Marrakech Meeting on Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) Rechanneling: Accelerating Development Finance Through Multilateral Development...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) (www.AfDB.org), Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Center for Global Development came together to co-host a high-level meeting on October 13th to discuss the rechanneling of...

Call for applications – YouthADAPT Challenge 2023: empowering Africa’s female tech innovators to tackle...

The Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program (https://apo-opa.info/3s7IvoI), a joint initiative of the African Development Bank (http://www.AfDB.org) and the Global Center on Adaptation, has launched a call for applications for the third edition of the YouthADAPT...

Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) supports ambitious development outcomes in Rwanda

RMB (www.RMB.co.za) acted as Joint Lead Manager alongside BK Capital Ltd, and the sole Sustainability Coordinator, for the Development Bank of Rwanda Plc’s (BRD) inaugural FRW150 billion Medium Term Note (MTN) Programme and maiden...

Celebrating Black Innovation: the Global Black Impact Summit (GBIS) 2023 to Connect the Global...

The healthcare sector has long stood as a vessel for innovation, driven by relentless efforts to prevent disease, promote health education and wellness while advancing global health security and resilience. This industry has been...

South Africa: National Assembly Passes the Railway Safety Bill and the Climate Change Bill

The National Assembly (NA) has, during its hybrid plenary this afternoon, passed the Climate Change Bill and the Railway Safety Bill, respectively. Introduced in Parliament in 2022, the Climate Change Bill is the first piece...

The Regional Office for Africa (AFRO) builds capacity of 12 member states to improve...

The Regional Office for Africa (AFRO), WHO Geneva in collaboration with WHO Namibia and the Ministry of Health and Social Services conducted a training on Global Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and Use surveillance system (GLASS)...

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Staff Reaches Staff-level Agreement with Senegal on First Reviews of...

The Senegalese authorities and IMF staff have reached a staff-level agreement on policies needed to complete the first reviews of the Senegal’s Extended Fund Facility (EFF) and Extended Credit Facility (ECF), combined with the...

Iran, Niger Foreign Ministers meet, discuss expansion of ties

Iran's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hossein Amirabdollahian, met with Bakary Sangare, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Niger, this afternoon Tuesday who had traveled to the Islamic Republic of Iran at the head of...

Oman: Administrative Undersecretary receives Algerian Ambassador

Khalid Almuslahi, Foreign Ministry Undersecretary for Administrative and Financial Affairs, received Dr Mohammed Ali Boughazi, Ambassador of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria to the Sultanate of Oman. The meeting discussed relations and cooperation between Oman and...

World Health Organization (WHO) and partners support Angola in the fight against polio

In the neighborhood of Caope Velha, in the municipality of Cacuaco in Luanda, Elisa António de Melo, 70, is carrying a baby girl in her arms. She is waiting with her two granddaughters and...