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U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) announced the first disbursement of a $5 million direct loan to Africa Healthcare Network (AHN), the largest operator of dialysis centers in East Africa. The project is part of DFC’s comprehensive COVID-19 Response through which the agency is mitigating the economic and health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and DFC s
Global Health and Prosperity Initiative, under which the agency is working to strengthen global health systems.
“DFC continues to support global health and sustainable economic growth in developing countries during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond,” said
DFC’s Vice President of the Office of External Affairs and Head of Global Gender Equity Initiatives Algene Sajery. “This investment in AHN will expand access to affordable, high quality healthcare across Sub-Saharan Africa th
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Frank Ferreira is a proud Portuguese American, with dual citizenship, who believes that Portugal’s (including the Açores and Madeira) current electoral system is impractical, injurious, unfair, discriminatory, and unconstitutional for the Portuguese living abroad. In short, what we have is an abridgement of constitutional rights.
Ferreira also believes that the solution is to permit all voters, including those who have emigrated, to vote online, in-person (where practical), and by mail in all elections, like it is allowed currently for the national legislative elections.
According to the Portuguese Constitution, election law requires the in-person, presential vote, as the single method of voting. This requirement prevents millions of Portuguese leaving abroad from exercising their constitutional right to participate in the electoral process.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has proposed updates to the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) for DeKalb County, so the next 90 days are specified for submitting any comments or appeals and to learn about local flood risks and future flood insurance implications.
The preliminary maps may be viewed online at Alabama’s Flood Map Website, https://alabamaflood.com/map, and on the FEMA Flood Map Changes Viewer, http://msc.fema.gov/fmcv.
DeKalb Countyâs preliminary flood insurance rate map was released in September 2020. On Oct. 27, 2020, a preliminary FIRM Community Coordination meeting was held to review the map and discuss updates to local floodplain management ordinance and flood insurance. The new Flood Insurance Rate Map is expected to become effective and flood insurance requirements take effect in Summer 2022.
Kiva Capital Management announces final close of Kiva Refugee Investment Fund to scale lending to fragile communities globally
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/
Kiva Capital Management, the impact-first fund management subsidiary of non-profit Kiva.org, announced today the successful final close of the Kiva Refugee Investment Fund, LLC, a $32.5 million facility to scale lending to fragile communities globally.
Capital from the Kiva Refugee Investment Fund ( KRIF ) will be invested in partnership with microfinance partners across the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. KRIF marks the third impact-first investment vehicle closing for Kiva Capital Management in less than a year, following the successful 2020 debut of the California Rebuilding Fund and the Small Business Resilience Fund.