UN forum in Bahrain endorses declaration on entrepreneurship and innovation for the SDGs UN News/Abdelmonem Makki The importance of innovation in tackling environmental and socioeconomic issues and promoting sustainable development is highlighted in the fifth Manama Declaration, which was released during the 2024 World Entrepreneurship Investment Forum (WEIF) in Bahrain. As delegates prepared for the UN
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Embrace innovation ‘to make sustainable transport a reality for all’ COP28/Anthony Fleyhan The UN General Assembly’s Sustainability Week includes a High-level Meeting on Sustainable Transport, which highlights the pressing need to create a sustainable, inclusive, and prosperous future. To provide equitable access to sustainable transport, Assembly President Dennis Francis emphasizes the significance of innovation-driven strategies, especially
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Africa can become a new global supply chain force: UNCTAD © UN Women/Gaganjit Singh| Women from rural areas learn how to build solar power items. In a new report, UNCTAD described that Africa has the potential to be a main exporter of higher value-added goods, spurring economic growth and employment while also driving up productivity and salaries. Rebeca Grynspan, the UNCTAD
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By: Jeremy Gwao Solomon Islands is a country with diverse cultures and rich traditions. Given its vast dialects, locals speak different languages. For photographer Neil Nuia, it is through photos that he can tell universal stories about his island nation. Neil, 31, aspires to be a changemaker through his photography. Another passionate youth is 29-year-old
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In prehistoric times when access to education was limited, people jumped from library to library in search of books that’ll help them excel academically. Today, cyberspace has thrown all that into the bin of history by availing countless educational resources thereby creating more opportunities to learn at just a fingertip.
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Globally, security has remained a subject of great concern. No nation or society can boast of being completely free from the problems ensued by insecurity. In the last two decades alone, countries like Israel, North Korea, Russia, USA, and South Korea, have experienced different forms of transnational violence; terrorism, kidnapping, insurgency, socio ethno-religious conflicts, have emerged in countries like Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Kenya; while countries like Myanmar, Pakistan, and Gambia have suffered political violence and politically induced tensions.
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The situation in Nigeria from the onset of gaining independence has been enveloped with socio, political, economic, and religious vices. Although, the political crisis has been the major factor for the proliferation of the quagmire, the problem seems like a repetitive system that brings with it nothing, but a hit of dopamine on every aspect in Nigeria which the only possible solution that is feasible to break the repetitive pattern of backwardness is the youth.
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It is clear to all that locally and globally, celebrities are fast becoming key actors in shaping the social life, moral values, political and cultural transformation.
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With the inception of technology, growing opportunities, and the financial incentives associated with the digital technology; most central banks, experts, local and international agencies were compelled to explore possible means of payment that’ll be more efficient, easier, better, faster, and universally acceptable in this era.
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Not long ago, the Tokyo Olympics came to a successful conclusion. Some of them, though not obvious at first glance, attracted a lot of attention — a delegation of refugees from different countries, speaking different languages but sharing the same aspirations.
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