Tunisian women lead UNESCO’s rating of African and Arab women participation in scientific research as 55.1 per cent of Tunisian researchers are female; the largest proportion in Africa and in the Arab world. The rating, based on UN branch’s Institute for Statistics (UIS) June 2020 data, credits the North African country with the best […]
Gabon has converted $163 million, a third of its debt, into funds to protect its oceans, US-based NGO The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the Government of the central African country said Tuesday August 15. The swap operation marks “the start of a 15-year conservation project… to help Gabon finance ocean protection and management for 30 […]
Janet Yellen, the United States Secretary of the Treasury, will undertake mid-January a trip to Sub Sahara Africa following the U.S-Africa summit during which President Joe Biden pledged a win-win partnership in reaction to Russia’s and China’s growing presence in Africa. The former Chair of the Federal Reserve, according to her department, will visit South […]
