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Deputy Minister Alvin Botes: International Relations and Cooperation Dept Budget Vote 2025/26
South African Government
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July 4, 2025
Honourable House Chairperson, Honourable Minister Lamola and Deputy Minister Moraka, Chair of the Portfolio Committee on International Relations, Hon. Mahumapelo, Honourable Members, Director-General Zane Dangor and Members of the South African...
Minister Ronald Lamola: Pre-Budget International Relations and Cooperation Media Briefing
South African Government
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July 4, 2025
Africa: Implementing Agenda 2063 Our foreign policy is an extension of our domestic imperatives on human rights and resolving the triple challenges of inequality, poverty and unemployment. Through attracting Foreign Direct Investment, we intend to...
Forgotten in a Protracted Crisis: South Sudanese Refugees in Ethiopia’s Gambella Region Face New Hardships as Aid Withers
Oxfam
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May 21, 2025
Clinics that once offered at least primary care and essential drugs are now often empty shelves, as supply pipelines and NGO health projects are disrupted. Education, too, is imperiled – Thijok, added “schools in the camps lack books and even...
Minister Gwede Mantashe: Mineral and Petroleum Resources Dept Budget Vote 2025/26
South African Government
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July 3, 2025
House Chairperson, Speaker of the National Assembly, Honourable Thoko Didiza Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Mineral and Petroleum Resources, Honourable Mikateko Mahlaule Deputy Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources, Ms Phumzile...
WaterStep Partners with John Dau Foundation & Helps Contain Cholera Outbreak in Duk County, South Sudan in Just 6 Weeks
EIN Presswire
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May 8, 2025
WaterStep has restored dignity, brought hope & life-saving access to safe water to 30,000+ people in South Sudan. LOUISVILLE, KY, UNITED STATES, May 8, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- In a region long defined by scarcity, conflict, and displacement,...
Study unveils water danger in S-African schools
MENAFN
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June 30, 2025
(MENAFN) A recent investigation by a South African environmental group has revealed that 43% of schools participating in a national water testing project found dangerous bacteria in their water samples. The results were published on Wednesday. The...
Transforming South Sudan’s Agricultural Future: John Ladu Simon Jacob
UN International Training and Research Center
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February 21, 2025
Despite not having a university degree, John’s experience and potential were recognized and he was recruited as managing director of his current company, which provides agricultural and extension services. There, John manages an initiative to rent...
Harvesting Hope: Transforming South Sudan’s Agricultural Future
UN International Training and Research Center
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February 20, 2025
Despite not having a university degree, John’s experience and potential were recognized and he was recruited as managing director of his current company, which provides agricultural and extension services. There, John manages an initiative to rent...
South Sudan: African Development Bank Group approves $46 million grant funding for agricultural productivity, food security and resilience
African Development Bank
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July 12, 2024
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved a $46.2 million grant to support the first phase of the Climate Resilient Agri-Food System Transformation Programme in South Sudan. This initiative aims to boost...
How Uganda’s push for “clean cooking” could save lives and counter climate change
UN Environmental Program
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January 22, 2025
Kagimu is one of a growing number of Ugandans who in recent months have switched to electric cooking technologies. The ambitious nation-wide push, supported in part by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), is designed to stem air...
Clear Blue Technologies to Provide Renewable Energy Solutions for Telecom Sites in Rural South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
GlobeNewswire, Inc.
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September 11, 2024
Clear Blue Technologies to implement renewable energy solutions, bringing sustainable power to rural, off-grid telecommunications sites in South Sudan and the DRC. Hybrid renewable energy-battery systems will ensure market-leading 99.97% uptime...
Empowering South Sudanese Youth Toward Success
UN International Training and Research Center
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August 28, 2024
The Great Ideas Space for South Sudan 2023: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Training for Food Security programme aimed to equip participants with the knowledge, skills, and network needed to turn their ideas for a social or for-profit enterprise...
Promoting Agritech in South Sudan
UN International Training and Research Center
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July 9, 2024
Kuena James Dak Kuena, Entrepreneur, social worker and ICT specialist South Sudan Kuena James Dak Kuena is a South Sudanese entrepreneur, social worker and ICT specialist who seeks to empower local farmers and advance the agricultural sector by...
I2LEC Crackdown on Environmental Crime in Congo Basin Recovers $11.2 Million in Illicit Goods
EIN Presswire
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November 14, 2024
ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, November 14, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- A multinational law enforcement operation codenamed 'Operation Jungle Shield', coordinated by the International Initiative of Law Enforcement for Climate (I2LEC), has...
Deputy President Paul Mashatile: Public Lecture at St. Petersburg State University
South African Government
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June 19, 2025
Programme Director; The Honourable Vice-Rector for International Affairs, Professor Sergey Andryushin; Esteemed Members of the University’s Academic Senate; The Executive Leadership and Faculty of St. Petersburg State University; Representatives...
Statement on Women Building Peace in a Changing Environment, UN Security Council Open Debate
International Committee of the Red Cross
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October 24, 2024
Madam President, Excellencies, Less cruelty in conflict means less hatred as an obstacle to resolving it. That is why of the 100 steps to peace, the first must be humanitarian. The origins of the Red Cross / Red Crescent movement lie in the...
UN Reveals Hunger to Intensify in Thirteen Nations
MENAFN
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June 16, 2025
(MENAFN) A new Hunger Hotspots report issued Monday by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) reveals that food insecurity will intensify in 13 countries and territories in the coming months, with five...
The ripple effects of US foreign aid cuts to food and water access across North Africa
Middle East Institute
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June 13, 2025
This article is part of an MEI research initiative examining the complex interplay between food security, governance, political stability, and economic development in North Africa and the Sahel. The project brings together a diverse range of...
Biggest-ever aid cut by G7 members a death sentence for millions of people, says Oxfam
Oxfam
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June 13, 2025
Aid cuts could cost millions of lives and leave girls, boys, women and men without access to enough food, water, education, health treatment G7 countries are making deliberate and deadly choices by cutting life-saving aid, enabling atrocities, and...
Mary’s Meals Marks World Hunger Day 2025 by Highlighting the Impact of School Feeding
EIN Presswire
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May 27, 2025
Many ask the question if we are losing the fight against hunger. Mary’s Meals offers a simple solution—reaching over 2.6 million children every school day. BLOOMFIELD, NJ, UNITED STATES, May 27, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Observed on May 28,...