Thirty-six new applications and tasks from the GEF household of funds will profit 59 nations, together with 21 Small Islands Growing States and 21 Least Developed International locations. PHOTO/GEF. By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT newshub@eyewitness.africa The International Atmosphere Facility (GEF) has introduced the approval of greater than $372 million in new funding to implement 36 progressive applications…
EU responds to Washington Put up report on the bloc funding migrant abuse in North Africa European funds have been used to coach personnel and purchase tools for items implicated in desert dumps and human rights abuses, finds the investigation. Morocco, Tunisia, and Mauritania have but to deal with this latest investigation formally. [Getty] The…
Her Initiative, a Tanzanian group targeted on empowering girls economically, has been awarded the distinguished 2023-2024 Africa Prize by the King Baudouin Basis. Based in 2019, Her Initiative is youth-first and women-led, aiming to equip younger girls with schooling, abilities, and sources obligatory for financial participation. They make use of modern approaches such because the…
The StopEACOP Marketing campaign has criticized Normal Financial institution, Africa’s largest lender, for its determination to supply monetary assist to the controversial East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) mission. The $5 billion mission, led by TotalEnergies, goals to move crude oil from Uganda’s oil fields to a terminal in Tanga, Tanzania. The marketing campaign alleges that…
DAKAR – The United Nations World Meals Programme (WFP) is ramping up its lifesaving meals and diet help programme in West and Central Africa, focusing on 7.3 million folks throughout the ongoing June-August lean season – when meals shares run out and starvation peaks. The programme – which kicks off in June – helps nationwide…
Many programmes of the East African Group (EAC) have stalled previously few months attributable to a money crunch blamed on non-remittance of dues amounting to about $40 million by companion States. By press time, among the regional physique’s staff had been but to be paid their Might 2024 salaries, and quite a few organs and…
The East African Court docket of Justice (EACJ) has suspended its operations for June, having been hit by monetary woes rising from delayed remittances from East African Group accomplice states. Identical to the Court docket, the East African Legislative Meeting (EALA) – one other regional organ which can be affected by lack of funding –…
The Lighthouse Studies stated it interviewed greater than 50 black migrants – all of them from sub-Saharan Africa and West Africa – who had been expelled from the three nations. The report additionally cited two EU sources who acknowledged it was “inconceivable” to completely account for a way the funding from Brussels was getting used….
By LUKE ANAMI Kenya has secured a dedication from China’s Exim Financial institution for the funding of the usual gauge railway line from Naivasha to the Uganda border. Kipchumba Murkomen, Kenya’s Cupboard Secretary of Roads and Transport, mentioned that Pan-African lender African Growth Financial institution and Kenya’s personal Railway Growth Fund would complement the Chinese…