Taiwan, CAFRA to Promote Women Empowerment

Taiwan, CAFRA to Promote Women Empowerment

On Wednesday, September 28, 2022, representatives from the Taiwan Technical Mission (TTM) and the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action (CAFRA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote women empowerment. The Ministry of Commerce facilitated the signing ceremony for the MoU between the TTM and CAFRA, towards the implementation of a “Women’s Economic […]

CDB, CARICOM & THE OECS Commission Launch Teacher Training Program to Tackle COVID Learning Loss

CDB, CARICOM & THE OECS Commission Launch Teacher Training Program to Tackle COVID Learning Loss

15,000 educators across the region, will have the opportunity to benefit from capacity building in key components of the Learning Recovery and Enhancement Program (Let’s REAP) for Caribbean Schools, an intervention designed to address the learning loss that occurred or worsened due to COVID-19. Launched in July 2021, Let’s REAP was developed by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB),  […]

Somalia on the Brink of Famine: Aid Efforts Risk Failing Marginalized Communities Yet Again

Somalia on the Brink of Famine: Aid Efforts Risk Failing Marginalized Communities Yet Again

Refugee camp, hundreds of thousands of difficult conditions, Somali immigrants are staying. African people waiting to get in the water. August 06, 2011 in Dadaab, Somalia. (Shutterstock) By Nisar Majid, The Conversation Somalia is facing a humanitarian crisis of enormous severity and magnitude. This follows four failed rainy seasons, protracted conflict, political instability and the […]

President Putin’s Actions are Jeopardizing Economic Peace and Growth: The World Should Say “No More”

President Putin’s Actions are Jeopardizing Economic Peace and Growth: The World Should Say “No More”

Kyiv, Ukraine – January 10, 2022: Girl with political banner “Say No To Putin” at winter street protest rally. By Sir Ronald Sanders “Every bullet, every bomb, every shell that hits a target in Ukraine, hits our pockets and our economies in Africa.” Those were the words of the President of Ghana, Akufo-Addo, at the […]