Gen. Aronda Nyakairima, was quoted by The Observer to have declared that confining non-combatants to camps in conflict zones was "an effective military tool for counter-insurgency."
THE national malnutrition level for children under five years of age continues to increase owing to poverty, a senior Government official has said.
Association of Accountancy Bodies of West Africa (ABWA), the umbrella body for accounting professional bodies in the West Africa sub-region is to soon commence tracking exercise to ascertain the level of compliances with international financial reporting standard by member-institutes.
The attention of the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority has been drawn to a story captioned "World Bank Projects Collapse in Lagos" in This Day Newspaper of Monday, November 23, 2009.
A delegation led by the Assistant Secretary-General of UN Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Edmond Mulet, arrived today in El Fasher, North Darfur, in a follow-up to his visit two years ago, when the African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) was first established.
The ongoing UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen is an important global event that will be a turning point in the fight to prevent climate disaster.
President Paul Kagame yesterday met Janamitra Devan, the Vice President of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and discussed how the institution can enhance investment and private sector development in the country.
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