Development

The Walt Disney Company has pledged $5 million to support nonprofit organizations that advance social justice. Disney starts this initiative with a $2 million donation to the NAACP. NAACP to use this donation to advance their...

Partnership within UK Aid and Gavi: the Vaccine Alliance is helping the Ghanaian government use zipline drones to collect coronavirus test samples from across the country. Collectively, the UK government and Gavi alongside the Gates Foundation...

West Africa’s agricultural sector represents 35% of the region’s GDP and is one of the principal sources of employment for millions of people- up to 80% of the residents in rural areas. However, climate change and...

In an innovative gesture to recognize and thank the frontline workers who continue to deliver essential services amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) unveiled two new...

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is operating in close cooperation with the government of South Sudan along with other UN agencies to ramp up monitoring at the country’s borders as part of attempts to curtail...

Chinese giant Alibaba Group Holdings Limited has announced that it has contributed nearly. 3.4 billion RMB to support the global fight against Covid-19, including RMB 2.76 billion from the Alibaba Group and RMB 593 million from...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has collected 21 billion Mongolian togrogs (MNTs) in a groundbreaking issue of the first offshore MNT-linked nomadic bond which is approximately equivalent to 7.5 million dollars. The issue sets a new...

As the number of CVID-19s in Mozambique has recently exceeded 250–with cases confirmed in all provinces, there is a resumed alert for the spread of the disease in resettlement places, which host over 100,000 people were...

More than 2,100 people affected by the devastating floods and waterlogging in Burundi are receiving assistance from the IOM, the International Organization for Migration (IOM). A few weeks of torrential rains have affected 45,000 people in...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed 300 million USD as renewable energy loans to help Indonesia’s state-owned PT Geo Dipa Energi (GDE), increase its geothermal power generation capacity in Java by 110 MW to help...