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24 millions d’euros pour faire émerger des projets innovants et accélérer l’électrification du continent africain
GENEVE, Suisse, 20 mars 2017,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- À l’occasion du Africa CEO Forum, qui s’ouvre ce matin à Genève, le groupe AFD annonce le lancement, avec le soutien de l’Union Européenne, de l’« African Renewable Energy Scale Up facility » destiné à stimuler les investissements du secteur privé dans…
Read More »Renewable energy in Africa: EUR24 million to develop innovative projects and boost electrification on the African Continent
GENEVA, Switzerland, 20 March 2017,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- At the Africa CEO Forum which opened this morning in Geneva, AFD Group – in partnership with the European Union – unveiled the “African Renewable Energy Scale-Up facility”, designed to boost private sector investment in on-grid and off-grid renewable energy production in…
Read More »La Cinquième Edition du Africa CEO Forum s’ouvre sur un Appel à Réinventer un Nouveau ‘Business Model’ Africain
Amir Ben Yahmed, Founder and President of the Africa CEO Forum GENEVE, Suisse, 20 mars 2017,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- La cinquième édition du Africa CEO Forum, organisée par le Groupe Jeune Afrique, en partenariat avec la Banque africaine de développement (BAD), et Rainbow Unlimited, a été lancée sous le thème…
Read More »Fifth Africa CEO Forum Opens in Geneva with a Call to Reinvent a New African ‘Business Model’
Amir Ben Yahmed, Founder and President of the Africa CEO Forum GENEVA, Switzerland, 20 March 2017,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/-– Rethinking the African ‘business model’ to remain relevant in a changing and competitive environment set the tone for the opening of the fifth edition of the Africa CEO Forum, a Jeune…
Read More »Ghana tree fall kills at least 18 in waterfall pool
At least 18 people were killed when a large tree fell into the pool they were swimming in at the base of a waterfall in Ghana, police said on Monday. The waterfall, near the town of Kintampo, was busy with weekend visitors, many of them high school students, when the…
Read More »Kenya Snakebite crisis: Anti-venom is running out
Kenya Snakebite crisis: Anti-venom is running out. Snakes bite tens of thousands of people every year across Africa. And in Kenya, many people die or lose their limbs because they have no access to effective antidotes. The situation is especially dire in remote areas. Al Jazeera’s Catherine Soi…
Read More »30 000 jeunes Sénégalais vont recevoir une formation sur les compétences d’employabilité
Projet visant à fournir une formation pratique sur les compétences d’employabilité, ainsi que des services de transition vers l’emploi aux jeunes élèves des écoles secondaires et des écoles EFTP dans 6 des 14 provinces du Sénégal Enid Mbabazi est l’une des milliers de jeunes femmes et hommes qui aiguisent…
Read More »30,000 Senegalese Youth To Receive Work-Readiness Skills Training
Project to provide hands-on employability skills training and school-to-work transitions to youth attending secondary school and TVET schools in 6 of Senegal’s 14 provinces Enid Mbabazi is one of the thousands of young women and men who sharpened their work-readiness skills in the Akazi Kanoze project led by EDC in…
Read More »Ending famine in Somalia, the Turkish way
Jerome Jarre’s viral hashtag, #TurkishAirlinesHelpSomalia, was yet another attempt to draw worldwide attention to the famine in the Somali peninsula, but the Somali people are in need of both an organised, short-term as well as a long-term response to ensure that this crisis is contained, and does not happen in…
Read More »ISIL after Mosul: Insurgency and rivalry
“The battle now is in the final stages,” Iraqi Prime Minister Hayder al-Abadi said on March 14 of the government offensive to retake Mosul from ISIL. “They are cornered, and if they will not surrender they will definitely get killed.” While the impending combat threatens to be circuitous and uncertain…
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