Daily Monitor
Saturday May 22 2021
Businesswomen under Uganda Small Scale Industries Association (USSIA) pose for a group photo after attending one of the financial training sessions that took place on the March 3, in Kampala. PHOTO/courtesy.
Summary
Partner states discovered that limited access to information on business, opportunities, networks and access to market are reasons why businesses owned by women are not thriving across the continent.
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The 50 Million African Women Speak Networking Platform Project (50 MAWS project) platform aims at empowering women economically through a networking financial platform. Women in business will access information and financial services.
Specifically, the platform will improve the ability of women entrepreneurs to network and exchange information as well as access information on financial and non-financial services.
ECOWAS - Economic Community of West African States (via Public) / ECOWAS Holds Consultation and Orientation Workshop for the Reconstitution of the Council of the Wise
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Communique of the 996th meeting of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union on the consideration of the Report of the Fact Finding Mission to the Republic of Chad, 14 May 2021
Format
Adopted by the Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU) at its 996th meeting held on 14 May 2021, on the consideration of the Report of the Fact Finding Mission to the Republic of Chad, in line with communique [PSC/BR/COMM.2(CMXCIII)], adopted at its 993rd meeting held on 22 April 2021,
The Peace and Security Council,
Recalling its previous decision on the situation in Chad, namely; communique [PSC/BR/COMM.2(CMXCIII)], adopted at its 993rd meeting held on 22 April 2021, to constitute and undertake an AU Fact Finding Mission to the Republic of Chad;
Background
The Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS) of Addis Ababa University is a prominent Institute for higher education, research and policy dialogues on peace and security in Africa. Established in 2007, it ranks among the top 46 educational establishments and think tanks in Sub-Saharan Africa, according to the Global Go to Think Tank Index Reports. IPSS serves as the Secretariat of the Tana High-Level Forum on Security in Africa and was also selected as the Center of Excellence for Post Conflict Societies by the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) in 2017. Moreover, the Institute runs the Africa Peace and Security Programme (APSP), a joint initiative with the African Union, which is mandated by the African Union’s Executive Council to take up the intellectual challenge of finding African-led solutions to peace and security in Africa. IPSS intends to make a substantive contribution to the contemporary discourse on peace and security on the African contine