Africa

Download logoThe Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah led by Consul General Edgar Tomas Q. Auxilian, together with the Officers and Staff of the Consulate and the Migrant Workers Office in Jeddah met and greeted another batch of 10 Filipino evacuees (including one infant) who arrived at the King Faisal Naval Base and the King Abdullah Air Base on 27 April 2023 form the Port … [Read more...] about Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah Welcomes another Batch of Evacuees from Port Sudan

Download logoFund gender data. Use gender data. This was the parting shot from Papa Seck, Chief Statistician at UN Women during a keynote address at a recent all-Africa forum on gender data. More than 120 public policy analysts and gender data practitioners from 30 African countries had convened in Nairobi, Kenya in September 2022 for the Africa Gender Statistics … [Read more...] about From Dakar to Nairobi and the length of Africa: A clarion call to increase the production and use of gender data as a key to improving the lives of women and girls

The Milken Institute (https://apo-opa.info/3NsBIy2) and the Motsepe Foundation (https://www.MotsepeFoundation.org/) today announced the winners of the Milken-Motsepe Prize in AgriTech (https://MilkenMotsepePrize.org/), the first of a series of multiyear, multimillion-dollar innovation competitions and programs to advance technological progress toward the UN Sustainable … [Read more...] about The Milken Institute, Motsepe Foundation Announce Winners of The Milken-Motsepe Prize in Agritech

Download logoImporters increasingly want to trace their food suppliers back to individual farms. That’s a tall order for Ghana’s small farmers, but meeting with local tech companies opened the door to possible solutions. From labourers working under the scorching sun to the personnel at agro-processing and manufacturing companies, most farmwork in Ghana remains … [Read more...] about Digital Farms: Tech Companies Meet Veg Growers