Category: Industry

Monrovia, Liberia// — The Ministry of Education is strengthening how schools across Liberia record, manage, and use information to support better planning and education delivery.

A single failed switch during peak hours can cascade across an entire rail network. A maintenance intervention postponed by a few days can quietly erode capacity until speed restrictions become unavoidable.

Where did you accumulate most of your human capital? You may think it was in school, but you would be forgetting an equally important setting: the workplace. Roughly half of your human capital was probably gained on the job.

Monrovia, Liberia// –Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr., President of the Republic of Liberia, has reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to ensuring that out-of-school children are identified, enrolled, supported, retained, and empowered to thrive through the Back to My Classroom (BTMC) Campaign.

Accra, Ghana//-200 beneficiaries of the SME Business Clinic in Accra have lauded MTN Ghana and its partners for delivering practical and high-value training.

Accra, Ghana// — The Canadian High Commissioner to Ghana, H.E. Myriam Montrat, has paid a courtesy call on the Minister for the Interior,  Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak, to discuss areas of mutual interest and explore opportunities for enhanced cooperation in peace and security.

Lagos, Nigeria// — The Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) is preparing to accelerate adoption and transaction growth across Africa as it enters the next phase of its strategy, following significant expansion of its network and strong growth in payment volumes and values.

Accra, Ghana//-Canada’s much-vaunted engagement with Africa is a partnership in name only, a senior Ghanaian jurist has charged, delivering a blistering legal indictment of North-South research relations that strips away decades of diplomatic niceties to expose a relationship of donor and beneficiary.

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates//-Azizi Developments, a leading private developer in the UAE, is unveiling Azizi Florence, an  $8.1 billion master-planned community marking its first project in Sharjah.

New York, United States of America//OCHA reports that the UN and its partners continue to support national authorities in scaling up the response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.