Nominations for the US $ 1 Million Prize must be received by Al-Sumait’s Prize Office no later than June 30, 2021 Al-Sumait Prize Health category, is open to individuals and organizations delivering pioneering and high-impact contributions to solving health challenges in Africa, with a special focus in the 2021 cycle on the utilization of effective […]
The Great Green Wall is part of Africa’s environmental defense system — a shield against the onslaughts of desertification and degradation By Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank Group. Your Excellency, President Emmanuel Macron, His Royal Highness Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, Your Excellency President Ghazouani of Mauritania, Excellencies, distinguished ladies
The Great Green Wall’s plan is to plant an 8,000 km long and 15 km wide mosaic of trees, grasslands, vegetation and plants across the Sahara and Sahel The Sahel region’s Great Green Wall Initiative received a major boost from the African Development Bank on Monday. During a forum hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron
The recent health crisis has revealed the resilient capacities of African agriculture More than 100 European and African actors have signed a charter of commitment to the development of the agro-pastoral sectors in Africa, particularly in the Sahel; The original initiative aims to resize and strengthen agricultural cooperation between Europe and Africa while ensuring the
Adding further pressure to this melting pot of cyberattacks is an expected rise, along with changes in strategy, in Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) Kaspersky experts expect growing economic turbulence along with the impact of COVID-19 to contribute to an increase in cybercrime across South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria this year. Growth in cybercrime “Even though
In the role of champion, Adesina will lead the mobilisation of political and economic support for the initiative African Development Bank President Akinwumi A. Adesina has been announced as a champion of Africa’s Great Green Wall (GGW) initiative. The appointment was made at a forum held in the margins of the One Planet Summit 20201
As Turkey’s market leader and one of the World’s Top-5 gen-set manufacturers, Aksa regards Africa as an essential source of growth to increase the sales power Aksa Power Generation is a part of Kazancı Holding who is the leading group in energy industry. Aksa is operating in manufacturing, technology development, marketing, and distribution fields in
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An exciting new robotics kit that is both highly versatile yet simple to use is being launched onto the market by ed-tech pioneers pi-top Already billed as one of the “coolest” new computer devices of last year by Microsoft’s Jeff Teper, the pi-top [4] (www.pi-top.com) Robotics Kit will be officially launched on Monday at the
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COVID-19: Confirmed cases now 100,087 in Nigeria The confirmed cases of Coronavirus pandemic have risen to 100,087 in Nigeria, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC. It stated: “On the 10th of January 2021, 1024 new confirmed cases and 8 deaths were recorded in Nigeria. Till date, 100087 cases have been confirmed,
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Dangote dips eight in Global Billionaires list Dangote Industries Limited ended trading on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, Friday, as the biggest loser leaving its owner, Aliko Dangote, with a drop in net worth by $900m, according to Bloomberg. According to Bloomberg Billionaires Index obtained by The Daily, www.thedaily-ng.com, Dangote’s wealth dropped from $18.4bn on
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