Tuesday , March 19th , 2024  

Education Cannot Wait Interviews Professor Mohammed Belhocine, Commissioner for Education, Science, Technology and Innovation within the African Union

By External SourceMar 19 2024 (IPS-Partners)   Professor Mohammed Belhocine is an Algerian national. Former Head of the Department of Internal Medicine, he held various positions in Algeria, at the Faculty of Medicine and the Ministry of Health, before joining the international civil service in 1997. Former Director of the Division of Non-Communicable Diseases at the WHO Regional Office for...

How A Program in Ghana to Create Green Jobs Can Be a Lesson for US Mayors & Across the Globe

The MMC, the Accra Metropolitan Assembly, and local community leaders celebrate the construction of a childcare center in an informal area of Accra, Ghana. Credit: Samer Saliba By Elizabeth K. T. Sackey and Vittoria ZanusoACCRA / NEW YORK, Mar 19 2024 – For the past eight years, Chiso has collected waste as part of Accra’s informal waste management sector. Since arriving in Ghana from Nigeria,...

Exploring New Depths: NF-POGO Centre of Excellence Driving Innovative, Diverse Ocean Observation

Ten ambitious scholars have the opportunity to participate in the Nippon Foundation-Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean Centre of Excellence in Observational Oceanography. Credit: Riley Smith/Courtesy OFI By Alison KentishDOMINICA, Mar 19 2024 – Picture yourself as an early-career ocean researcher. You have the opportunity to be at sea in addition to learning on campus. Through...

TaiMed Biologics and AcedrA BioPharmaceuticals Partner to Commercialize Trogarzo® (Ibalizumab-uiyk) in the Middle East and North Africa Region

TAIPEI, Taiwan and RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, March 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Taimed Biologics (“TaiMed”), a publicly held Taiwanese biotechnology company, signed an Exclusive License and Distribution Agreement with AcedrA BioPharmaceuticals (“AcedrA”), a Saudi Arabia–based company operating in Middle East and North Africa region, to satisfy the unmet medical...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Rezolve AI Ink Pioneering MOU to Establish Global AI Market Leaders

Establishment of an AI Centre of Excellence in Saudi Arabia Creation of Global Market Leaders (Please Note on December 17, 2021, Rezolve AI entered into a definitive Business Combination Agreement (as amended and restated on June 16, 2023, the “Business Combination Agreement”) with Armada Acquisition Corp. I (NASDAQ: AACI), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, which...

How Women in Ahmedabad Slums Are Beating Back Climate’s Deadly Heat

Women in Ahmedabad slums work from home at tailoring, embroidery, kite-making, snack-making, or running grocery shops, micro-retailing vegetables and flowers, with little respite from the brutal heat waves that have been steadily worsening. Until now…

Perfect Match: American Legend John McEnroe Joins Forces With Pepperstone

MELBOURNE, Australia, March 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — One of the greatest and most exciting players in tennis history has partnered with Pepperstone, with former World No. 1 and seven–time grand slam singles champion John McEnroe joining forces with the globally recognised Forex (FX) and Contracts for Difference (CFD) broker. McEnroe joins Australian and current World No. 9 Alex de...

التطابق المثالي: الأسطورة الأمريكية جون ماكنرو يدخل في شراكة مع ببرستون

MELBOURNE, Australia, March 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — عقد أحد أعظم اللاعبين وأكثرهم إثارة في تاريخ التنس شراكة...

Gender Rights: Resistance Against Regression

Credit: Silvana Flores/AFP via Getty Images By Inés M. PousadelaMONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Mar 18 2024 – Global progress on gender rights has slowed almost to a halt. After decades of steady progress, demands for the rights of women and LGBTQI+ people now play out on bitterly contested territory. Over the course of several decades, global movements for rights won profound changes in consciences,...

Countering Growing Authoritarianism Requires a Robust Civil Society, Media & Academia

By Margee EnsignBLAGOEVGRAD, Bulgaria, Mar 18 2024 – Putin’s regime has made it abundantly clear that it will violently repress and punish political opposition. Even as protestors chanted “Russia will be free!” at Nalvalny’s funeral, dozens were arrested simply for honoring his memory. Nalvalny’s martyrdom and the crackdown on his followers points up a loss of freedom...