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The Mastercard Foundation and Kifiya Financial Technology Honour Over 100 Graduates of SAFEE Program, Specializing in AI and Data Science

The Mastercard Foundation and Kifiya Financial Technology Honour Over 100 Graduates of SAFEE Program, Specializing in AI and Data Science

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — Last week,  over 100 AI engineers and data scientists graduated from the Sustainable Access to Finance to Enable Entrepreneurship (SAFEE) program, a partnership between Kifiya Financial Technology and the Mastercard Foundation.  This will directly support Ethiopia’s transition toward uncollateralized digital lending, data-driven banking, and financial inclusion at scale. The SAFEE program […]

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Africa: The United Nations At Eighty - A Legacy of Aspirations and Limitations

Africa: The United Nations At Eighty – A Legacy of Aspirations and Limitations

If the United Nations were human, turning eighty this year, it might be pictured teetering on a frayed armchair, a lukewarm cup of tea forgotten beside it. Glasses perched on its nose, it would thumb through a worn copy of its own charter–pages creased from decades of selective use. Its pension, long squandered on noble

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Africa: USAID Funding Freeze Puts Millions of Women at Risk

Africa: USAID Funding Freeze Puts Millions of Women at Risk

Women and girls will suffer devastating consequences from the USAID funding freeze Thousands of aid programmes that support women are being threatened by the funding freeze, limiting the ability of frontline workers to serve their communities. In 1961, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was established to provide food aid, humanitarian aid, and economic development

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Africa: Rwanda's Syringe Manufacturing Facility to Boost Africa's Vaccination Initiatives

Africa: Rwanda’s Syringe Manufacturing Facility to Boost Africa’s Vaccination Initiatives

Health minister Dr Sabin Nsanzimana on Tuesday, April 1, officiated the launch of TKMD Rwanda’s auto-disable syringe manufacturing facility in Rwamagana District. According to the Ministry of Health, established in partnership with Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization pre-qualified facility produces up to one million syringes daily. TKMD Rwanda, a subsidiary of Chinese company Anhui

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Africa: UN Staff Put On Alert - As U.S. Visa Holders Face Threats and Deportation

Africa: UN Staff Put On Alert – As U.S. Visa Holders Face Threats and Deportation

United Nations — The Trump administration’s ground-rules are dangerously clear–and devastating. If you are a pro-Palestinian demonstrator, denouncing Israeli atrocities in Gaza, you are either a supporter of the “terrorist organization” Hamas or you are described as anti-Semitic veering on hate crimes liable for prosecution. The US is planning to cancel over 300 visas and

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Africa: A New Covid Variant Is On the Rise. Here's What to Know About LP.8.1

Africa: A New Covid Variant Is On the Rise. Here’s What to Know About LP.8.1

More than five years since COVID was declared a pandemic, we’re still facing the regular emergence of new variants of the virus, SARS-CoV-2. The latest variant on the rise is LP.8.1. It’s increasing in Australia, making up close to one in five COVID cases in New South Wales. Elsewhere it’s become even more dominant, comprising

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Africa: Announcement of Massad Boulos as Senior Advisor for Africa 

Africa: Announcement of Massad Boulos as Senior Advisor for Africa 

Office of the SpokespersonApril 1, 2025 The Department of State is pleased to announce the appointment of Massad Boulos as Senior Advisor for Africa. Senior Advisor Boulos also serves as Senior Advisor to the President on Arab and Middle Eastern Affairs.  Senior Advisor Boulos and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Corina Sanders

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Africa: UN-Backed Forum Seeks to Boost Resilience of World's Least Developed Countries

Africa: UN-Backed Forum Seeks to Boost Resilience of World’s Least Developed Countries

Policymakers, researchers, the private sector and other stakeholders are meeting in Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, over the next three days to chart a path toward sustainable development and resilience for the world’s Least Developed Countries (LDCs). The third edition of the LDC Future Forum, which opened on Monday, focusses on how these 44 nations can better

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