Mastercard Launches Classic and Platinum Debit Cards in Partnership with Amal Bank
This will grant Amal Bank’s customers access to MasterCard’s global payment services, along with the bank’s enhanced service availability and convenience.Customers will be able to leverage Mastercard’s global footprint and Amal Bank’s National footprint. Somalia, 12 September 2023: Mastercard is launching Classic and Platinum Debit...
New Country Policy and Institutional Assessment Report for Africa Points to Areas of Improvement Amid Challenges
WASHINGTON, September 12, 2023 — Despite new international challenges, poor harvests, and the price shocks of 2022, many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa saw improvements in their social inclusion policies and their structural policies—both of which are reflected in the latest Country Policy...
Libya floods:Toll from devastating floods in Libyan city passes 5,100 dead, authorities struggle to get in aid
BY: AP
DERNA, Libya (AP) — Search teams combed streets, wrecked buildings and even the sea for bodies in a devastated eastern Libyan city on Wednesday, where authorities said massive flooding had killed at least 5,100 people, with the toll...
Morocco earthquake death toll passes 2,800, survivors camp outdoors
By: REUTERS
TINMEL, Morocco, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Villagers in parts of Morocco devastated by the country's biggest earthquake in over a century camped outside for a fourth night on Monday, as the death toll rose to more than...
UN vows to intensify support to secure Somalia
By:XINHUA
United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Operational Support Atul Khare has wrapped up his four-day visit to Somalia, pledging that the UN will ramp up its support for stabilization efforts in the country.
"I...
Morocco earthquake: 296 killed as buildings damaged
By:BBC
A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.8 has struck central Morocco, killing at least 296 people, the country's interior ministry says.The epicentre was in the High Atlas Mountains, 71km (44 miles) south-west of Marrakesh, at a depth...
UK to host global summit to turn the dial on world hunger
The UK will host a global food security summit with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) to galvanize action to tackle hunger and malnutrition.
It will focus on the best...
Russia starts grain deliveries to Africa
BY: AA
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday that "the practical work" on the supply of Russian grain to six African countries has already begun.
Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic,...
Gabon’s detained, deposed president appeals to world for help
By:Anadolu agency
Gabon’s deposed President Ali Bongo Ondimba on Wednesday appealed to the world to raise a voice for his release after the military put him "under house arrest” after a coup, according to a video of...
Taiwan deserves inclusion in the UN to contribute more to the World
By Ambassador Allen LOU, Taiwan Representative Office in the Republic of Somaliland UN as the Platform for Global Unity Taiwan widely acclaimed as democratic bastion in the East Asia is also in the face of looming military threats posed by the...