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Supporting Botswana’s ambition to diversify its economy and accelerate its structural transformation towards sustainable and inclusive growth is the main objective of the African Development Bank Group’s Country Strategy Paper 2022-2026 (CSP 2022-2026) for the Southern African country. Approved in March 2022 by the Bank Group’s Board of Directors, the Country Strategy Paper sets out two priority areas of intervention for the next five years: building economic resilience through support to economic governance and private sector development; and developing quality infrastructure to increase competitiveness and productivity. Under the first priority area, the Bank Group will continue supporting key policy reforms…

My Lords and members of the House of Commons. My Government’s priority is to grow and strengthen the economy and help ease the cost of living for families. My Government will level up opportunity in all parts of the country and support more people into work. My Ministers will continue to support the police to make the streets safer, and fund the National Health Service to reduce the COVID backlogs. In these challenging times, my Government will play a leading role in defending democracy and freedom across the world, including continuing to support the people of Ukraine. My Government will…

SAN FRANCISCO AND DUBLIN—Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, today launched Stripe Financial Connections, enabling businesses to establish direct connections with their customers’ bank accounts that power a wide range of financial processes. Businesses can use Financial Connections to verify accounts for payments and payouts, check balances to reduce payment failures, and cut fraud by confirming bank account ownership. Direct bank account connections have historically been nearly impossible to establish on a programmatic basis. Businesses have had to either build custom integrations with the thousands of different financial institutions where US customers maintain bank accounts, or attempt a workaround,…

Spring edition of  Serbia Fashion Week will be held from April 26th to 30th in Novi Sad. At two locations: the Novi Sad Fair and the SKCNS “Fabrika”, the audience will see many fantastic fashion shows, exhibitions, seminars and accompanying programs. The most popular designers from Serbia will present their new collections, but also from the region of the former Yugoslav republics and countries from all over Europe. During the evening of the grand opening of Serbia Fashion Week, part of the “European Capital of Culture 2022” project this year, will be a fashion show by Slovenian designer Sanja Veličković.…

Through the RSA Academies project, we demonstrated that we’re not simply a ‘think-tank’ but we’re committed to impact on the ground. RSA Academies was a major investment in developing the potential and success of young people. We began our engagement with the academies programme with our sponsorship of the RSA Academy in Tipton, Sandwell, in 2008. Following the early success of that initiative, we were inspired to go further. We established RSA Academies in late 2011, in the flourish of activity that followed the 2010 Academies Act, which encouraged good and outstanding schools to become academies, and opened the door to…

IBAT is pleased to be working closely with the new Financial Crimes Intelligence Center (FCIC) in Tyler with the goal of minimizing the ongoing impact of card fraud and financial crimes. The Director of the Center, Adam Colby, has reached out to us on a number of occasions to get contact information for specific banks with “actionable intelligence” and time-sensitive threats. This outreach could include a variety of information from investigations, the dark web and other sources and may also include a request for information to assist in an investigation. Recent examples have included stolen and counterfeit checks, re-encoded cards…

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank has approved the establishment of a €4 million Africa Circular Economy Facility to drive integration of the circular economy into African efforts to achieve nationally defined contribution (NDC) targets. The Facility, a multi-donor trust fund, will operate over a period of 5-years and will receive an initial support of €4 million from the Government of Finland and the Nordic Development Fund(link is external). The board approval took place on 30 March 2022. The circular economy is a model of production and consumption that involves sharing, leasing, reusing, repairing, refurbishing and recycling existing materials…

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, April 11, 2022/ — The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund has approved a $5.5 million technical assistance grant to kick-start the roll-out of the flagship Desert to Power (https://bit.ly/3O29ZC1) initiative in the Eastern Sahel region countries of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Sudan. Known as the East Africa Regional Energy Project, it will be financed through the ADF-15 Regional Public Good window of the African Development Fund, the concessional arm of the African Development Bank Group. The project will develop technical studies for regional solar parks and associated battery storage near regional energy interconnectors, high-voltage cables…

Inspired by the luxury city of Dubai, the two entrepreneurs Georges and Marianna wanted to recall and connect the best of Italy following the theme of Expo Dubai 2020 “Connecting Minds, Creating the Future.” Georges Italo-Lebanese and Marianna, Italian from Puglia, after being promoters of important initiatives during Expo Milano 2015, he as Consul in the Zimbabwe pavilion has promoted the famous and popular CrocoBurger and ZebraBurger, she promoter of the Fashion Lab Mad Mood Milano Fashion Week, have been able to combine Italian excellence in a bite worth 2000 dirhams (about 500 euros). The “Golden Italian Bite” based on:…

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, April 13, 2022/ — Africa s still grappling with the crisis of energy poverty—a problem that is only becoming more acute as a result of a decline in investment and a lack of adequate infrastructure. It is possible that renewable energy sources, despite their widespread availability across the continent, will fall short of meeting Africa’s electricity demands (https://bit.ly/38OB1wL) in the short to medium term, leading to either the continued use of oil and gas or the emergence of even more people living in energy poverty (https://bit.ly/3rq8sft). Numerous stakeholders have advocated for the continued presence of oil and gas, at least…