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Twelve Facebook Community Leaders from Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya Selected as part of the Facebook Community Accelerator Programme

July 14, 2020/Chain Reaction Nigeria As part of its focus in bringing people together and building communities, Facebook today announced the 12 African community leaders who have been selected to join Facebook’s Community Accelerator, a six-month programme that aims to equip communities with the training, mentorship, and funding they need […]

BUDGIT, CISLAC Advocates Legislative Framework to Manage Recovered Assets in Nigeria

July 15, 2020/BudgIT BudgIT Foundation and The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), Transparency International in Nigeria; two leading non-governmental organizations in the advocacy for openness, accountability and transparency in Nigeria have called for a comprehensive legal framework for the recovery, coordination, monitoring and utilization of looted assets in Nigeria. […]

The DLA Piper African Governmental Response survey reveals a multi-pronged approach to tackling socio-economic challenges presented by COVID-19

July 14, 2020 Written by Chris Baird Partner DLA Piper United Kingdom James Kamau Chair DLA Piper Africa Nowhere in the world will the global humanitarian challenge of COVID-19 be felt more acutely than in Africa. In a continent of approximately 1.2 billion people, almost all of its 54 countries […]