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  • Published on Jan 28, 2025

    Ruto joins African leaders to launch 'Mission 300' aimed at electrifying 300 million people

    President William Ruto joined other African leaders in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on Tuesday for the launch of an ambitious initiative aimed at connecting 300 million people in the continent to electricity over the next five years. The African Heads of State …

    Source: Citizen TV Kenya - Uncategorized
  • Published on Jan 28, 2025

    In numbers: How Egypt’s Sisi undermined the right to education in 10 years of rule

    Egyptian authorities' cuts to spending on schools are undermining the right to education, a Human Rights Watch report revealed on Monday. According to the report, the spending reductions are likely to exacerbate an existing “crisis of poor quality …

    Source: Middle East Eye - Uncategorized
  • Published on Jan 28, 2025

    How AI Exclusion Impacts Humankind

    The following article was written by Dr. Cornelia C. Walther, a visiting scholar at Wharton and director of global alliance POZE. A humanitarian practitioner who spent over 20 years at the United Nations, Walther’s current research focuses on leveraging AI …

    Source: Knowledge@Wharton - Pennsylvania - Neutral
  • Published on Jan 28, 2025

    Ruto, Other Presidents Launch Ksh7.5 Trillion Project Touching on 300 Million People

    To ensure that more African households have access to electricity, President William Ruto has joined other African leaders in a program that will see 300 Million people across Africa connected to power. Ruto joined other African leaders during the African …

    Source: Kenyans.co.ke - Neutral
  • Published on Jan 28, 2025

    Champion girl-child education, lawmaker urges traditional, religious leaders

      National Assembly lawmaker and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Education (Basic and Secondary), Senator Lawal Usman, has urged traditional and religious leaders in the country to champion the education and empowerment of the girl-child in their …

    Source: The Guardian (Nigeria) - Uncategorized
  • Published on Jan 28, 2025

    Sierra Leone Secures Place in $50 Billion Energy Initiative to Electrify Africa

    Sierra Leone has been selected as a beneficiary of the Mission 300 initiative, a $50 billion program aimed at electrifying 300 million Africans by 2030. The announcement was made following President Julius Maada Bio’s participation in the inaugural Africa …

    Source: Sierraloaded - Center-right
  • Published on Jan 28, 2025

    Gov’t to go bankrupt, Filipinos to go hungrier

    GOTCHA - Jarius Bondoc - The Philippine Star January 29, 2025 | 12:00am Politicos and bureaucrats misspend trillions of pesos each year. At the rate they’re going, they’ll bankrupt the government. In 2024 they budgeted P5.768 trillion. Short of revenues by …

    Source: Philstar - Pro-Government
  • Published on Jan 28, 2025

    Driving collective action for continent’s sustainable future

    Dar es Salaam. The Mission 300 Africa Energy Summit 2025 opened officially in the city yesterday, with a call for collective efforts to meet the continent’s ambitious energy targets and addressing key challenges that impede Africans’ access to electricity. …

    Source: The Citizen - Uncategorized
  • Published on Jan 28, 2025

    Religious, Traditional Leaders Should Champion Adequate Education Of Girl-Child — Senator Lawal Adamu

    …urges World Bank to extend AGILE project to 36 states, FCT The Chairman, Senate Committee on Education (Basic and Secondary), Senator Lawal Adamu Usman has charged religious and traditional leaders in the country to champion the adequate education and …

    Source: NewsBreakNaija - Label Pending
  • Published on Jan 22, 2025

    World Bank Group endorses new 5-year Country Partnership Framework for Armenia

    The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors on Tuesday endorsed a new five-year Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for Armenia, Armenian News-NEWS.am has learned from the Yerevan office of the World Bank. The framework aims to reduce poverty and …

    Source: NEWS.am - Neutral
  • Published on Jan 24, 2025

    Takers not Makers: The unjust poverty and unearned wealth from colonialism

    Billionaire wealth has risen three times faster in 2024 than 2023. Five trillionaires are now expected within a decade. Meanwhile, crises of economy, climate and conflict mean the number of people living in poverty has barely changed since 1990.  Most …

    Source: Polity - Label Pending
  • Published on Jan 28, 2025

    Believability and The NBS

    By Abiodun Adeniyi The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) appears to be a victim of polarised perception. While the Bureau may not have engineered it, dilemmas in message reception are a cause. This crisis comes when individuals or entities act innocently …

    Source: Daily Trust - Label Pending
  • Published on Jan 23, 2025

    PM Shehbaz launches WB’s $20bn partnership framework for Pakistan

    Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif launched World Bank’s Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for Pakistan at a ceremony held in Islamabad on Thursday. Speaking on the occasion, he said today is a great day in the history of Pakistan in terms of very …

    Source: Daily Times - Center-left
  • Published on Jan 28, 2025

    Education to Heal Ukrainian Children’s Invisible War Scars

    GPE is helping increase the capacity of Ukraine’s educators to reinforce children’s psychosocial resilience.  More than 60,000 education professionals, including teachers, principals and school psychologists, are trained in psychosocial support and school …

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  • Published on Jan 28, 2025

    Nigeria Reaffirms Commitment To Universal Energy Access Goal

      Uche Cecil Izuora Nigeria has reassured that ongoing commitment towards reforming its energy industry is geared towards addressing its 2030 goal of achieving universal energy access and clean cooking. The country is currently leveraging cutting-edge …

    Source: Oriental News Nigeria - Neutral
  • Published on Jan 28, 2025

    Politicians Attempting to Influence Cash Transfer Register— Yilwatda

    The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Nentawe Yilwatda, has accused some politicians of attempting to influence the social register used for government conditional cash transfers aimed at poor Nigerians. Appearing on Channels …

    Source: News Central TV - Uncategorized
  • Published on Jan 28, 2025

    Orders ineffective against illegal logging-official

    By Kei Emmanuel Duku   Previous Orders issued by the ministry are ineffective in curbing illegal logging and charcoal trade in South Sudan. Undersecretary in the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Jaden Tongun Emilio attributes the ineffectiveness of …

    Source: Number One Citizen Daily - Neutral
  • Published on Jan 28, 2025

    Nigeria: Naira vs dollar

    ‘How did we get here?’ You hear this ever so often when expectations are dashed and people receive rude wake-up calls, especially when overwhelmed with the enormity of the weight of the economic deprivation – hardly a day passes without hearing this …

    Source: The Cable - Neutral
  • Published on Jan 28, 2025

    How Climate Change Threatens Agriculture and Food Security in MENA?

    Although countries of our region contribute less than 5% of global carbon emissions, they bear the heaviest burden of climate change’s consequences. Climate change is not merely a passing challenge facing our world; it is an all-encompassing crisis that …

    Source: Greenpeace International - Left-wing

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