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Home | News & Events | United States Launches Study Groups Program in Uganda, Supporting Learning Continuity During COVID-19 | April 27, 2021
Kampala, April 27, 2021 – Today, the United States Mission in Uganda launched a study groups program to provide continuity of learning for Ugandan early grade learners who are not able to attend school due to school closures to minimize the spread of COVID-19.
With a goal to tackle the challenges of school closures and support continuity of learning, the study groups program is providing early grade reading materials and instructional support to 17,500 learners in Primary 1 through Primary 4 at home and in community-based study groups. The study groups will help Ugandan children to access learning while schools remain closed and help prepare them for a return to school planned for June.
In An Earth Day Test For Synthetic Biology Field, Zymergen Raises $500 Million In IPO
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The past few years have been boom times for synthetic biology. Today, in a big test for public markets’ appetite for the emerging field, Zymergen raised $500 million in an initial public offering set to value the company at more than $3 billion.
“I love the symbolism that we’re going public on Earth Day,” cofounder and CEO Josh Hoffman told
Forbes in a morning video call. “There’s a bit of luck there, but I’m just super pleased. It is really cool.”
Hoffman, 50, a former McKinsey consultant and Rothschild merchant banker, founded Zymergen in 2013 with two former Amyris execs, Zach Serber, 46, now chief science officer, and Jed Dean, 43, now vp of of operations and engineering. They named it Zymergen as a mash-up of the words zymurgy (the study of fermentation), merge and genomics. Based in Emeryville, California, a hotspot for biology startups, the
Kenyan Delegation in Kampala to End Row With Uganda
President Uhuru Kenyatta (left) and President Yoweri Museveni during a past summit in Uganda.
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The Kenyan government has sent a high-power delegation to Kampala to resolve a protracted trade row regarding export and import duty charges on frequently used commodities.
The delegation will inspect Uganda s sugar processing plants to verify the claims that President Yoweri Museveni s country imports sugar from Brazil and repackages it to sell to Kenya.
The delegation team, formed through the Ministry of Trade, seeks to erase the allegations and find ways to improve bilateral trade between the two countries.
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