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Infrastructure Fund Africa50 helps Egypt’s Solar Power Sector take off

Africa50 is an independent infrastructure fund, focused on high-impact projects mostly in the energy and transport sectors June 18, 2020/AfDB A 37-square-kilometer solar park so large that it can be seen from space, with over seven million photovoltaic panels, and funding of $4 billion. In Africa? Impossible? Not anymore. Thirty […]

Victoria, Seychelles is the highest ranking city in Africa

June 18, 2020/Mercer Report Each year, the Cost of Living report finds that specific factors such as currency fluctuations, cost inflation for goods and services, and instability of accommodation prices, are essential to determining the cost of expatriate packages for employees on international assignments. This year, Victoria, Seychelles takes the […]

EBRD and Oxfam to strengthen community resilience

June 17, 2020/EBRD By Nibal Zgheib The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Oxfam, one of the world’s leading charities, are joining forces to strengthen the communities where they work and to promote sustainable civil societies in light of the coronavirus pandemic. In a Memorandum of Understanding signed today by EBRD President […]