Republic of Korea and WFP Join Hands to Support Smallholder Farmers and Refugees in Tanzania

Tanzania: Dar es Salaam — The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has today welcomed a Republic of Korea contribution of US$ 6 million to boost smallholder farming and enhance food and nutrition security among refugees and hosting communities in Kigoma for the next four years. More than 200,000 refugees from Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi, mostly women and children have been living in the Kigoma region of Tanzania. The funding, which has been provided through the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) coContinue Reading

African ICT infrastructure can pave way for leap forward

African ICT infrastructure can pave way for leap forward. One major lesson for Africa from the Covid-19 pandemic is that it had an outsize negative impact on workers in jobs that cannot be performed remotely.  Such jobs are typically in the informal sectors that dominate Africa’s economies. Services and other sectors more amenable to remote work were far less affected, which…Continue Reading