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Speakers: Ms. Noriko Yoshida, UNHCR Representative in Sudan, H.E. Hideki Ito, Japanese Ambassador to Sudan, Mr. Hamad El-Gizouli, the Commissioner for Refugees.
Place: White Nile Conference Room at UNHCR’s Office in Khartoum (Ahmed Kheir St.; near to Ozone)
Date/time: Thursday 6th April 2017 at 01:00 pm (event will be thirty minutes)
Background: The people and Government of Japan is granting UNHCR over USD 2.5 million to support the response to the South Sudanese refugees in Sudan, particularly in White Nile State, and East and South Darfur. In addition, there is support for internally displaced persons in Sudan.
The Japanese Ambassador, UNHCR Representative and the Commissioner for Refugees will make short statements followed by 15 minutes of questions and answers.
Registration and other important details for media for accessing UNHCR:
In order to gain access to UNHCR’s compound, you are requested to register the names of media participants ahead of the event. There will be no admittance for journalists or their crews that have not registered ahead of time. Interested media, please contact Mr. Mohamed El-Fatih Elnaiem :(elnaiem@unhcr.org) – Tel. 0912308842.
Please note, no vehicles will be allowed to enter the compound due to limited space available. Media with equipment will need to enter through the reception area facing Ahmed Kheir Street.
The press briefing will start at 1pm. Media are requested to arrive between 12.15-12.45 to set up their equipment. No further entry will be allowed into UNHCR after 12.45.
Distributed by APO on behalf of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
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Sun Chaser Solar Powered Car on Display at American Corner at Sammy Marks Square, Pretoria:
The U.S. Embassy in Pretoria invites you to an exhibition of the Sun Chaser solar powered car on Wednesday, April 5 at 14:00 in Sammy Marks Square in Pretoria. Designed and built by engineering students at Tshwane University of Technology, this car successfully used solar power to traverse over 2000 kilometers of South Africa in eight days during the #SasolSolarChallenge 2016.
The solar car exhibition is part of the ongoing collaboration between the U.S. Embassy’s American Corner Pretoria, Tshwane University of Technology, the City of Tshwane, and Sammy Marks Square. The American Corner has hosted a three-part series around the YALI Network course: Understanding Renewable Energy (https://yali.state.gov/courses/energy). The discussions have been led by Mandela Washington Fellowship alum, Morwesi Ramonyai, Managing Director of Borena Energy and Thuba Moyo, CEO of Kodo Energy Limited. Participants looked at how existing power systems work and can be adapted to a renewable energy future and how renewable energy creates new opportunities and jobs for many different sectors.
The American Corner Pretoria is located at the Es’kia Mphalele Community Library in Sammy Marks Square. The American Corner provides high-speed Internet access and state of the art equipment together with print and digital resources to promote research, professional development and personal enrichment.
Distributed by APO on behalf of U.S. Embassy Pretoria, South Africa.
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President Zuma to convene 3rd Presidential Local Government Summit:
President Jacob Zuma will on Thursday, 06 April 2017, convene the 3rd Presidential Local Government Summit in Midrand, Johannesburg, under the theme “Transforming Municipal Spaces for Radical Social and Economic Development”.
The two day summit is convened to provide strategic direction for the new term of local government and discuss a focused action plan that would help transform local government to ensure radical socioeconomic transformation in line with the Back to Basics Programme (B2B).
The summit will review progress made towards strengthening the system of local government based on reflections of the successes and challenges of the B2B approach which is a building block for what the National Development Plan defines as developmental local governance. The summit will further launch the Back to Basics programme’s second phase which will focus, amongst others, reconfiguration of the district system to augment regional economic development, regional infrastructure planning and delivery, as well as spatial transformation.
President Zuma initiated the Presidential Local Government Summit in 2009 to provide a platform wherein the President engages with the leadership of all three spheres of government on developmental programmes that would help address challenges facing municipalities in a quest to improve service delivery.
The details of the summit are as follows:
Date: Thursday, 06 April 2017
Time: 09h00
Venue: Gallagher Convention Centre, Midrand, Johannesburg
Distributed by APO on behalf of Republic of South Africa: The Presidency.
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