The Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) brings together entrepreneurs and investors from across Africa and around the world annually to showcase innovative projects, exchange new ideas, and help spur economic opportunity. With Nairobi as the host city, the 2015 GES agenda focused on generating new investments for entrepreneurs, with a particular focus on women and youth.…
Written by Tobias Denskus – reblogged from http://aidnography.blogspot.de. It was coincidence that the #HackingTeam story broke while I was drafting this post. In one way, these two posts are very much unrelated, but in other ways there is a narrative that binds them together: While ‘digital development’, ICT4D and ICT4Bad happen right here and now, the German ministry…
The theme of the Summit is: “Year of Women Empowerment and Development towards Africa’s Agenda 2063” Specific dates for the meetings of the different AU organs and decision-making bodies during the Summit will be as follows: Sunday 7 and Monday 8 June 2015: Thirtieth (30th) Ordinary Session of the Permanent Representatives Committee (PRC) Venue: O.R.…
Originally published at ted.com/talks/boniface_mwangi. Photographer Boniface Mwangi wanted to protest against corruption in his home country of Kenya. So he made a plan: He and some friends would stand up and heckle during a public mass meeting. But when the moment came … he stood alone. What happened next, he says, showed him who he truly was.…
By Judyannet Muchiri, NAYD Social Media Editor. When 147 young people die in a single day there is a problem. When these people are shot to their deaths there is an even bigger problem. This is what happened in Garissa University College where militants broke into the university and injured and killed students. To start…
More than infrastructure, it is political will that boosts regional integration in Africa. Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank (AfDB). The 2014 edition of the African Development Bank’s African Development Report, on the theme of “Regional integration at the service of inclusive growth”, was officially launched Tuesday, December 16 at the Bank’s headquarters…
– Originally published on Oct 27,2014 by Beatrice Ndung’u on her Facebook profile. Dear Mr. President, and Mr. Former Acting President / Deputy President, I hope you are both well. I am writing this letter on behalf of young Kenyans, especially young talented Kenyans who are NOT born in wealth. Recently we saw a tragic story…
Also published on africanleadership.co.uk. Liberian President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has written a letter to the world to ask for help in putting an end to the Ebola outbreak which has brought her country to its knees. The current outbreak has been described by the World Health Organization as the worst ever and it has claimed the lives of over…
Friends of Lake Turkana (FoLT), is a grassroots organization founded in 2009 whose mission is to foster social, economic and environmental justice in the Lake Turkana Basin. This is through: Protect and conserve Lake Turkana, the Lake Turkana Basin and its environment. Advocate for the rights of the Turkana Basin communities, Increase the participation of…
President Ernest Bai Koroma Addresses the Nation of Sierra Leone. Find the original post on the statehouse’s website. Fellow Sierra Leoneans, Our country is in the midst of a big trial. But by the grace of God, we shall overcome this Ebola outbreak. Many of our people have fallen victims to this disease. It was…
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