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UN Security Council to Discuss Venezuela’s Annexation Claims on Guyana
The United Nations Security Council is set to convene a closed-door session on Friday to address the escalating tensions between Venezuela and neighboring Guyana, fueled by Venezuela’s renewed claims over a significant portion of Guyana’s territory. The dispute, rooted in historical disagreements dating back over a century, has taken a concerning turn as Venezuela, led by President Nicolas Maduro, intensifies…
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With Focus on Africa, New DFC and Mastercard Collaboration to Provide up to $50 Million in Potential Financing to Enable Digitization and Financial Inclusion
WASHINGTON — At the close of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) and Mastercard announced a collaboration to increase support to financial institutions, agricultural and technology companies, and other businesses engaged with Mastercard Community Pass, a digital platform designed to address infrastructure challenges that arise in digitizing rural communities, such as unreliable connectivity, low smartphone ownership, and…
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Africa
Scoutbee and Promena Forge Partnership to Drive Agile and Competitive Supply Chains
BERLIN & ISTANBUL & WASHINGTON — Scoutbee, the leading AI-powered supplier intelligence and discovery platform and Promena, Turkiye’s leading provider of strategic procurement software, today announced a partnership to empower their customers to better navigate the growing shifts in the procurement landscape. The adoption of digital processes has played a key role in responding to these challenges, as has collaboration between…
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Africa
AHF: Monkeypox Vaccine Access Must Be Guided by Global Equity, Inclusion
KAMPALA, Uganda & WASHINGTON — AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) today sharply criticized the World Health Organization (WHO) and the collective emerging and sluggish global response to monkeypox. AHF has particular concerns about news this weekend that vaccine doses—in critically short supply worldwide and with months-long production delays expected—have been ordered in the millions by wealthy Western countries including Canada, Great…
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