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FIFA Foundation uses football to spread awareness in Indonesia on World AIDS Day

The friendly match involved players from the National Homeless World Cup team, people living with HIV (PLHIV), drug consumers, members of other marginalised groups and the public

World AIDS Day is held annually on 1 December; A friendly match was held in Bandung, Indonesia as part of the Indonesia Without Stigma campaign; Supported by FIFA Foundation (www.FIFA.com), Rumah Cemara uses football to increase awareness about AIDS. On the eve of the FIFA U-17 World Cup Indonesia 2023™…

Afreximbank
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Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF2023) exceeds targets with recorded deals worth up to US$43.8 billion

130 countries participated in the trade fair, which attracted 1,939 exhibitors and 28,282 participants who attended physically and through the IATF virtual platform

African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) (www.Afreximbank.com) announces that the third Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF2023) held in Cairo from 9 to 15 November witnessed the conclusion of business deals and transactions valued at US$43.8 billion. In final tallies released in Cairo, the organisers of the continental event said that the amount represented…

African Development Bank Group (AfDB)

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Senegal: African Development Bank loans over EUR 74 million to strengthen internal resource mobilization and support industrial activities

The objective is to allow the government to have more resources to finance the structuring projects and programmes of the Senegal Emerging Plan and improve people’s living conditions

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) granted a loan of EUR 74.5 million to Senegal in Abidjan on 1 December 2023 to support the implementation of the first phase of the Resource Mobilization and Industrial Development Support Programme (PAMRDI-I). The programme has a number of…

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    • The Developed World’s Broken Promises: How Can Africa Finance the Energy Transition?
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The Developed World’s Broken Promises: How Can Africa Finance the Energy Transition? (By NJ Ayuk)

The Copenhagen Accord wasn’t a binding promise, but it did set up a durable framework for future talks

By NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman, African Energy Chamber (www.EnergyChamber.org) From an African perspective, one of the most important things to come out of COP15, the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, was the formal recognition of the fact that lower-income countries were not in a position to bear…

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Uganda: African Development Bank to lend more than $252 million to improve rural transport and facilitate regional integration

The financial support consists of two loans: $179.68 million from the African Development Bank and $73.15 million from the African Development Fund, the Bank Group's concessional loan window

Meeting on 1 December in Abidjan, the Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) approved a loan of $252.83 million to Uganda, to fund the construction of the Laropi-Moyo-Afoji and Katuna-Muko-Kamuganguzi road. The financial support consists of two loans: $179.68 million from the African Development Bank and $73.15 million from…

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    • Mid-term implementation of the African Development Bank’s Country Strategy Paper 2021-2025 for Tanzania shows a significant improvement in access to drinking water and the state of the country’s road
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Tanzania: Bank operations produce results beyond expectations, according to the Tanzania Country Strategy Paper 2021-2025 mid-term review

The African Development Bank Group’s active portfolio in Tanzania comprised 25 operations, with a total value of USD 2.75 billion

The African Development Bank’s (www.AfDB.org) Country Strategy Paper (CSP) for Tanzania has been implemented over the last two years with the programmed operations during the period producing results that exceed expectations, according to the mid-term review of the CSP 2021-2025 (https://apo-opa.co/3sFaSLg) published on 9 November. The rate of access to…

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South Africa Visa Application Centre moves to a more spacious and easily accessible location in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The newly relocated centre was inaugurated on 29 November 2023 by HE Nosicelo D MBELE, Consul General, South African Consulate General in Lubumbashi, Democratic Re-public of Congo

Applicants can now submit their visa applications at the new Centre located at Office No 5, 2nd Floor, Hypnose Building, 826 Av. Mama Yemo, Lubumbashi from 29 November 2023. Commenting on the relocation of the Centre, HE Nosicelo D MBELE, Consul General, Consulate-General of the Republic of South Africa said,…

World Health Organization (WHO), Ghana
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Strengthening the fight against HIV in Ghana

The efforts have led to HIV testing and treatment services in Ghana being free in all government health facilities and some selected private health facilities

Samuel Kofi*, 19, from Takoradi in Ghana’s western region discovered he was HIV positive in November 2022. A situation that left him in shock and in complete denial as he thought death was staring him in the face. “I did not suspect I had HIV when I went to do…

WHO Regional Office for Africa
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Tanzania launches the national strategic plan to integrate health sector HIV, viral hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) elimination

Statistics show that Tanzania has about 1.7 million people living with HIV (PLHIV) and over 2 million people infected by viral hepatitis B and C

Tanzania has launched the Integrated Health Sector HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI’s) National Strategic Plan (NSP) to contribute to ending the three epidemics by 2030. Statistics show that Tanzania has about 1.7 million people living with HIV (PLHIV) and over 2 million people infected by viral hepatitis…

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Morocco: Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Hasnaa Represents His Majesty the King at World Climate Action Summit in Dubai

COP28 provides an appropriate platform for achieving climate ambitions and strengthening sustainable development, in the interests of present and future generations

Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Hasnaa represents His Majesty King Mohammed VI at the World Climate Action Summit, held as part of the 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28), which kicked off on December,01, 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. On…