Nominate a successful woman entrepreneur for the UWEAL Business Achievers Awards. Nominations are due by 15 November 2011 in the following catergories: T. Mbiire Award for Woman Entrepreneur of the Year This Award will be given to a woman who has successfully started and continues to run a growing and profitable business venture. The business […]
New Report Launched as Caravan of Hope Sets Off Through Southern Africa to UN Climate Summit in Durban Report at this link: http://www.christianaid.org.uk/low-carbon-africa Sub-Saharan Africa has massive potential to generate clean energy that could help lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty without exacerbating climate change, a new Christian Aid report says […]
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia—High-level policymakers, leading academics, and representatives from farmer and trader organizations and the private sector will gather here to identify investment priorities and policy options that can help increase agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa, thereby reducing rural poverty, hunger, and malnutrition in the region. The November 1–3 conference “Increasing Agricultural Productivity and Enhancing […]
Since April 2011, activists for change (A4C) have been campaigning against government’s failure to manage rising cost of living, inflation and wastage of public resources which affect every Ugandan. Protesters from all walks of life including students to elderly citizens, ordinary working people to opposition party leaders, parliamentarians, lawyers, traders, civil society etc came out […]
News Release: Governments are ignoring a vast store of knowledge — generated over thousands of years — that could protect food supplies and make agriculture more resilient to climate change, says a briefing published today by the International Institute for Environment and Development. It urges negotiators at the UN climate change conference in Durban later […]
31 October 2011 – Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) is pleased to announce that new Production Sharing Contract (PSC) arrangements have been agreed with the Government of Mauritania and its Joint Venture partners. These arrangements will enable the Group to progress the appraisal and development of existing discoveries and pursue exploration in a new contract area […]
8th Annual Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC) ” href=”http://www.foster.washington.edu/centers/gbc/globalsocialentrepreneurshipcompetition/Pages/guidelines.aspx” target=”_blank”>GSEC invites students around the world – across disciplines and levels of study to submit innovative business solutions to poverty in developing countries.15-20 student teams from around the globe will be invited to Seattle for GSEC Week 2012 (Feb. 27 – Mar. 2), where they present to 400+ professionals, and […]
The Academic Registrar, Makerere University would like to announce the Mature Age Entry Scheme Examinations for the Academic Year 2012/2013, due to be held Saturday 28th January 2012.To be eligible, candidates must be at least 25years old before 1st August 2012. Applications for all intending candidates are available in Room 505, Senate Building and should […]
Key speakers at the United Nations conference in the Republic of Korea on combating desertification today stressed that restoring degraded lands is crucial to addressing some global challenges, including poverty, food scarcity and the loss of the world’s biodiversity. “If we protect, restore and manage land and soils we can tackle many challenges simultaneously, such […]
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is pleased to open the 2011 UNEP Young Environmental Journalist Award. Following the successful launch of the competition last year, African journalists between 21 and 35 years, who are based on the continent and working for local, regional or international media organizations, are once again encouraged to apply. Journalists […]