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The 8th Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) Week sought to address the continent’s $100 billion annual infrastructure financing deficit. From November 25 to 29, African infrastructure stakeholders gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the continent’s premier infrastructure event, the 8th Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) Week.…

Nigeria Health Watch’s 10th Future of Health Conference under the theme: “From Evidence to Action: Building Resilience at the Climate-Health Nexus,” focused on the intersection of climate change and public health, emphasizing the urgent need for actionable policies to mitigate the health impacts of climate change. The twenty-eighth Conference of…

Ahead of the 29th United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP29) talks in Baku, Azerbaijan in November 2024 and in the build-up to the African Group of Negotiators (AGN) meeting in Nairobi held on August 14–16, 2024, African climate finance practitioners met in Mombasa, Kenya, to deliberate on…

Ahead of the United Nations Summit of the Future (SOTF), which seeks to patch up the increasingly eroding trust in multilateral cooperation’s capacity to effectively tackle current and future global challenges, the 69th UN Civil Society Conference (2024 UNCSC) in Support of the SOTF took place on May 9-10 in…

The African Minerals Development Centre (AMDC) recently hosted the East and Southern Africa Regional Consultative Workshop for a Continental Artisanal and Smale-Scale Mining (ASM) Strategy in collaboration with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the ACP-EU Minerals Development Programme , in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Panelists speaking at the maiden…

The New Faces New Voices Nigeria (NFNV-NIGERIA), with support from United Parcel Service (UPS), recently hosted a one-day regional conference on the Prospects of Digital Financial Inclusion in Women Cross Border Trade (DFI-WCBT), in Lagos, Nigeria, to empower West African women cross-border traders with knowledge and skills to thrive in…

The African Union Economic, Social and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) recently concluded their year-long webinar series aimed at demystifying the African Union Free Movement Protocol (AU-FMP). The webinar series titled “Mobilising Africa: Promoting Free Movement for Growth and Development,” fostered dialogue on the…

In a bid to empower young entrepreneurs across the African continent, the Afrikan Youth Business Council (AfYBC) last week launched its Enterprise Development Webinar Series, with the inaugural webinar focused on the newly adopted AfCFTA Protocol on Women and Youth in Trade.  The inaugural webinar, which was hosted in collaboration…

The African Minerals Development Centre (AMDC) has hosted the East Africa launch of the Pan African Resource Reporting Code (PARC), a standardized code for public reporting of minerals and energy resources to ensure compliance with relevant financial and security regulations across Africa. Left to Right : Mr. Tunde Arisekola ,…

The Economic, Social, and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC), the civil society advisory organ of the African Union, has unveiled its year-long plans to commemorate its 20th anniversary of fostering citizens’ engagement within the work of the Union. The ECOSOCC Team addressing the press on the planned ECOSOCC@20 in Accra, Ghana Established…