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Month: April 2020

African Development Institute to rally African policy planning for macroeconomic resilience against COVID-19 pandemic

Elwin Mandowa,
The African Development Institute of the African Development Bank will host a virtual seminar on Wednesday, 29 April 2020 to develop responses to macroeconomic policy challenges facing Africa nations in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Like elsewhere, African countries are not spared the devastating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on their national health systems, economies, trade, cultures, societies and… Read More
Africa 

S. Africa shelves ”Freedom Day” celebration to test for COVID-19

Village Reporter,
South Africans did not mark a national freedom day celebration on Monday. Rather, people were tested for signs of COVID-19 in the densely populated Alexandra township under lockdown. April 27, was a day to commemorate the first post-apartheid elections in 1994. ‘‘The community of Alexandra are very vulnerable because they stay on top to each other or very close to… Read More
Investments 

IDEV 2019 Annual Report: From experience to knowledge and learning

Elwin Mandowa,
For Independent Development Evaluation (IDEV), 2019 was a year of helping the African Development Bank Group and its Regional Member Countries (RMCs) to transform experience into knowledge and learning through independent evaluations.  IDEV has supported both the Bank and its RMCs to achieve their development goals through the lens of the Bank’s High 5 priorities, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable… Read More
Africa 

Egypt extends state of emergency for three months

Village Reporter,
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Tuesday ordered the renewal for three months of a long-running state of emergency, citing health as well as security concerns. Egypt has been under a state of emergency since April 2017, when twin church bombings claimed by an Islamic State (ISIS) group affiliate killed dozens of people. The new extension comes as the government… Read More
Leaders Lifestyle 

Apostle Suleman: Heal COVID19/HIV Patient and Get a Thousand Dollars

Leo Igwe,
I am challenging the founder of Omega Ministries, Apostle Suleman to demonstrate his so-called gift of healing under agreed medical and scientific conditions. I ask Suleman to heal a person with a confirmed case of COVID19 and get a thousand US dollars. This challenge has become necessary because Apostle Suleman has in a recent video urged the government of Nigeria… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Apostle Suleman: Heal COVID-19/HIV Patient And Get A Thousand Dollars By Leo Igwe

Leo Igwe,
I am challenging the founder of Omega Ministries, Apostle Suleman, to demonstrate his so-called gift of healing under agreed medical and scientific conditions. I ask Suleman to heal a person with a confirmed case of COVID-19 and get a thousand US dollars. This challenge has become necessary because Apostle Suleman has in a recent video urged the government of Nigeria… Read More
Investments 

African Development Bank Chief Financial Economist Edson Mpyisi discusses the locust crisis in the East and Horn of Africa regions and the Bank’s…

Elwin Mandowa,
African Development Bank Chief Financial Economist Edson Mpyisi discusses the locust crisis in the East and Horn of Africa regions and the Bank’s work to help affected African nations | African Development Bank – Building today, a better Africa tomorrow Read More
Africa 

Libya’s Tripoli government denounces latest ‘coup’ by Khalifa Haftar

Village Reporter,
The Tripoli-based Government of National Unity (GNA) on Tuesday denounced an umpteenth “coup” by its rival, East Libyan strongman, Marshal Khalifa Haftar, who had assured the day before that he had obtained the “people’s mandate” to govern the country. In a brief speech Monday evening, Haftar announced that the general command of his self-proclaimed “army” had “accepted the will of… Read More