Head of Multi-billion Climate Investment Funds (CIF) says SDGs and Climate Week send a loud and clear message With the Sustainable Development Goals now adopted and Climate Week drawing to a close in New York, Mafalda Duarte, Program Manager of the Climate Investment Funds says the activity and impetus around climate and development sends “a loud and clear message”…
Applications NOW being accepted until September 7, 2015 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, August 31, 2015/— The deadline for applying for the 2015 ONE Africa Award has been extended until midnight Monday, September 7, 2015. Africa-led, Africa-driven organizations now have an additional week to submit their applications for consideration for the Award. The Award honors outstanding contributions by African…
Swala Oil & Gas (Tanzania) plc (‘Swala’ or ‘the Company’) declared yesterday that the Ministry of Energy and Mining (MEM) has agreed to extend the period within which an exploration well must be drilled in each of the Kilosa-Kilombero and Pangani licences to the 20th February 2017. This one-year extension is to be deducted from the 4-year additional…
Dar es salaam, August 31, 2015/- TANZANIA has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with six Development Partners (DPs) on Health Basket Fund (HBF 2015-2025) worth 531bn/- with focus to improve and increase performance of the health sector in the country. The DPs are Canada, Denmark, Ireland, Switzerland, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Population Fund…
CAPE-TOWN, South-Africa, August 20, 2015/— CNC Group (CNC), parent company of Click n Compare, the South African-focused comparison website is expanding their African footprint after a very successful year with a strong month on month growth of 40%. Alongside the South African success of the brand comes now their launch of a new consumer-facing brand, CompareGuru, into both Nigeria…
CONSTITUTION OF KENYA PREAMBLE We, the people of Kenya— ACKNOWLEDGING the supremacy of the Almighty God of all creation: HONOURING those who heroically struggled to bring freedom and justice to our land: PROUD of our ethnic, cultural and religious diversity, and determined to live in peace and unity as one indivisible sovereign nation: RESPECTFUL of the environment, which is…
Genetically modified maize will double productivity while reducing costs of fertilizer by eliminating the infestation of the stem borer. Scientists from the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation say the water efficient BT maize has the potential to yield 3.7 tonnes of per hectare. Kenya produces an average of 1.6 tonnes per hectare compared to the global average of…
Benin is the last stop on this two-week road show during which the co-founders unveiled their long-term objective to use solar activities to drive education by introducing connected tablet devices. COTONOU, Benin, August 6, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ —Akon Lighting Africa concluded its African road show last night in Benin. The three co-founders, Akon, Thione Niang and Samba…
Kampala, Uganda; 5/8/2015: So come the 10th Parliament in 2016, and the number of Members of Parliament in Uganda shall catapult from the current 375 to 400+ once the proposed new constituencies have been created! But does someone realize what a nuisance this is? Do we even appreciate the blatant fact that the position of an MP has been so watered down…
People and organizations can do great things with Cortana, Microsoft Edge, Xbox App, new Office Universal apps and more REDMOND, Wash., July 30, 2015/ — Microsoft Corp. announced that Windows 10 will become available Wednesday as a free upgrade(1) or with new PCs and tablets. Windows 10 includes innovations such as Cortana,(2) an Xbox app and Microsoft Edge for a familiar, yet more…