New York October 23, 2013 – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon has paid tribute to the important role played by the NEPAD Agency and the Africa Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) in the stride to eradicate poverty in Africa. The UN Chief was speaking at the official opening of the High Level panel discussion on Africa’s Innovative Governance through ten…
TUNIS, Tunisia, October 21, 2013/ — The eighth African Economic Conference will take place in Johannesburg, South Africa, from October 28-30, 2013 under the theme “Regional Integration in Africa”. The conference is organized each year by the African Development Bank (AfDB) ( http://www.afdb.org), the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). This year’s…
Mombasa: By Luis Javier Campuzano, Ambassador of Mexico, at the 5th African Grain Trade Summit, October 1, 2013: It has been a long dream for me to be able to share a little part of Mexican culture to all of those countries in Africa who took maize as a staple food. As you may know, Kenya hosted in November…
Dar es salaam, October 15, 2013 BUSINESS Investigative reporting in Tanzania still faces a lot of challenges, including lack of specialisation and limitation in terms of the number of stories published in the media, according to Managing Director of PAMOMA Communication and Research Company, Anthony Muchoki. Muchoki was among the Media Consultants who facilitated at a one year business…
Elly D.Kimbwereza Email: elly.Kimwereza@gmail.com Way back in 1918 in Heliopolis near Cairo, Egypt a small piece of paper was found in a book manuscript with the following words. ‘‘Please make sure that this manuscript is written into the form of a book and give it to the Pare people because it is their history. It took 90 years to…
Dar es Salaam: Every year on 20 October, Baha’is worldwide celebrate the Birth of the Bab, the first of the two Divine Teachers central to the founding of the Baha’i Faith. In Dar es Salaam the Bahá’í community will gather for prayers and devotional readings followed by fellowship and celebration on Sunday, 20th October , 2013 at 10:00 a.m….
By Varja Lipovsek, Learning, Monitoring and Evaluation Manager, Twaweza and Rakesh Rajani, Head, Twaweza www.twaweza.org : ——————————————— Policymakers in Tanzania, as in many neighboring countries, regularly make decisions for the entire country with little access to the experiences and realities of a large majority of citizens. The world of policies (and politics) and the world of ordinary citizens are…
Around 65 per cent of women use the promise of sex as a reward, a new study has found. Research into the sex lives and preferences of co-habiting couples in the UK discovered that women are more likely than men to use sex as a reward for ‘good behaviour’. The study, conducted by ukmedix.com, spoke to 1,994 men and…
*CALL TO PARTICIPATE IN EYA SURVEY* * * The Association of Tanzania Employers (ATE) is pleased to announce and call for participation in* the Employer of the Year Award (EYA) *Survey for 2013*. The award event for 2012 was graced by the President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Dr Jakaya M. Kikwete and all participants received a certificate….
*25th September 2013. Mombasa , Kenya*. Over 250 top leaders from Africa including business executives from the private sector, including farmers, traders and millers, non-governmental organizations, development partners, financial institutions, researcher government representatives, regional bilateral institutions, and policymakers will convene from the 1st – 3rd October 2013 to discuss key issues affecting the African grain sector. This will be…