July 10, 2020//-Kenya’s tourism had a solid year in 2019, with market data showing a continued maturity of the sector. For starters, international arrivals rose above the two million mark year over year.
Category: Industry
IFC Provides $10 Million Equity Investment to Mountain Nazca II
Mexico City, Mexico, July 9th, 2020//- The International Finance Corporation (IFC), member of the World Bank Group, announced a $10 million equity investment in Mountain Nazca II, a venture capital fund focused on investing in early-stage technology companies in Latin América, predominantly in México.
How COVID-19 Is Impacting the College Application Process
July 9, 2020//-Just as the pandemic has accelerated a shift to online learning, it is also reshaping the college application process.
Will Universities Learn from Lockdowns?
The COVID-19 crisis is likely to bring about further rapid and far-reaching shifts in the economic ground beneath us. But we need not view these changes with dread if the pandemic also propels a transition to better and more universal higher education. Cambridge, July 9, 2020//– Will COVID-19 finally trigger a long-overdue technological disruption of higher education?
COVID-19 Vaccine Trial In South Africa: Everything You Need To Know
A general view during the country’s first human clinical trial for a potential COVID-19 vaccine in Soweto, South Africa. Felix Dlangamandla/Beeld/Gallo Images via Getty Images Shabir Madhi, University of the Witwatersrand July 9, 2020//-There isn’t enough clinical research being done in Africa. Less than 2.5% of all clinical trials in the world are done on […]
Teleworking is Not Working for the Poor, the Young, and the Women
July 8, 2020//-The COVID-19 pandemic is devastating labor markets across the world. Tens of millions of workers lost their jobs, millions more out of the labor force altogether, and many occupations face an uncertain future.
Africa Can Draw Lessons From the UAE’s Response to COVID-19
July 8, 2020//-The UAE’s predominantly urban population presented one risk. Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah would seem to be the perfect environment for a contagious virus to spread quickly. Added to this was the even greater threat presented by the country’s world-leading aviation and logistics industry.
Global Experts Call for a Radical Health Policy Shift in Post COVID-19 Africa
Abidjan, Ivory Coast, July 7, 2020/ — Global health experts and practitioners at a policy webinar hosted by the African Development Institute (ADI) called for a “Marshall Plan on Inclusive Health in Africa.”
Voter Registration In Ghana: CODEO Worried Over Laxities in Respect for COVID-19 Protocols
Accra, Ghana, July 8, 2020//-The Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) is worried that there are some levels of laxities in the respect for the COVID-19 health and safety protocols, particularly the lack of social distancing at some centers of the ongoing Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) exercise in the country.
Pressure Is On To Develop a COVID-19 Vaccine, But Corners Can’t Be Cut
A researcher wearing a face mask and gloves as a preventive measure inside a laboratory. Chaiwat Subprasom/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Arinola O. Ganiyu, University of Ibadan July 8, 2020//-The advent of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and the dynamics of its spread is unprecedented. It is therefore, of paramount importance […]