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Africa: World Economic Forum Calls For New Partnerships to Generate Private Capital For Fragile Communities
WEF, 24 May 2022
The World Economic Forum released today a paper that calls for new collaboration between humanitarian and development organizations, businesses, investors and entrepreneurs to make… Read more »
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South Africa: African Market Is Important for Sustainable Growth
SAnews.gov.za, 26 May 2022
With May celebrated as Africa Month, the Coega Development Corporation (CDC) has identified the rest of the African continent as an important market for sustainable growth. Read more »
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South Africa: President Ramaphosa Calls Business to Address Financing of Empowerment Transactions
SAnews.gov.za, 20 May 2022
President Cyril Ramaphosa has challenged the Black Business Council (BBC) to work together with government to address the financing of empowerment transactions in the constrained… Read more »
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Africa: 'United Africa Can Do More'
The Herald, 26 May 2022
Africa's successful response to challenges it faced in the past few years is testimony of what the continent can achieve if its people work together, the chairperson of the African… Read more »
WEF 2022 Wants Private Capital to Aid World's Fragile Communities
The World Economic Forum In Davos Switzerland has released a paper that calls for new collaboration between humanitarian and development organisations, businesses, investors and entrepreneurs to make a difference to the lives of the nearly one billion people living in fragile and conflict-affected settings worldwide.
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The Ethiopian government issued a declaration of humanitarian truce in the Tigray regional state effective from March 24, 2022. Addis Standard reported that the government Read more »
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Extreme poverty in West Africa rose by nearly 3% in 2021, another fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new report by the Economic Community of West African ... Read more »
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Education for girls and women remain a challenge in sub-Saharan Africa - home to the largest population of out-of-school girls. The Covid-19 pandemic has further ... Read more »
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The global pandemic has pushed more than 55 million Africans into extreme poverty and reversed two decades of hard work in poverty reduction on the continent. The Economic Re Read more »
