• At the second round, 10 artists from the 100, where selected for a 3-week masterclass in South Africa with the mentors. (wikipedia.org)
  • Based on the experience in South Africa, the Biden administration's top medical adviser says "this thing will peak after a period of a few weeks and turn around. (reason.com)
  • Does Classical Liberalism Have a Chance in South Africa? (reason.com)
  • Zambia sees Zimbabwe's economic missteps as South Africa looks to repeat them. (reason.com)
  • Herman Mashaba is something new in South Africa. (reason.com)
  • Why Does South Africa Need Armed Forces? (reason.com)
  • In South Africa, the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership enables individuals and organisations to respond to critical economic, societal and environmental challenges and opportunities, running executive education programmes for sustainability managers and senior executives. (cam.ac.uk)
  • African Parks is a non-governmental organization (NGO) focused on conservation, established in 2000 and headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa . (wikipedia.org)
  • Companies such as the United African Company and United Trading Company in West Africa, the Imperial British East Africa Company, and the British South Africa Company were formed by businesspersons who were interested only in exploiting and plundering the rich natural resources of the territories of Africa that they were allowed to govern. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for South Africa published between 1 August 2022 - 31 July 2023 which are tracked by the Nature Index. (nature.com)
  • Collaboration is determined by the combined fractional count (Share) of South Africa and the collaborating country. (nature.com)
  • From festivals and events to the best time for safaris and whale-watching, this seasonal guide will help you pick the best time to visit South Africa. (lonelyplanet.com)
  • South Africa is home to some of the most stunning landscapes on the planet - it's the perfect road-trip country. (lonelyplanet.com)
  • From safety tips to guidance on local etiquette, here are things every traveler should know before going to South Africa. (lonelyplanet.com)
  • South Africa has plenty to offer families, from safari experiences to resort stays. (lonelyplanet.com)
  • South Africa is twice the size of Texas, which can make getting around a little tricky. (lonelyplanet.com)
  • From safari to wine tasting, experience the best of South Africa with these top things to do. (lonelyplanet.com)
  • South Africa will cater to you no matter what kind of traveler you are. (lonelyplanet.com)
  • In honor of Nelson Mandela International Day on July 18, follow his legacy throughout South Africa. (lonelyplanet.com)
  • South Africa boasts of many multi-day hiking trails, and walkers can set off on plenty of amazing day hikes as well. (lonelyplanet.com)
  • In South Africa, Riffel is most popularly known as the face of local seasoning company Robertsons Spices. (cnn.com)
  • Holmes, who is based in Johannesburg, South Africa, is helping provide back-end services for Bharti Airtel, the Indian mobile operator that, along with several other big multinational carriers, is jostling for a position in the booming African mobile-phone market. (technologyreview.com)
  • A mountain on a molehill: Is the illicit trade in cigarettes undermining tobacco control policy in South Africa? (who.int)
  • Case studies in illicit tobacco trade: South Africa. (who.int)
  • As of January 2021, there were about 28,038 registered .africa domains from 70 accredited registrars. (wikipedia.org)
  • It was a continuation of a trajectory set in 2021, a year that saw four successful coups in Africa (in Chad, Guinea, Mali, and Sudan). (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The European External Action Service (EEAS) and the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) have organised an EU-UNODC Strategic Dialogue on Africa on 2 December 2021. (unodc.org)
  • In 2021, approximately 800 combined cases were reported to the WHO, with over 90% caused by T. b. gambiense (see WHO: Human African trypanosomiasis ). (msdmanuals.com)
  • Over 500 Scholars from the African continent will be enrolled in the programme between 2023 and 2030 to undertake a wide range of Masters' courses. (cam.ac.uk)
  • In 2023 the University undertook a mapping of research ties with sub-Saharan Africa. (cam.ac.uk)
  • African Parks manages 22 protected areas in 12 countries as of May 2023, and employs more than 1,100 rangers. (wikipedia.org)
  • Times: As the pandemic took hold, hundreds of Westerners fled to east Africa. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • The Imperial British East Africa Company, founded in 1888, colonized Kenya for Britain, ruling there until 1893. (encyclopedia.com)
  • When #UgandaDecides and when it truly does so, then East Africa Community will be ready for an economic bloc. (goodreads.com)
  • BASF East Africa Ltd, the regional sales hub for the East African market, was established in Kenya in 2011 and is responsible for 15 countries. (basf.com)
  • Many motorists in East Africa face the challenge of engine damage as a result of vehicle overheating. (basf.com)
  • Newcastle University and Makerere University in Uganda are working with visual arts organisations in East Africa and the UK. (ncl.ac.uk)
  • State repression and mass pro-democracy protests were other big themes throughout 2022 as ordinary Africans felt the economic ripple effects of a war far away in Europe and as global powers sought to woo their nations' leaders. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Here are five of Africa Brief's biggest-and, in some cases, underreported-stories of 2022. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The risk of infection is highest in the rainforests of West and Central Africa and during the rainy season, when the deerfly (or mango fly or mangrove fly, as they are commonly known) are most prevalent. (medscape.com)
  • emPawaa Africa was founded in November 2018 and began operation in 2019 as a talent incubation initiative to nurture and support up-and-coming artists in Africa. (wikipedia.org)
  • Popular You tuber and Indie filmmaker Korty EO used to work for at emPawa Africa before quitting to start her YouTube channel In 2019, YouTube partnered with emPawa, which will provide support to 10 emerging Nigerian artists, build their careers and increase their fan base. (wikipedia.org)
  • Bheki Ntshalitshali, General Secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) shares his views on this challenge during the Symposium on the Future of Work organised in Geneva from 7 to 8 October 2019. (ilo.org)
  • On 30 July 2020, Mr Eazi launched African Music Fund in partnership with emPawa Africa, to finance established and up-and-coming creatives of Africa. (wikipedia.org)
  • African Parks employs more than 1,100 rangers, as of 2020. (wikipedia.org)
  • The trip marks the first visit of a U.S. Africa Command delegation to the DRC since the signing of the U.S. and DRC Memorandum of Understanding in October 2020. (globalsecurity.org)
  • The .africa domain became available to the general public on 4 July 2017. (wikipedia.org)
  • africa was launched at the African Union Commission in 2017. (wikipedia.org)
  • The .africa domain name registration was made available to the public in July 2017. (wikipedia.org)
  • Prince Harry was appointed African Parks' president in late 2017. (wikipedia.org)
  • [25] Prince Harry , who previously assisted with African Parks' 2016-2017 elephant translocation project in Malawi, [5] was named president in December 2017. (wikipedia.org)
  • The .africa domains are intended to showcase their brand and commitment to the African continent, establishing a home for Africa-specific products and services, expanding a brand's regional influence and acquiring online real-estate. (wikipedia.org)
  • africa Domain Name - One Continent. (wikipedia.org)
  • UNODC has a large team across the African continent. (unodc.org)
  • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - If you listen to the African leaders addressing the U.N. General Assembly this year, the message is emphatic and unanimous: The continent is done being a victim of a post-World War II order. (ap.org)
  • Africa Talent aims to create jobs on the African continent and support economic and skills development by exposing talent to global work opportunities through the Deloitte Network. (deloitte.com)
  • Africa Talent aims to tap into Africa's youthful and growing population who are looking for global exposure without having to leave the continent. (deloitte.com)
  • The aim of Africa talent is to retain talent within the African continent, serving clients from the comfort of their own home while gaining international experience and addressing pressing client problems of our time. (deloitte.com)
  • African countries largely abstained from United Nations Security Council votes seeking to adopt a position of neutrality in the war, but the reaction and tone of the debates hit a raw nerve across the continent. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The online event, co-chaired by EEAS Managing Director for Africa, Rita Laranjinha, and UNODC Director for Operations, Miwa Kato, gathered EU and UNODC representatives from Headquarters and across the African continent. (unodc.org)
  • The UNODC Vision was developed with and brought together African countries, donors including the EU, civil society organizations and other stakeholders to spark renewed momentum to address drugs, crime, corruption and terrorism on the continent. (unodc.org)
  • UNODC and the EU work closely together across all UNODC's mandate areas and are long-standing partners for cooperation on the African continent. (unodc.org)
  • The Africa University Fund is equipping the next generation of Africans to lead and transform a beloved continent. (umc.org)
  • The desire of the university's founders was to nurture an institution that would be deeply rooted in Africa-drawing its agenda and priorities from the challenges of African communities and combining the social wisdom and indigenous know-how of African people with new knowledge to aid development and improve quality of life on the continent. (umc.org)
  • Together we have the opportunity to impact the continent of Africa by equipping her leaders. (umc.org)
  • Despite recent disparaging Western commentary on high African birth rates, fertility rates on the continent are normal when viewed in. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • Conservation on the continent will only be sustainable with local communities and African leadership at the helm. (nature.org)
  • But while the narrative of "Africa rising" seems to have dominated the news, violence and conflict continue to affect many countries on the continent. (worldbank.org)
  • Some aid groups have expressed concern that the creation of a new U.S. military command for Africa, AFRICOM, could result in a more military approach in U.S. policy toward the continent. (voanews.com)
  • 2015-08-01T21:03:23-04:00 https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvNjNmXC8yMDE1MDgwMTIxMDgxMTAwMl9oZC5qcGciLCJlZGl0cyI6eyJyZXNpemUiOnsiZml0IjoiY292ZXIiLCJoZWlnaHQiOjUwNn19fQ== Aubrey Hruby and Jake Bright talked about their book The Next Africa: An Emerging Continent Becomes a Global Powerhouse , in which they discuss Africa's progress in transforming the continent into a global powerhouse, including the events, trends, and people reshaping Africa's relationship to the world. (c-span.org)
  • Aubrey Hruby and Jake Bright talked about their book The Next Africa: An Emerging Continent Becomes a Global Powerhouse , in which they discuss Africa's progress in transforming the continent into a global powerhouse, including the events, trends, and people reshaping Africa's relationship to the world. (c-span.org)
  • Among the general public and the researchers, Africa has been described as a continent in permanent poverty with weak economic growth. (lu.se)
  • Economic historians have long opposed the perception of Africa as a historically speaking economically stagnant continent. (lu.se)
  • Second, Africa is undergoing a slow transformation from a sparsely populated continent to one with a relatively high population growth. (lu.se)
  • Nevertheless, Africa is the continent most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. (lu.se)
  • The countries of eastern and southern Africa host a vast variety and abundance of the world's biological and natural resources, including seven of the world's biodiversity hotspots. (iucn.org)
  • Recognizing the interdependency of the three pillars of sustainable development - social, economic and environmental, IUCN's work in Eastern and Southern Africa underscores the fact that sustainable economic development depends on sound environmental management in line with IUCN's Global Programme goals. (iucn.org)
  • Across the 24 countries - From the Horn of Africa to the Cape and including the Western Indian Ocean Islands, the region contains several centres of endemism where species of birds, mammals and plans reside nowhere else in the world. (iucn.org)
  • A prominent South African cardinal said Saturday that the 2018 Synod of Bishops on young people, the faith, and vocational. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • In Kenya for example, we are improving disease surveillance, early symptom detection and tracking the spread of the disease, which Amref already does in several African countries including Tanzania. (guidestar.org)
  • Text-message-based mobile payments, common in Kenya and other parts of Africa, are one foundation of mobile office and commercial work. (technologyreview.com)
  • While low-end handsets make up most of the African market today, "smart phones," especially those using the Android operating system, are growing in popularity, especially with the recent introduction of lower-cost models like the Ideos, from the Chinese maker Huawei, which was recently selling in Kenya for $80. (technologyreview.com)
  • Lung Health Africa - where the goal is to promote lung health in Africa. (cam.ac.uk)
  • Amref Health Africa, Inc. (guidestar.org)
  • Amref Health Africa has successfully stopped the outbreak of diseases such as Ebola and cholera. (guidestar.org)
  • Legal name of organization: Amref Health Africa Inc. (guidestar.org)
  • Through support from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and our donors, Amref Health Africa is strengthening the national laboratory system of South Sudan to provide accurate and timely diagnoses and to be able to provide HIV prevention and treatment services to control the epidemic in South Sudan. (guidestar.org)
  • To do this, Amref Health Africa is strengthening the lab systems of South Sudan by training both new and existing lab workers to provide higher quality services that support HIV care and treatment. (guidestar.org)
  • Response to the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa overwhelmed the healthcare systems of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, reducing access to health services for diagnosis and treatment for the major diseases that are endemic to the region: malaria, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis. (cdc.gov)
  • The 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa debilitated the healthcare systems of affected countries, hampering diagnosis and treatment for endemic diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis (TB) ( 1 , 2 ). (cdc.gov)
  • The Ebola outbreak in West Africa also served as a strong reminder of the vulnerability of some countries when faced with a shock of this nature. (worldbank.org)
  • Making the decision to volunteer in an Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU) in West Africa shows a lot of courage and takes support from friends, loved ones, and other healthcare workers. (cdc.gov)
  • This rapid increase contrasts starkly with the Middle East and North Africa, where increases in the size of this cohort have steadied, and even with East Asia, where numbers are dominated by China and the size of this cohort is expected to fall from 350 million in 2010 to 225 million by 2050 (World Bank 2014). (worldbank.org)
  • Since 2002, a total of 560 technical cooperation programmes and projects have been approved for the African region, with a total budget of US$545.2 million. (ilo.org)
  • In 2016, Kamala Harris became the first African American to be elected a U.S. senator from California . (wikipedia.org)
  • This work was done in collaboration between Cambridge-Africa , Cambridge Global Challenges and the Strategic Partnerships Office . (cam.ac.uk)
  • The organization manages national parks and protected areas throughout Africa, in collaboration with governments and surrounding communities. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Johannesburg-based nonprofit conservation organization African Parks manages national parks and protected areas throughout Africa, in collaboration with governments and surrounding communities. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cambridge-Africa , founded in 2008, is a University programme that supports African researchers and promotes mutually beneficial collaborations and equitable partnerships between African institutions and Cambridge. (cam.ac.uk)
  • They manage the Cambridge-Africa Alborada Research Fund , which provides catalyst funding for collaborations and supports training activities between researchers in Africa and Cambridge. (cam.ac.uk)
  • Eventually the emerging south-south relations between Africa, Asia and Latin America could open up for new economic collaborations. (lu.se)
  • Realizing Africa's importance to U.S. global priorities, the Biden administration launched a new Africa policy document that was heavy on the so-called harmful activities of China and Russia before employing a strategy among U.S. diplomats of not mentioning China and Russia at all in a campaign to woo African nations amid strong competition from Turkey , Russia, China, Japan, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • first through several national offices in West Africa, then a Regional Office for Central Africa (BRAC) in 1995, and a Regional Office for West Africa (BRAO) in 1997. (iucn.org)
  • If you look at the distribution of growth rates across Africa between 1995 and 2013, there are a few countries with negative [growth] rates, including Sudan, South Sudan and the Central African Republic - and, not surprisingly, these are all countries which have experienced conflict in recent years," Ferreira adds. (worldbank.org)
  • In 1995, a total of 2192 polio cases were reported from the 46 countries in the African Region of WHO. (cdc.gov)
  • Sponsoring Organisation is the ZA Central Registry trading as Registry.Africa. (wikipedia.org)
  • News of Ethiopia's victory declaration came hours after the United Nations announced that Eritrean President Issaias Afeworki had accepted an Organisation of African Unity (OAU) peace plan which implies Eritrean withdrawal from the contested western Badme zone. (bbc.co.uk)
  • In addition, as a part of the Cambridge-Africa Programme, the University actively partners with African institutions to share skills and create new knowledge. (cam.ac.uk)
  • The African Research Universities Alliance ( ARUA ) and N8 , the eight most research-intensive Universities in the North of England, including Newcastle, have implemented a three-year programme. (ncl.ac.uk)
  • The .africa initiative is fully endorsed by the African Union Commission. (wikipedia.org)
  • Through this initiative, Africa Talent can create local employment through a myriad of hybrid and remote working technologies and platforms. (deloitte.com)
  • They met about 20 minutes yesterday [Tuesday] afternoon in the secretary's office, discussed, as I shared with you, Africa, everything from AFRICOM to the president's AIDS initiative,' he said. (voanews.com)
  • Although great strides have been made towards poverty reduction in Africa, the region hosts half of the world's extreme poor. (worldbank.org)
  • Yet, the world's extreme poor will be increasingly concentrated in Africa: 389 million people in Africa were still living on less than US$1.90 a day in 2013, more than in all other regions combined (World Bank 2016a). (worldbank.org)
  • By the turn of this century, one-fifth of the world's population will live in Africa. (umc.org)
  • The long-ruling African National Congress is on its way to losing power, but could go with the "Zimbabwe option. (reason.com)
  • From Algeria to Zimbabwe and countries in between, a weekly roundup of essential news and analysis from Africa. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Students study in one of the modern science labs at United Methodist-related Africa University in Mutare, Zimbabwe. (umc.org)
  • Additionally, the Centre of African Studies (established in 1965) acts as a hub for graduate- and faculty-level interdisciplinary research. (cam.ac.uk)
  • Hundreds of students from Africa, from more than 20 different countries, study at Cambridge every academic year. (cam.ac.uk)
  • At least 300 awards have been made, to enable Cambridge researchers to engage with African colleagues from 33 African countries. (cam.ac.uk)
  • African countries' refusal to pick a side in the Russia-Ukraine war upset the established world order and brought into focus the continent's strategic value to global powers as a major natural resource supplier. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The pressure on African countries to pick a side caused further divisions between Africa and the United States and Europe. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • ABDELHAK SENNA/AFP/Getty Images The BBC has a pair of interesting stories today about an awful practice in Nigeria and other African countries where conmen pose as sports agents and dupe young, would-be soccer players out of thousands of dollars. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The BBC has a pair of interesting stories today about an awful practice in Nigeria and other African countries where conmen pose as sports agents and dupe young, would-be soccer players out of thousands of dollars. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Trafficking in African youths has become a growing concern for soccer's governing body, Fifa, as middlemen can bypass work permit restrictions and bring teenage Africans into European countries, where they are then sold to clubs for large sums of money, or simply discarded on the streets of major European cities. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Three decades ago, when African bishops of The United Methodist Church surveyed the emerging socio-economic and political needs in their countries, they called on the church to invest in higher education in Africa. (umc.org)
  • The EIARC also discussed the challenges facing the teacher trade union movement in Africa, including violations of human and trade union rights in several countries, and falling membership. (ei-ie.org)
  • We're also proud to welcome students and staff from 33 countries in Africa. (ncl.ac.uk)
  • The shifts in the nature and geographical distribution of conflict across Africa make identifying both the causes of conflict and the ways to help countries avoid and end these conflicts, ever more challenging. (worldbank.org)
  • A U.S. Africa Command delegation visited the Democratic Republic of the Congo to demonstrate support for the Congolese commitment to enhancing military professionalism and welcome the countries' re-established security cooperation relationship, Jan. 27-30. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Countries in Africa are no strangers to major disease outbreaks that can result in illness and death of millions of people. (cdc.gov)
  • This will bring the total number of countries participating to 41 of the 46 countries in the African Region. (cdc.gov)
  • Several African countries are among the international growth-leading economies, foreign direct investments are increasing significantly, and we read about new business opportunities in the finance pages in the papers. (lu.se)
  • Most African countries contribute only marginally to the increase of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, in the atmosphere. (lu.se)
  • The meeting took place in the context of the annual meeting of Senior Officials and the launch of UNODC's Strategic Vision for Africa 2030 earlier this year. (unodc.org)
  • Latest estimates suggest that the share of the African population in extreme poverty declined from 57 percent in 1990 to 41 percent in 2013 (Beegle et al. (worldbank.org)
  • Poverty reduction in Africa also lags other regions: East Asia and South Asia started out with similar poverty rates in the 1990s, but their poverty rates are much lower today at 4 percent and 15 percent respectively (Beegle et al. (worldbank.org)
  • Ending global poverty therefore requires urgent action in Africa and a social inclusion lens will be indispensable towards this: It takes poverty analysis beyond identifying correlates to uncovering its underlying causes, asking questions such as why certain groups are overrepresented among the poor and why some people lack access to education, health or other services. (worldbank.org)
  • Teaching at Africa University emphasizes the practical application of knowledge to alleviate poverty, build peace and stability and drive development. (umc.org)
  • Africa continues to grapple with enormous challenges such as widespread poverty, the need for education and healthcare, underdeveloped infrastructure, low-producing agriculture, uncontrolled urbanisation and corruption. (lu.se)
  • Created as a result of the regionalization and decentralization process initiated by the IUCN Secretariat in 2006, PACO was born from the merger of the Central Africa and West Africa programs. (iucn.org)
  • Technical cooperation programmes and projects implemented are one of the main means of action to support constituents in promoting decent work in the African region and to give effect to the Decent Work Agenda in Africa 2007-15. (ilo.org)
  • As of December 2011, there were 205 active technical cooperation projects being managed by the ILO in the African region. (ilo.org)
  • Rita Laranjinha, Director for Africa of the EEAS, underlined that multilateralism was at the heart of EU policy, and expressed the importance of EU-UNODC cooperation in the region, given the complex nature of the ever-evolving threats in Africa. (unodc.org)
  • Eradicating polio from Africa remains one of the major challenges to global eradication by the target date. (cdc.gov)
  • This chapter discusses some of the challenges of differences in approaches to the African past by economists and historians, and also some new empirical evidence that changes some of the dominant narratives of economic development in Africa. (lu.se)
  • According to Registry Africa, 78% of African governments support the TLD. (wikipedia.org)
  • Amid the backlash, African governments were forced to charter planes to evacuate their citizens. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Malaria, HIV/AIDS, and TB are 3 of the most prevalent infectious diseases in West Africa (5). (cdc.gov)
  • In Africa and beyond, it was inevitable that the economic toll of the pandemic would continue to have a lingering effect on freedom and democratic principles. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • A surprising victim of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the African rhino. (lonelyplanet.com)
  • emPawa Africa (pronounced emPower Africa), headquartered in Lagos, is an African talent incubation enterprise, known for nurturing and supporting up-and-coming artistes. (wikipedia.org)
  • Make a difference today by giving to the Africa University Fund. (umc.org)
  • Ademola Ajabe has been selected as TNC's Africa Regional Managing Director. (nature.org)
  • They are the latest cholera deaths in Africa after at least 12 nations record outbreaks. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • Most travelers to Africa know to protect themselves from malaria. (cdc.gov)
  • But malaria is far from the only mosquito-borne disease in Africa. (cdc.gov)
  • Recent studies have revealed that dengue, a disease that is well recognized in Asia and the Americas, may be commonly misdiagnosed as malaria in Africa. (cdc.gov)
  • The .africa namespace is open to individuals, businesses and organizations around the world. (wikipedia.org)
  • By 2050, Africa will have 362 million people aged between 15 and 24 (World Bank 2014). (worldbank.org)
  • While the challenge of protecting children online is one faced throughout the world, Church leaders from Asia and Africa said. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • Organized jointly by the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) and the World Bank's Office of the Chief Economist for the Africa Region, the conference focused on the causes and impacts of conflict and fragility in sub-Saharan Africa. (worldbank.org)
  • Consider this: On the most recent list of fragile situations around the world, just over half are in sub-Saharan Africa. (worldbank.org)
  • As we scale up our operational work in fragile states, a better understanding of the causes and impacts of conflict and fragility can help to prevent some of the deadly conflicts at the community level," said Makhtar Diop, the World Bank Vice President of the Africa Region, who delivered the conference's opening remarks . (worldbank.org)
  • And make this conference even more timely," said Francisco Ferreira, the World Bank Chief Economist for the Africa Region. (worldbank.org)
  • Bono, lead singer of the rock group U2, has become a prominent activist for African causes in recent years, and has met with numerous world leaders, including President Bush. (voanews.com)
  • To stop the spread of COVID-19 in Africa, Amref is working closely with African Ministries of Health, the African Centres of Disease Control, and the World Health Organization to train frontline health workers with training on COVID-19, scale up testing, and expand community awareness on preventing the spread of the disease. (guidestar.org)
  • Africa contains some of the poorest parts of the world. (technologyreview.com)
  • Africa could be the future in a world where the European and American economies are weakened and China's extreme growth has slowed down. (lu.se)
  • The United States District Court, Central District of California in a ruling granted DCA Trust an Interim Relief for DotConnectAfrica and ordered ICANN to hold the delegation the .AFRICA top-level domain to ZACR. (wikipedia.org)
  • The final delegation of the .africa Top Level Domain went to Registry Africa Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of the ZACR. (wikipedia.org)
  • I'm pleased to welcome this delegation from U.S. Africa Command for discussions with Congolese leaders on how a stronger defense partnership can help the DRC achieve its true potential, for the benefit of the Congolese and American people. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Africa Talent is therefore designed to position Africa's skilled pool talent to address Europe's talent shortages - creating a win-win situation for both regions and it professionals. (deloitte.com)
  • This is why it's so crucial that Africa's greatest needs-sustainable agriculture, disease prevention, ethical leadership and governance, and more-continue to be impacted by Africa University's 4000+ graduates. (umc.org)
  • Amref Health Africa's mission is to improve the health of people in Africa by partnering with and empowering communities, and strengthening health systems. (guidestar.org)
  • For example, the British chose the Arab minority to lord it over the majority Africans in the Sudan and favored the Fulani in Nigeria. (encyclopedia.com)
  • And who knows how it got to or independently evolved in the Philippines - a good 7,000 miles and really big ocean away from its Zaire, Sudan, Cote D'Ivoire, and Bundibugyo brethren in Africa. (cdc.gov)
  • During the plenary assembly celebrating its golden jubilee, the leadership organization for bishops' conferences in Africa elected Cardinal Philippe Ouédraogo. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • I'll be capitalizing on all that I've learned since that winter day, and working to ensure that the entire organization benefits from all that we've achieved together toward our vision of a wild and prosperous Africa. (nature.org)
  • In Africa, it's in the unsexy technology spaces that you find most of the successful entrepreneurs," says Erik Hersman, cofounder of Ushahidi , the mobile crisis and event-mapping platform and a developer of iHub , an organization that brings together mobile entrepreneurs and investors in Nairobi. (technologyreview.com)
  • Cape Town occupies a particularly rich space for South African cuisine. (cnn.com)
  • The coordinator for African partnerships is Maja Wallberg . (cam.ac.uk)
  • African office workers and other entrepreneurs have managed to take relatively simple mobile-phone technologies and use them to build remarkably robust commercial systems. (technologyreview.com)
  • Others working with African mobile business owners say those entrepreneurs' innovations should be closely heeded by companies trying to do business there. (technologyreview.com)
  • The Africa Forest Carbon Catalyst uses an 'incubator'-style approach to accelerate natural climate solutions that protect and restore some of the planet's most vulnerable forest in Africa. (nature.org)
  • Conflict and fragility exact a costly toll on the economies of Africa. (worldbank.org)
  • First of all, there are fewer political obstacles to investing in capital inflows in the more productive sectors, thereby diversifying the African economies. (lu.se)
  • Finally, another new feature is the growing African middle class which is an endogenous engine of growth in some economies. (lu.se)
  • Africa Talent is a Deloitte division that recruits both top talent with experience and young graduates who are looking for experience. (deloitte.com)
  • Africa Talent is aimed at a broad range of professionals, including those with consulting or advisory experience, as well as graduates. (deloitte.com)
  • The DRC and U.S. Africa Command have a history of partnership through Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) participation in U.S.-led military exercises, where emphasis is placed on the value of professional military forces, best practices in military justice, and respect for human rights. (globalsecurity.org)