The Board of Governors is pleased to announce that following an international search process that engaged hundreds of internal and external constituents, Dr. Wisdom Tettey has been appointed Carleton University's 17th President and Vice-Chancellor. Dr. Tettey joins Carleton from the University of Toronto, where he currently serves as a Vice-President and has been Principal of the Scarborough campus since 2018. “I am delighted to welcome Dr. Tettey to Carleton,” said Greg Farrell, chair of the Board of Governors. “Dr. Tettey is an inclusive and authentic leader who will build on the universit ..read more

To strengthen regional cross-border Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) readiness during public health emergencies, Africa CDC, UNICEF, IFRC, and WHO (the Collective Service core partners) as well as IOM, READY and the UK-PHRST, organized a simulation-based training from 15th to 19th April 2024 in Mombasa, Kenya. This training aims to bolster cross-border RCCE for coordinated emergency preparedness and response in the region. Participating countries include Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Given the interconnectivity and the frequent emergen ..read more

Artificial intelligence (AI) could create a turning point for financial inclusion in Africa By Lillian Barnard, President of Microsoft Africa (www.Microsoft.com). It's difficult to imagine a time before the widespread adoption of mobile technology in Africa – particularly where financial services are concerned. For millions of unbanked people, transactions were limited to cash, postal services or even the barter system. Now, in much the same way as mobile payments completely disrupted the status quo, AI has the potential to propel the fintech industry into a new era of financial inclusion. A ..read more

María Pilar Nsue Angüe Osa (1945 or 1950 – 18 January 2017) was a noted Equatoguinean writer and Minister of Education and Culture. Background and early life María was born in Bidjabidjan, Río Muni. Her family immigrated to Spain when she was a child where she studied literature. Born to ethnic Fang parents, she emigrated with her family to Spain when she was only eight years old. In narrating her own life, Maria Nsue often underscored the primal and formative impact of colonial interventions. She claimed to have been born in jail, in 1948, in the city of Bata, where her parents had been con ..read more

George Elliot Clarke is a renowned Canadian poet, playwright, and literary critic from Windsor, Nova Scotia. In 2001, he won the Governor General's Award for Poetry and the Trudeau Fellow Prize in 2017. His work is deeply rooted in his African Nova Scotian heritage, and he often draws on historical events and figures to examine the complex experiences of Black people in Canada. He served as the Poet Laureate of Toronto from 2012 to 2015. Aside from his poetry and writing, Clarke has also been a significant voice in Canadian literary criticism, particularly in African Canadian literature and ..read more

Sierra Leonean African Leadership University student pioneers AI-powered robotic solution to drive environmental compliance as world leaders assess progress toward achieving SDGs As world leaders gear up for UN Sustainability Week, one young Sierra Leonean entrepreneur at African Leadership University has developed a cutting-edge solution for promoting environmental compliance, and advancing global progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. African Leadership University (ALU) student Abdul Karim Sesay – who has created an innovative solution harnessing sensor technologies ..read more

Statement by Kristalina Georgieva on her Second Term as IMF Managing Director April 12. “I am deeply grateful for the trust and support of the Fund's Executive Board, representing our 190 members, and honored to continue to lead the IMF as Managing Director for a second five-year term. “In recent years, the IMF has helped our member countries to navigate successive shocks, including the pandemic, war and conflicts, and a cost-of-living crisis. We also stepped up our work on climate change, fragility and conflict, and the digital transition, in line with their increased significance for macro ..read more

By Niluka Kavanagh, Founder @ ImagineThat | Building The World's First Business School for Digital Nomads Creator, Speaker, Marketer To celebrate the launch of ImagineThat, I thought I would hold a little launch party with one of the sky bars here in Da Nang. It saw a range of digital nomads, entrepreneurs and other professionals come together and have a lot of fun. The thing this group had in common? They all have a level of location freedom and can work from anywhere. So not only was it a great way to launch ImagineThat and share it with some of the community here… it was also a symbolic m ..read more

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One of the most effective ways of getting started in exporting is through a business trip, to better understand a target market and to make contacts. Thanks to the Netherlands Trust Fund V (NTF V) project at the International Trade Centre (ITC), a dozen small Senegalese tech companies traveled to Conakry from 20-24 November to seize new business opportunities. For Cheikh Sy, head of digital services company YOWIT, this business trip came at just the right time. ‘We already had a customer in Guinea, but we didn't have enough time to look for new prospects. NTF V took care of scheduling around ..read more