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Africa Investments 

African Development Bank Evaluation Week 2020

Elwin Mandowa,
What: AfDB’s Fourth forum on evaluation and development Who: Independent Development Evaluation at the African Development Bank When: Wednesday, 2 December to Friday 4 December, 09:00 – 16:00 (GMT) Where: Virtual This is a biennial global knowledge event with the main objective of facilitating discourse on the role of development evaluation in supporting African countries to speed up the delivery… Read More
Africa Investments 

African Development Bank Evaluation Week 2020

Elwin Mandowa,
What: AfDB’s Fourth forum on evaluation and development Who: Independent Development Evaluation at the African Development Bank When: Wednesday, 2 December to Friday 4 December, 09:00 – 16:00 (GMT) Where: Virtual This is a biennial global knowledge event with the main objective of facilitating discourse on the role of development evaluation in supporting African countries to speed up the delivery… Read More
Africa East Africa Sudan World 

Ethiopia to ‘receive and reintegrate’ those fleeing Tigray conflict

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– – Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Monday said his country wants to “receive and reintegrate” thousands of refugees fleeing the northern state of Tigray. Federal forces are fighting local troops in Tigray forcing over 25,000 people to flee to neighbouring countries. Many of them have fled into Sudan, according to UN refugee agency officials who toured the border… Read More
Africa World 

DR Congo musician Tshala Muana arrested

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– – Congolese singer Tshala Muana has been arrested. Her producer Claude Mashala said the musician was detained by National Intelligence Agency (ANR) officers over a controversial song titled ‘Ingratitude’ which she released online last weekend. Speaking to the Nation by phone from Kinshasa on Monday evening, fellow musician Lofombo Gode said Ms Muana was arrested in Kinshasa amid speculation over the ‘deeper meaning’ or… Read More
Africa Investments 

Afrique centrale : la CEMAC organise une table ronde à Paris pour lever 3,4 milliards d’euros en faveur de projets d’intégration régionale

Elwin Mandowa,
La Communauté économique et monétaire de l’Afrique centrale (CEMAC) a ouvert, lundi 16 novembre à Paris, une table‑ronde destinée à lever 3,4 milliards d’euros pour le financement des projets intégrateurs d’infrastructures de transport et d’énergie dans ses six pays membres. La table‑ronde, organisée en format hybride (présentiel et virtuel) jusqu’au 17 novembre, vise à lever des fonds auprès de partenaires… Read More
Africa Investments 

COVID-19 is a ‘wake-up command’ to address Africa’s challenges – Tony Blair

Elwin Mandowa,
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the challenges and opportunities of Africa’s development landscape, former British prime minister Tony Blair said on Monday in a lecture organized by the African Development Institute in Abidjan. “We have the same problems but what we also have is vastly increased urgency…not so much a wake-up call but a wake-up command,” Blair said. The former… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

We Saved Christianity By Voting Trump Out By Churchill Okonkwo

Elwin Mandowa,
My summary of the outcome of the United States election was that the promoters of nationalism, isolationism, xenophobia, conspiracy theories, lies, indecency, hatred, division were rejected. We saved science; we saved democracy; we saved the world, and we saved Christianity too. One of the things that became clear to me after Joe Biden won the United States presidential election was… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Femi Adesina And The Parable Of The Tolerant Father By Achike Chude

Elwin Mandowa,
Re: Femi Adesina’s ‘We Have Not Many Fathers’ And so, Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, says that we were lucky that the other side of the president that is frightening, fearful, and vicious was not manifested, otherwise ears would have tingled and tongues wagged about the calamities that would have befallen us lesser mortals following the #EndSARS episode. In his words,… Read More
Africa Investments 

Sénégal : la restauration de l’écosystème du lac de Guiers, financée par la Banque africaine de développement, profite aux riverains

Elwin Mandowa,
Après cinq ans de travaux, le Projet de restauration des fonctions écologiques et économiques du lac de Guiers, dans le nord du Sénégal, est arrivé à expiration en 2019. Il a rétabli des conditions optimales de fonctionnement du lac, tout en permettant l’aménagement de la réserve spéciale d’avifaune du Ndiaël, selon les conclusions d’un rapport de la Banque africaine de… Read More
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