Day: October 4, 2022

EB5 Capital Announces Two New EB-5 Projects

WASHINGTON, Oct. 04, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — EB5 Capital is pleased to announce two new offerings after the passing of the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022. “We’re excited to be back in the market traveling and meeting with prospective investors and partners from different corners of the globe,” said EB5 Capital Founder & […]

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Automox Expands Functionality and Reach with Remote Control and New Global Partnership

Product and distribution momentum set to fuel international growth Boulder, Colo, Oct. 04, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Automox®, the cloud-native IT operations provider, today announced general availability of its remote control feature, offering global IT teams advanced troubleshooting capabilities from a single cloud-native console. Remote control is a powerful tool for IT teams everywhere. IT […]

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Africa’s Pulse, No. 26, October 2022: Food System Opportunities in a Turbulent Time [EN/PT]

WASHINGTON, October 4, 2022 — Global headwinds are slowing Africa’s economic growth as countries continue to contend with rising inflation, hindering progress on poverty reduction. The risk of stagflation comes at a time when high interest rates and debt are forcing African governments to make difficult choices as they try to protect people’s jobs, purchasing power and development gains.   According to the World Bank’s latest Africa’s Pulse, a biannual analysis of the near-term regional macroeconomic outlook, economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is set to decelerate from 4.1% in 2021 to 3.3% in 2022, a downward revision of 0.3

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African countries convene in Addis to find solutions for continent’s food problems

ADDIS ABABA— At the very height of Climate Change induced hazards, 32 African countries converged Monday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to set a roadmap for better understanding and inclusion of Agroecology as a means of forging the next best solution for Africa’s food problems.   The three-day conference is one of many endeavours by the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) to offset the climate catastrophe through a major agroecology policy solution and curb the negative effects it has on Africans’ social, economic, and ecological well-being.   The conference (AFSA) was organized in conjunction with Consortium on Climate Change

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Who Is Ibrahim Traore, the Soldier Behind Burkina Faso’s Latest Coup?

As a heavily armed convoy drove through a cheering crowd in Burkina Faso’s capital on Sunday morning, the boyish face of the country’s latest military ruler, Captain Ibrahim Traore, emerged from the turret of an armored personnel carrier. Sporting fatigues and a red beret, the 34-year-old smiled and raised his thumb as onlookers welcomed him, some by waving Russian flags. Traore, a relatively low-ranking officer who days earlier was running an artillery regiment in a small northern town, has been catapulted onto the world stage since he and a group of soldiers overthrew President Paul-Henri Damiba in a September 30

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Al-Qaida Branch Claims Attack on Burkina Faso Convoy; Dozens Killed

The Sahel-based branch of al-Qaida, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM), has claimed an attack on a convoy in Burkina Faso that killed more than a dozen soldiers last month, the SITE Intelligence Group said Tuesday. Islamist militants attacked a convoy taking supplies to a town in northern Burkina Faso on September 26, days before the West African country was hit by its second military takeover this year. JNIM claimed credit for the ambush and said it “caused significant economic losses to the enemy and ‘led to a shakeup’ in the Burkinabe army ranks, culminating in the military coup,” the

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