Oseyiza Oogbodo Blog

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is concerned by a fast-developing humanitarian situation in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo sparked by mass returns from Angola over the last two weeks.

Payette The Canada Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, has announced that Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette, Governor General of Canada, will visit Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, and Nigeria from October 23 to 30, 2018.

Africa Oil Week (Africa-OilWeek.com), the leading international oil and gas event set to take place in Cape Town, South Africa 5 – 9 November 2018 will build on 25 years of success by adding a host of sessions and initiatives tailored towards driving transactions, deal-making and new partnerships.

EPIC-Africa ( www.EPIC-Africa.org ) and Rockefeller Foundation (https://www.RockefellerFoundation.org/) have launched the call for applications for the first African Civil Society Organization Excellence Awards (http://Awards.EPIC-Africa.org/).

Two University of Pretoria (UP) students, Simon Motshweni, and Simon Botha, have won the Moot

Kenyatta Africa needs to prepare and speak with one voice at COP 24, Katowice, Poland, in December, Kenya’s Environment and Forestry Minister, Keriako Tobiko, declared at the opening of the Seventh Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA – VII) conference in Nairobi.

Arsenal FC (www.Arsenal.com) and its official online money transfer partner, WorldRemit (https://www.WorldRemit.com/), have announced that Hamisi Mohamed from Nairobi, Kenya has won the public vote determining the winner of their Future Stars programme.

UNAIDS has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of National Defence and Reconstruction of the Army, the Ministry of Health and Population and the National AIDS Committee of the Central African Republic to reduce new HIV infections within the military and other uniformed personnel, reduce sexual violence and abuse by security and defence forces and increase uptake of HIV treatment, care and support services.

The South Africa Minister of Communications, Nomvula Mokonyane, has extended a congratulatory message to the producers, actors and actresses and crew of Uzalo on the soap opera becoming the first South Africa television show to clock the 10 million viewers mark in South African television history, a rating higher even than the SABC news.

Africa Finance Corporation (www.AfricAFC.org), the leading infrastructure development finance institution in Africa, has announced its successful acquisition of a loan facility from the Export-Import Bank of China of a US$200m 5-year loan and a US$100m 5-year stand-by facility for general corporate purpose.