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Press Release With organizational risks from climate change, resource depletion, environmental regulations, social pressures and customer perceptions, businesses now have to find more sustainable ways of operating that will maximize their positive impacts on people, planet and profit. Two young women, Adiya Atuluku and Jennifer Uchendu who connected on social…

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After nearly six months without a government, the political stalemate in Morocco has finally ended. Morocco’s new Prime Minister Saad Eddine el-Othmani has agreed to form a coalition government with five other parties. El-Othmani was appointed earlier this month after the king sacked el-Othmani’s predecessor, Abdelilah Benkirane.  The charismatic and popular Benkirane…

Six aid workers have been killed in an ambush in famine-hit South Sudan, the United Nations said on Sunday, without specifying  what organisation they worked for. The victims were attacked on Saturday as they travelled from the capital, Juba, to the eastern town of Pibor, according to the  UN Office…

By Ibrahim Badamasi Kwankwasiyya Development Foundation, an NGO working to alleviate poverty among low income families in Nigeria, has provided food items and cash support to the 760 newly married couples who benefitted from the recent batch of the mass wedding program of the Kano state government. The Kano state…

Morocco’s new Prime Minister Saad Eddine el-Othmani has succeeded in building a governing coalition, ending a five-month political deadlock after just eight days in office. El-Othmani, 61, of the Islamist Party for Justice and Development, or PJD, announced in a press conference in Rabat on Saturday that an “agreement has…

Burkina Faso’s friendly against Nigeria in London next week has been cancelled because of visa issues affecting travelling players from Burkina Faso, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) said. The NFF said on Sunday that seven Burkina Faso players failed to secure British entry visas, forcing Monday’s football match at Barnet…

By the time Dawit arrived in Ethiopia aged 29, he had been twice arrested and imprisoned by the Eritrean government. We met Dawit in a refugee camp called Adi Harush in Northern Ethiopia, where he had settled nine months earlier, hoping to build his future in the host country. Despite…

Heads of state from the Horn of Africa have appealed for funding to help solve Somalia’s refugee crisis. More than two million Somalis have been displaced since 1991 and the country now faces its third famine in 25 years. Al Jazeera’s Catherine Soi reports from Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.…