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Africa Investments 

First Hydromet Gap Report calls for scaled-up investments in weather forecasts and early warning systems

Elwin Mandowa,
An estimated 23,000 lives per year could be saved and up to $2 billion in economic losses averted by improving weather forecasts, early warning systems, and climate information in low- and middle-income countries, according to a new report issued by the Alliance for Hydromet Development. Known as hydromet, reliable and accurate weather and climate services, such as early warning systems,… Read More
Africa Investments 

G5 Sahel : la Banque africaine de développement et le HCR appuient le plan de riposte sanitaire du Tchad contre la pandémie de Covid-19

Elwin Mandowa,
La Banque africaine de développement et le Haut-commissariat des Nations unies pour les réfugiés (HCR) au Tchad ont remis, le 30 juin dernier, au gouvernement tchadien des équipements médicaux et du matériel de protection destinés aux structures impliquées dans la lutte contre la pandémie de Covid-19. Ce don d’une valeur de près de 2,85 millions de dollars américains, composé de… Read More
Africa Investments 

African Development Bank scoping study identifies opportunities for private sector participation in Africa’s climate agenda

Elwin Mandowa,
A recently published African Development Bank scoping study on implementing NDCs in Africa recommends that development financial institutions and other investors focus on high-impact, high-growth potential start-ups that can drive climate-related innovation. The study, NDC implementation in Africa through green investments by private sector – A Scoping Study, was produced in partnership with the Fund for African Private Sector Assistance… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Sunday Igboho: Another Saro-Wiwa? By Ozodinukwe Okenwa

Elwin Mandowa,
Just days after the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB) and Eastern Security Network (ESN) fugitive leader, Nnamdi Kanu, was ‘kidnapped’ in Kenya and brought back home in chains Sunday Igboho’s Soka country home in Ibadan, Oyo State, came under serious assault at midnight hours from the Department of State Services (DSS) and military forces. In the end two people inside… Read More
Africa Investments 

Burkina Faso : la Banque africaine de développement apporte une contribution décisive à l’assainissement de la ville de Ouagadougou

Elwin Mandowa,
Olivier Tiendrébéogo est étudiant en géographie à l’université Joseph Ki-Zerbo de Ouagadougou. Il habite Gounghin, à quelque 200 mètres du Canal du Mogho Naba qui traverse plusieurs quartiers de la capitale burkinabè sur quatre kilomètres de long. La zone est réputée fortement inondable. Mais en dépit des prévisions météorologiques annonçant une forte pluviométrie cette année, la saison des pluies naissante… Read More
Africa Investments 

2021 Conference on Land Policy in Africa (CLPA 2021)

Elwin Mandowa,
What: 2021 Conference on Land Policy in Africa Who: African Land Policy Centre (ALPC), When: 2- 4 November 2021; 09:00 to 17:00 GMT+2 Where:  Kigali, Rwanda; Virtual The African Land Policy Centre (ALPC) will hold its Land Policy in Africa Conference on 2-4 November 2021 in a hybrid format: partly online and partly in Kigali, Rwanda. The theme is Land governance… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Kanu And Ighoho: Buhari Beckoning Crisis To Elongate His Tenure, By SKC Ogbonnia

Elwin Mandowa,
The abduction of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), and the recent terrorist attack on the leader of the movement for Odudua Nation, Adeniyi Adeyemo (aka Sunday Igboho), by President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime did not come as a surprise.  In a recent piece, calling for the removal of the president from office, I had alerted… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

The Partitioning Of Nigeria Ahead Of 2023, By Fredrick Nwabufo

Elwin Mandowa,
Avarice and prejudice drove European conquistadors to carve up much of Africa like cake. With the gradual end of the transatlantic slave trade spurred by the industrial revolution in Europe, the trespassers, possessed by capitalist fiends, sought sources of raw materials for their industries and markets for their manufactured products. These encroachers considered Africa as ‘’terra nullius’’ – a vast… Read More
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[Video]: Thousands queue to bid farewell to TB Joshua

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– – Thousands of mourners from around the world have been queuing to view the body of popular Nigerian preacher TB Joshua, who died last month at the age of 57. The influential preacher has been lying in state at his Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN) auditorium in Nigerian state of Lagos. He will be buried on Friday but… Read More
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