African News
Ecobank Group signs United Nations (UN) Women’s Empowerment Principles
Ecobank (www.Ecobank.com), the pan-African banking group, has become an official signatory of the Women’s Empowerment Principles by UN Women and the UN Global Compact (WEPs), which provide guidance to the private sector on how to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment in the workplace, marketplace and community. Ecobank Group CEO, Jeremy Awori, announced the signature […]
Sports
Basketball Africa League and Special Olympics South Africa Play a Unified Activation in Conjunction with the Kalahari Conference Group Phase in Pretoria
The Basketball Africa League (BAL) (https://BAL.NBA.com/) and the Special Olympics of South Africa (SOSA) will collaborate on Sunday afternoon, March 10, to bring together a curated in-arena experience and unified celebrity game featuring Special Olympics ambassadors and supporters, SOSA athletes and more. For the second consecutive year, the BAL and SOSA have collaborated to continue using […]
Five new teams, three new countries to compete in 2024 Basketball Africa League season tipping off on March 9 in South Africa
Defending BAL Champion Al Ahly (Egypt) Among Seven Teams That Have Competed in the BAL (https://BAL.NBA.com/) Before, Alongside First-Time Participants from Burundi, Central African Republic, Libya, Morocco and Rwanda. Season will Tip Off with First-Ever BAL Game in South Africa Featuring 2022 Runner-Up Petro de Luanda (Angola) Taking on First-Time BAL Participant FUS Rabat Basketball (Morocco) […]
Tech and Science
If oil disappeared tomorrow (By HE Haitham Al Ghais)
If oil disappeared tomorrow, there would be no more jet fuel, gasoline or diesel. Internal combustion engine automobiles, buses, trucks, lorries and coaches would be stranded. Airplanes powered by jet fuel would be grounded. Freight and passenger rail powered by diesel would halt. People could not get to work; children could not get to school. […]
The Photography Exhibition You Don’t Need to See: Canon launches World Unseen at Somerset House
Canon Europe (www.Canon-Europe.com) today announces, ‘World Unseen’, with a photography exhibition that invites visitors – blind, partially sighted and sighted – to experience photography in a new, accessible and immersive way. The exhibition will be held at Somerset House, London between 5-7 April, in partnership with the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB). There are […]
