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World Bank releases $200 million for off-grid energy access in West Africa

The World Bank Group has approved a $200m fund to implement the Regional Off-Grid Electrification Project (ROGEP) in West Africa and Sahel region. The fund includes $150 million in the form of credit and grant from the International Development Association (IDA) and $74.7 million contingent recovery grant from the Clean Technology Fund. ROGEP primarily seeks […]

Tunisia: Opposition figure Jaouhar Ben Mbarek begins hunger strike over trial conditions

Jaouhar Ben Mbarek, a prominent opposition figure in Tunisia, has started a hunger strike to protest his exclusion from his own trial proceedings. Arrested in February 2023 over alleged state conspiracy charges, Ben Mbarek is one of dozens of political figures, journalists, and activists who have been detained in a crackdown on dissent under President […]

Brazil: A new policy of “positive discrimination” in universities

Brazilian universities are required as of this academic year to devote an increased percentage of their admission capacity to poor students enrolled in public schools and to increase the number of university students of African descent. This new policy of “affirmative action” or “positive discrimination” as it is sometimes called is stipulated in a new […]