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Phillips has given the MIT-five-year partnership a $25 million funding that will be disbursed over a five year term. The partnership is an integral part of the Netherlands-based company’s border strategy to accelerate innovation and business growth through collaborative efforts with leading-edge partner companies and leading institutions.
Continue reading The Africa Center board named Dana Reed as its newest member. Ms. Reed’s arrival at the multidisciplinary institution will add a much needed fresh perspective and business expertise the Center needs as its tries to fasten its pace after a long slow start stymied by limited financing. She will oversee the Center’s fundraising campaign goals -as it work toward realizing the completion of its facility located at Fifth Avenue and Central Park, help develop and strengthen transatlantic ties and help it navigate the relations between the Center and the local Harlem community.
Continue reading Critics say Nkurunziza’s 3rd presidential bid violates constitution & the 2006 Arusha Agreement that ended its ethnic civil war.
Continue reading In this march to strengthen democracy and governance we also need to close the gap between young people and their leaders. Africa’s greatest resource is the energy and talents of its youth. The young generation is becoming the overwhelming majority, the one that is going to vote… or not. We must not let it lose faith in “democracy.” We need to find ways of listening to our young people, our citizens’ majority. It is their potential, after all, which will decide our continent’s future. Let’s not waste it.
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