Africa: Addis to Host Innovation Africa Summit
Addis Abeba is to host the 11th Innovation Africa Summit 2013 from March 19 to 21, 2013 for the second consecutive year.
The summit is expected to bring together close to 350 organisations from around the world, including large information and [...]
Ethiopia: UK Company Tasked With Converting Condo Waste Into Electricity
The Ethiopia Power Corporation (EPPCo) has commissioned a study to supply electric power to condominium apartments from the waste that they produce.
The plan envisages each condominium being able to generate its own power.
Cambridge Industries [...]
Rwanda: Life Skills Program for Young Girls to Be Scaled Up
A workshop that brought together the different stakeholders to the 12+ program, which equips young adolescent girls with various life skills, took place this week in Rubavu district with the aim to develop a successful and sustainable scale-up [...]
Cameroon: E.CAM to Encourage Job Creation
An international forum for small enterprises kicks off in Douala on November 17, 2012.
Executive officers of enterprises will receive objective counselling, with the goal to improve productivity, efficiency while encouraging job creation and [...]
Africa’s Jobless Growth?
Africa’s economies are amongst the fastest growing in the world, but growth does not necessarily lead to development.
As China’s economy slows and the major advanced economies struggle to record solid growth, African countries are [...]
Africa: World Needs 3.5 Million Health Workers
The world needs more doctors, nurses and other health care workers – 3.5 million of them, to be exact.
The poor state of human resources in the health care system came under the spotlight at a session at the People’s Health Assembly, [...]
Kenya: Parliament Sets High Bar for Senior Jobs
Last week’s advertisement on senior parliamentary staff vacancies has scored another fast in the implementation of the new constitution. The Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) has appointed Price Water House Coopers (PWC) to undertake [...]
Africa: Homegrown Solutions ‘Crucial to Sustainable Development’
Rio De Janeiro — Nurturing local innovations and technologies – and empowering the creativity of local people – could play a far greater role in helping the world achieve sustainable development, a forum has heard.
There is a [...]
Kenya: Appeal to Tatu City for Jobs
RESIDENTS neighbouring the proposed Tatu City have appealed to the city’s developers to consider sourcing labour from the neighbourhood. Most of the residents have been working as general labourers at the former coffee farm before the [...]
Angola: Over 300 Cartographers Trained in 14 Provinces
Luanda — The National Statistics Institute (INE) has trained so far 340 cartographers from 14 provinces of the country, aimed to update the Angolan cartographic map, Angop has learnt.
According to census technical co-odinator, Paulo Fonseca, [...]
