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WTO members address TRIPS implementation review, discuss pandemic preparedness
World Trade Organization
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November 8, 2024
Under Article 71.1 of the TRIPS Agreement, the TRIPS Council is required to conduct a review of the implementation of the Agreement after two years and at periodic intervals thereafter. However, the initial review in 1999 was never completed and...
Land and water mini summit set for Saturday
The University of Rhode Island
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April 5, 2023
Country United States of America US Virgin Islands United States Minor Outlying Islands Canada Mexico, United Mexican States Bahamas, Commonwealth of the Cuba, Republic of Dominican Republic Haiti, Republic of Jamaica Afghanistan Albania, People's...
Minister Ronald Lamola on international relation matters and upcoming engagements
South African Government
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November 13, 2024
Media statement delivered by Minister Ronald Lamola at Oliver Tambo Building in Pretoria South Africa and Angola strengthen economic ties with new initiatives and upcoming State Visit On the 1st of November 2024, we undertook a working visit to...
Kenya Exempts Ethiopia, South Africa from e-travel Authorization fees
EIN Presswire
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March 27, 2024
Kenya Exempts Ethiopia, South Africa from e-travel Authorization fees KENYA, March 27, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Ethiopia and South Africa have joined the list of countries whose citizens are not required to pay the mandatory $30 e-travel...
Harvard’s Jason Furman urges continued embrace of trade to further reduce global inequality
World Trade Organization
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September 11, 2024
Jason Furman, Practice of Economic Policy Professor at Harvard University, emphasized that globalization over the past 25 years has significantly improved human welfare. Despite a global population increase of two billion, more than one billion...
A regional agreement aims to save a tropical paradise in trouble
UN Environmental Program
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August 21, 2024
The Nairobi Convention is part of the Regional Seas Programme established by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). The Convention entered into force in 1996 to address the accelerating degradation of the Western Indian Ocean by increasing the...
Prospects for a Just Peace between Russia and Ukraine: South Africa’s Potential Pathway
Australian Institute of International Affairs
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July 2, 2024
The Ukraine Global Peace Summit is a platform for the international community to take unified action and put diplomatic pressure on Russia. South African history suggests that achieving a fair peace for Ukraine requires Russian political leaders...
Deputy Minister Zolile Burns-Ncamashe: Southern Africa Development Community Traditional Leadership Drug Demand Reduction Meeting
South African Government
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April 11, 2024
Director of Programme African Union Commission – H.E. Ambassador Minata Samate Cessouma, Commissioner for Health, Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development Dr Jane Marie Ong’olo, the UNODC Southern Africa Regional Representative Mr Bill McGlynn/...
Ten Challenges for the UN in 2023-2024
International Crisis Group
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September 14, 2023
What’s new? World leaders are visiting the UN the week of 18 September for the annual high-level meeting of the General Assembly at a testing time for the organisation. Major-power divisions are shrinking the space for multilateral cooperation,...
Report highlights success of EIF in helping disadvantaged countries address global challenges
World Trade Organization
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June 28, 2024
Also attending the meeting were Djibouti's Minister of Commerce and Tourism, Mohamed Warsama Dirieh, Finland's WTO Ambassador Heidi Schroderus-Fox, who also chairs the EIF Steering Committee, Togo's WTO Ambassador and chair of the EIF Board, Kokou...
Comoros hosts WCO National Workshop on the Harmonized System
World Customs Organization
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April 11, 2024
The WCO National Workshop on the Harmonized System (HS) held in Moroni, Comoros from 8 to 12 November 2012 had as its objectives: the carrying out of a diagnostic mission relating to the national Nomenclature and the current infrastructure for...
African Development Bank and African Solidarity Fund seal strategic partnership
African Development Bank
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June 24, 2024
The African Development Bank and the African Solidarity Fund (ASF) have signed a letter of intent to strengthen the two institutions’ working relationship and synergy. The partnership was ratified by Aida Ngom, Director of the Private Sector...
African Development Bank Appoints Dr. Léandre Bassole as Deputy Director General for East African Region
African Development Bank
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June 11, 2024
The African Development Bank has appointed Dr. Léandre Bassole, a seasoned economic development specialist, as Deputy Director General for the East African Region, effective June 1, 2024. Dr. Bassole, a Burkina Faso national, has over 18 years of...
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin’s Regular Press Conference on April 25, 2024
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the People's Republic of China
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April 25, 2024
China News Service: Yesterday, China Wildlife Conservation Association released that two giant pandas will depart for Spain for conservation cooperation at the end of this month. Do you have more information on that？ Wang Wenbin: Giant panda...
SECNAV Delivers Remarks at the Inaugural African Maritime Forces Summit
U.S. Navy
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March 21, 2023
But I must say, there is something very familiar and even nostalgic to me about this unique archipelago—Cabo Verde has much in common, historically and culturally, with Caribbean islands such as my place of birth, Cuba. And in fact, my ancestry...
Training for French speaking trainers of the ESA region at the WCO Regional Training Centre in Mauritius - Harmonized System and Customs Valuation
World Customs Organization
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April 11, 2024
As part of the Regional Train-the-Trainers Programme for French‑speaking trainers of the East and Southern Africa (ESA) region, between 22 and 26 July 2019, the WCO Regional Training Centre in Mauritius hosted a group of Customs officials to...
New funding from CREWS Initiative accelerates Early Warnings for All
World Meteorological Organization
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May 17, 2024
The Climate Risk and Early Warnings Initiative (CREWS Initiative) has approved funding to boost progress towards providing life-saving early warning systems in vulnerable Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States by the end of...
Celebrities crowd Adesina Obafemi Awolowo Prize ceremony in Lagos
African Development Bank
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March 11, 2024
Original story : https://newafricanmagazine.com/30296/ The 2023 Obafemi Awolowo Prize for Leadership was formally presented to Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) during a glittering ceremony held at the Lagos...
9th Singapore-Australia Annual Leaders' Meeting, 5 March 2024
Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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March 5, 2024
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese held the 9th Singapore-Australia Annual Leaders’ Meeting in Melbourne today. The Prime Ministers held a Joint Press Conference after their Meeting. The Prime Ministers...
UNAIDS urges Indian Ocean Island countries to strengthen HIV prevention to end AIDS
UNAIDS
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March 27, 2024
ANTANANARIVO/GENEVA, 27 March 2024—Despite progress across most of sub-Saharan Africa, UNAIDS warns that gaps in HIV prevention are driving new HIV infections in the Indian Ocean Countries (IOC) and several other countries in Africa. The critical...