US-Africa Synergy

03/29/2018

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03/29/2018

03/16/2018

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A team of management of WORLD BANK, today led by The Managing Director of the World Bank, Ms. Sri Mulyani Indrawati,, presented the ‘TECHNOLOGY FOR CHANGE’ concept, under the World bank Empowerment…

03/16/2018

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Building today, a better Africa tomorrow

12/15/2015

Morocco is preparing to launch its first solar power plant. The country is seeking to increase its renewable energy production to 42 percent of its total power needs by 2020 with what it claims will be the world's largest solar power production facility.

OUARZAZATE (Morocco), Dec 14, 2015: On the edge of the Sahara desert, engineers make final checks to a sea of metal mirrors turned towards the sun, preparing for the launch of Morocco’s first solar power plant. The ambitious project is part of the North African country’s goal of boosting its clean e…

12/15/2015

"With up to 70% of women using skin lightening creams in parts of Africa, Cote d’Ivoire has led the charge in tackling skin lighteners and has banned the practise nationally. It is time for the rest of the continent to follow."

The motivation for using skin lighteners is linked to colonial history.

12/03/2015

Siza Mzimela, a South African entrepreneur, is the first black woman to start an airline, called Fly Blue Crane that she launched in September. It has two 50-seat aircrafts and also provides underserved South African communities with affordable flights.

"It's taken us a good 18 months to get to our first flight, which was on the first of September, but indeed, a lot of people just assume it happened overnight," Mzimela said. "I've always been passionate in using the airline to open the routes and actually grow the economies of the smaller towns."

This South African entrepreneur is revolutionizing the travel industry.

11/21/2015

Bharti Airtel Africa has launched a new service called "Tap2Pay" that allows content providers and merchants to utilize Airtel's billing infrastructure to charge and bill their customers.

11/21/2015

Eritrean-American Haben Girma, 27, is Harvard Law School's first deaf-blind graduate. She spoke with U.S. President Barack Obama using a digital device that displays Braille characters at a White House ceremony celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Haben Girma was born deaf-blind but she had access to opportunities afforded by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Girma is Harvard Law School’s first deaf-blind graduate and her academic achieve…

11/21/2015

On Thursday, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi signed a nuclear power plant deal with Russia, days after Russia vowed to avenge the terrorist bombing of a Russia airliner that blew up over the Sinai, killing all 224 passengers and crew on board.

The head of Russia's state-owned nuclear firm Rosatom called the deal "the largest Russian-Egyptian project since the Aswan dam."

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi signed a nuclear power plant deal with Russia Thursday, just days after the Kremlin's unilateral announcement that the Russian charter flight which blew up over Sinai late October was downed by an act of terrorism.

11/16/2015

UNICEF said that some 11 million children are at risk of disease, water shortages and hunger due to the El Nino phenomenon, but the Ethiopian government is rejecting claims that the drought will bring the nation back to the famine levels of 1984, according to the BBC.

Some 11 million children are at risk from hunger and disease in east and southern Africa as El Nino causes drought and flooding, the UN says.