Ducati to drive SAP innovation to improve and enrich its customers’ experiences Claudio Domenicali, CEO Ducati: “Having a partner like SAP at our side will allow us to make our supply chain, so complex and subject to transformation in recent years, even more flexible and responsive thanks to the most innovative software solutions” SAP also […]
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Middle East and North Africa: addressing highest rates of youth unemployment in the world
NEW YORK, USA, 24 May 2022 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/-More than 33 million new jobs need to be created by 2030 in the Middle East and North Africa region by 2030, if the world’s largest unemployment hot spot is to be substantially improved, four United Nations agencies said on Monday. The joint-release by the UN labour agency, ILO, the […]
Promoting African agency on the global stage: communicators gather in Rwanda to establish roadmap
KIGALI, Rwanda, 23 May 2022 -/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The flagship event of Africa Communications Week 2022 hosted by KGL FWD with support from Africa No Filter and RwandAir will take place on 23 and 24 May 2022. The event brings together Africa focused communications professionals across Rwanda and other parts of the continent to discuss how communication can […]
More than 59 million internally displaced in 2021
NEW YORK, USA, 19 May 2022 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- A record 59.1 million people were displaced within their homelands last year, or four million more than in 2020, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Thursday, citing the latest Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID). IOM has welcomed the report, produced by its partner the Internal […]
Top Cryptocurrency Exchange Bybit Offers Up to 30% APY on Its New Liquidity Mining Pools
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, 19 May 2022 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- Bybit, a cryptocurrency with the second largest BTC Futures exchange by open interest, launched its new Liquidity Mining on May 19, 2022. Bybit users will have access to three liquidity pools: Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), and BitDAO (BIT), all paired with Tether (USDT). The pools will […]
Four tips for redeploying high-value skills within your organisation
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 19th May 2022 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- The past two years have marked a seismic shift in the way companies manage, motivate, and retain their employees as hybrid work models and a more flexible work environment became commonplace. However, this has created new challenges, as many of the roles within the organisation changed or […]
The Russia – Ukraine Conflict and its Impact on the Infrastructure and Built Environment Industry in Africa
NAIROBI, Kenya, 17 May, 2022 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/-Introduction Russia launched a full assault on Ukraine, its southwest neighbour, on February 24, 2022, marking a significant escalation in the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Both countries are major producers of crucial energy and industrial commodities such as oil, gas, aluminium, palladium, and nickel. They also produce food-related commodities such as […]
Ghana Enterprise Agency partners with IE University’s Africa Center to promote women entrepreneurship
ACCRA, Ghana, 17 May 2022, /African Media Agency/- Ghana Enterprises Agency (GEA) and IE Africa Center (IE University, Spain) have announced a partnership to promote the economic empowerment of women in Ghana by focusing on providing leadership and development training for women entrepreneurs. Empowering women is one of the most crucial concerns of the Millennium Development Goals of the United […]
Digital Literacy Program Upskills 1.8m Young Learners
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 17th May 2022 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- The 2021 edition of SAP Africa Code Week (ACW) saw more than 1.8m young people between the ages of 8 – 16 equipped with 21st century learning and coding skills via 41,000 workshops held across the continent. Since 2020, there has been a 23% increase in youths trained, bringing […]
Africa Fintech Summit Washington D.C. 2022 — Where African and Global Fintech Stakeholders Met in April
WASHINGTON DC, United States of America, 16 May 2022, /African Media Agency/- On April 21, 2022, African and global fintech stakeholders gathered at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center for the seventh edition of the Africa Fintech Summit. The bi-annual event returned to Washington D.C. for the first time in three years following a virtual […]
Media Advisory: Report: Global Smokers Exceed 1.1 Billion
May 16, 2022 9:00 – 9:30 a.m. ET1:00 – 1:30 p.m. GMT REGISTER HERE Ahead of the release of a new Tobacco Atlas, health leaders will discuss latest findings on the current status of tobacco use worldwide CHICAGO, USA, 12 May, 2022,/African Media Agency(AMA)/- On Monday, May 16 at 9 a.m. ET global health organization Vital Strategies and the Tobacconomics team at the University […]
UN focus on plant health, crucial for boosting food security worldwide
NEW YORK, USA, le 13th May 2022 -/African Media Agency (AMA)/On the very first International Day of Plant Health, marked on Thursday, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has called for more investment in innovation to boost food security, especially for the billions worldwide living close to the bread line. Plants under threat Healthy plants […]
New Report Finds Blood Pressure Drugs Can Cost Up to 40 Times More in Regions with the Most Strokes and Heart Attacks
High cost, low availability and variable quality of medicines increase risk of heart attacks and strokes from high blood pressure – the world’s leading cause of death NEW YORK, USA, 12 May, 2022 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/-A new report released today by Resolve to Save Lives (RTSL) and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) shows that excessive and inequitable hypertension […]