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Cabo Verde set to host hybrid 2021 African Economic Conference on financing development in the Covid-19 era

Elwin Mandowa,
African heads of state and government together with senior policymakers will share their perspectives on how to reshape Africa’s development financing models at the 2021 African Economic Conference, which takes place on Thursday, 2 December. Cabo Verde Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Olavo Correia said the conference offered “an extraordinarily important moment” to chart the continent’s development course, including… Read More
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‘Unity’ of purpose and action needed: Guterres tells AU-UN Conference

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He highlighted the wide range of progress made through collaboration, from frameworks around peace, security and sustainable development, to joint missions and programmes for humanitarian operations, elections and peaceful transfers of power. Mr. Guterres also focussed on areas critical for an inclusive, resilient and sustainable recovery on the continent, that are grounded in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and… Read More
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Landmark decision to negotiate new accord on pandemics ‘cause for hope’

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus welcomed the consensus decision, reached during a special session of the World Health Assembly (WHA), the UN agency’s top decision-making body, attended by representatives from its 194 Member States.  Historic session  The three-day meeting began on Monday with the sole goal of considering the benefits of creating a new international agreement on pandemic prevention preparedness and how… Read More
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Intégration régionale : les présidents de la Mauritanie et du Sénégal posent la première pierre du pont de Rosso entre les deux pays

Elwin Mandowa,
Le président de la Mauritanie, Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani, et le président du Sénégal, Macky Sall, ont lancé, ce jour, les travaux de construction du pont de Rosso qui reliera les deux pays voisins. Le vice-président chargé du Complexe du secteur privé, de l’infrastructure et de l’industrialisation de la Banque africaine de développement, Solomon Quaynor, l’ambassadrice de l’Union européenne… Read More
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Compact: African Development Bank and IFC Partner to Advance Economic Development in Lusophone African countries

Elwin Mandowa,
The African Development Bank and IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, on Wednesday signed a partnership agreement admitting IFC as the first institutional partner to the Development Finance Compact for Portuguese-Speaking Countries of Africa, or the Lusophone Compact. The agreement was signed by African Development Bank Vice President for Corporate Services and Human Resources and Chair of the… Read More
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Mozambique conference calls for revival of fishing communities

Elwin Mandowa,
African leaders and policymakers have called for strategies to harness the potential of the blue economy to achieve sustainable development. The call came at a high-level conference hosted by the Government of Mozambique on 18 and 19 November in the City of Vilanculos. The theme was Investing in Ocean Health is Securing the Planet’s Future. Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi hosted… Read More
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Battle to end HIV, COVID, demands greater international solidarity

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Under the theme End Inequalities. End AIDS. End Pandemics, Abdulla Shahid underscored a connection between COVID-19 and HIV/AIDS, pointing out that both exacerbate inequalities and impact people, “particularly in terms of access to treatment and health services”. Moreover, COVID and the HIV epidemic not only impact the health of individuals, but together have also “impacted households, communities, and the development… Read More
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Workers with HIV-AIDS continue to face stigma, discrimination: ILO 

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Despite some improvement in people’s tolerance to the disease in the more than 40 years since the AIDS epidemic began, a survey of 55,000 people in 50 countries found that only one in two people knew that HIV cannot be transmitted by sharing a bathroom.  “It is shocking that, 40 years into the HIV and AIDS epidemic, myths and misconceptions are still so widespread,” said Chidi King,… Read More
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COVID-19: WHO’s Tedros criticizes ‘blunt’ Omicron measures 

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In a statement on Tuesday, the World Health Organization Director-General said that it was “deeply concerning” that Botswana and South Africa, where the new variant was first identified, were “being penalized by others for doing the right thing”.  Dozens of countries have imposed travel bans on the southern African nations since the mutation was discovered at the end of last week.  Threat still… Read More
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World ‘dangerously unprepared’ for future pandemics unless leaders tackle inequalities, UNAIDS warns

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In an urgent call to action ahead of World AIDS Day on 1 December, the agency focused on ending the disease as a public health threat by 2030, said that if transformative measures are not taken, the world will stay trapped in the COVID-19 crisis and remain dangerously unprepared for all future pandemics. Infection every 2 minutes In a new… Read More
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