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In commemoration of 2020 World Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) Day, the All Africa Association for Small and Medium Enterprises (AAASME), Saturday hosted a webinar discussion on this year’s commemoration theme: “COVID-19: The Great Lockdown and its impact on Small Business.”     Inaugurated March 2018, AAASME is a…

The World Trade Organization has an irreplaceable role to play in transforming countries’ economic prospects and the lives of people around the world. Although the COVID-19 crisis has brought the organization’s deteriorating health into sharp focus, its further decline is not inevitable.     The World Trade Organization is in…

Racism has a global and transnational reach. The objective of the neoliberal capitalist hegemony is to make the whole world in the image of the United States. Indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic has been slanted as the worst manifestation of the ideological battle between Beijing and Washington.        …

The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated some of the best healthcare systems in the world. Consequently, the world has been anticipating a potentially disastrous rampage in Africa, where most countries are grappling with fragile and poorly managed healthcare systems.   Thanks to a relatively late arrival and a slower course of…

The African Union (AU) and Afrochampions, the pan-African business leadership network focused on regional integration and economic emancipation, are set to July 1st, launch the inaugural Boma of Africa, a virtual month-long festival meant to be a broader celebration of Africa Integration Day: July 7th.     It would be…

In commemoration of the Day of the African Child 2020 and the 30th anniversary of the African Children’s Charter, the African Union hosted a virtual couch talk where high-level policymakers discussed a wide-range of issues fundamental to the welfare of the African child – early childhood development, education as well…

There are reasons to be optimistic about Africa’s post-coronavirus growth prospects says Afreximbank’s chief economist     So much has changed since the coronavirus pandemic struck, a “black swan” event that has enfeebled the global economy and set it on a path resembling the 1930s Great Depression. Commodity prices have…

As African governments began plans for the reopening of schools, AU ECOSOCC and AfDB Gender, Women and Civil Society Department’s last bi-weekly COVID-19 awareness webinar series focused on the theme: Building resilience in education systems, post pandemic     One of the fallouts of the COVID-19 pandemic across the globe…

On the occasion of this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, to be commemorated Friday, the member entities of United Nations Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict (UN Action), a cross-UN initiative that unites the work of 14 United Nations entities with the goal of…

This year’s World Refugee Day commemoration scheduled for Saturday under the theme: “Step With Refugees” calls for more public attention to the plight of the scores of millions of refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) worldwide, who had been forced to flee their homes due to wars, disasters, conflict and…