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Bahrain’s Labour Fund Tamkeen has approved over 9,300 proposals and extended funding support worth BD39 million ($103.47 million) ever since it launched 16 programmes as part of its 2021-2025 strategy this year.

The President of the African Development Bank, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, says the Africa continent is not getting enough resources to tackle climate change as it gets only 3 per cent of total global climate finance. This situation, he said, would lead to a shortfall of about $100 billion to $127…

By Renwick Rose on behalf of the Grouping of Civil Society Organisations SIS. JUDY Williams - a national and regional civil society leader and icon, a champion of the marginalised and dispossessed- transitioned on Thursday, April 21st. Judy was the secretary-general of the Grenada Community Development Agency (GRENCODA) and also convenor of the Grouping of Civil Society Organisations. Judy dedicated her life to improving the welfare of the disadvantaged and …

“When we left, the island probably lost more than we did. Because they lost a whole family. Gone.”

Professor Camena Gunaratne has said that there was not enough focus in Sri Lanka on the various national plans on internal trafficking of women into working as sex workers and child labour. She said so at the Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA’s) open forum recently that essentially dealt with issues pertaining to victims of human […]

Mubadala Investment Company PJSC (Mubadala) and G42, the leading UAE-based AI and cloud computing company, signed an agreement to establish a world-class biopharmaceutical manufacturing campus (Biopharma Campus) in Abu Dhabi that will tap into global state-of-the-art vaccine and therapeutic products ..

ABU DHABI, 22nd December, 2021 (WAM) -- Mubadala Investment Company PJSC (Mubadala) and G42, the leading UAE-based AI and cloud computing company, signed an agreement to establish a world-class biopharmaceutical manufacturing campus (Biopharma Campus) in Abu Dhabi that will tap into global state-of-the-art vaccine and therapeutic products to strengthen regional supply chains, and drive forward the nation’s diversification and economic growth agenda. The Biopharma Campus will invest in and ...

Exasperation with Credit Suisse following a string of scandals is prompting Switzerland to rethink a system in which top bankers have been largely untouchable.

United Bank for Africa (UBA), and Deutsche Investitions-und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH, a German development finance institution, have signed a $50 million Term Facility Agreement. The facility with a tenor of six years is targeted at supporting the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and family owned businesses in Nigeria. Twitter ban: Don’t access social media via VPN, […]

Friday, 28 May 2021 02:13 PM MYT Exasperation with Credit Suisse following a string of scandals is prompting Switzerland to rethink a system in which top bankers have been largely untouchable. — Reuters pic Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. FRANKFURT, May 28 — Exasperation with Credit Suisse following a string of scandals is prompting Switzerland to rethink a system in which top bankers have been largely untouchable. Credit Suisse’s heavy l...