Bamako, 14 May, 2021: The 21st edition of the Bamako Forum will take place this year from 20 to 22 May in Bamako, Mali, on the theme: “Sustainable development and human capital: results and operational priorities for the Transition in Mali”. On the margins of the Bamako Forum, UNFPA is organizing a special session on […]
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What: Roundtable on scaling up financing for youth and innovation in Africa Who: The African Development Bank When: 17 May 2021, 11:00 to 12:00 Paris time / 9:00 to 10:00 GMT Where: Virtual – via Zoom and live streaming On 17 May 2021 the President of the African Development Bank, Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina, will […]
Lagos, Nigeria — 560,000 individuals, predominantly youth and women, will have access to dignified and fulfilling work by 2022, through the Mastercard Foundation Young Africa Works in Nigeria partnership with Babban Gona. Recognizing that employment is a pathway out of poverty, the partnership seeks to empower individuals in the agricultural value chain and support the […]
With barely ten days to go on the one-month ultimatum issued by the Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, to the federal government to inaugurate a substantive board for the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, the youth group says there is no going back on its threat to shut down activities at the Commission. Recall that the […]
Controversial Islamic cleric, Ahmad Gumi, says the students of Greenfield University kidnapped about two months ago have not been released because their kidnappers have links with Boko Haram. Mr Gumi said this in an interview with Channels Television on Sunday from Kaduna. The kidnappers had attacked the private university on April 17 and abducted 20 […]
Giring community in the Abattoir area of Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State, on Friday became volatile as youths wanted to burn down the police station over what they termed injustice meted on them. This incident is, however, different from the various ongoing attacks on police formations in the country, especially in the […]
The body of a boy estimated to be five years old was recovered from a well at Onekaydi village in the Ohangwena region on Tuesday. According to the police, a young woman who went to draw water from the well on Tuesday afternoon found a plastic bag floating in the well and detected a foul […]
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Zimbabwe: Abuse of ‘Mutoriro’ Increases
Senior Court Reporter Over 30 percent of the young population is reportedly abusing the crystal methamphetamine, commonly referred to as mutoriro, gukafella, ice or glass in street lingo, a court heard yesterday. Dr Clancy Taiwa Nyamakure, a medical practitioner and forensic tests expert, who is also serving as Assistant Commissioner in the Zimbabwe Republic Police, […]
Lagos, Nigeria – 30 April 2021 — Officially launched today, the new Learn at Home audio e-learning platform will provide free, online, and unlimited learning access to more than 100 million Nigerian youths. This first-of-its-kind audio e-learning platform will offer unlimited access based on the national mobile phone penetration, low-data, and basic featurephone requirements. The […]
In this interview with “The 77 Percent”, musician-turned-opposition leader Bobi Wine explains why the African youth are the drivers of political change and his hope for the future. DW Interviewed Ugandan opposition leader, Bobi Wine. Here is the transcript. Liz Shoo: Well, the man you just heard, Bobi Wine, is joining me live from Uganda. […]
Beirut — Human Rights Watch Introduces Country Index Based on Laws, Policies Governments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) should outlaw the violent discipline of children, Human Rights Watch said today, introducing an index categorizing countries in the region based on their laws and policies. The MENA region has some of the highest […]
Information Deputy Minister Kindness Paradza is in the eye of a raging storm after an armed gang linked to the Zanu PF politician fought running battles against fellow party youths in Chinhoyi Saturday. Paradza is the Zanu PF district coordinating committee (DCC) chairperson for Makonde where he is also the local MP. The bloody clashes […]
The young environmentalists are looking for a seat at the table when decisions are being made about their futures as climate impacts worsen across the continent LONDON, May 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Young African environmental activists said Saturday it is crucial those most impacted by climate change have a bigger say in decision-making to […]
Nine students from different African universities were winners of a competition on nuclear energy. Namibian students also took part in the sixth annual competition organised by the Russian state Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom. The winners of the online video competition is titled ‘Atoms Empowering Africa’ were announced at the special online awards ceremony this week. […]
The locally published story books worth 144 million FCFA were donated to 148 nursery and elementary schools in the Adamawa, East and North Regions by the American government under the McGovern-Dole Food for Education and Child Nutrition Programme. The Government of the United States of America, through the United States Department of Agriculture, USDA, is […]
At least 21 400 schoolgirls from Mashonaland West province have so far received sanitary wear and soap tablets from the Government through the Primary and Secondary Education Ministry. Government has also availed over $15,8 million to the province towards the procurement and distribution of the second batch of sanitary wear. Over 58 900 primary school […]
Abuja, Kaduna — The federal government yesterday expressed its commitment to do all it could to save the remaining 16 students of Greenfield University, Kaduna, whose abductors have threatened to kill for the delay in ransoming them. At a press conference in Abuja where he faulted the recommendations by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in […]
ZANU-PF youths in Manicaland province are reportedly eyeing Headlands farms allocated to party bigwigs in the constituency, among them former Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa and former Agriculture minister Joseph Made, which they claim are oversized. Chinamasa is now the Zanu PF national finance secretary while Made was ousted in 2017 following the removal of now […]