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January 24, 2022

Prime Minister Boris Johnson says that as the Omicron cases continue to fall it is time to open up the country fully for business and travel. COVID tests for fully vaccinated travellers arriving in England are being scrapped, Prime Minister – Boris Johnson has confirmed. It comes after the chief executives of the UK’s largest airlines […]

January 15, 2022

The fund is targeting high developmental impact, including job creation and income generation through SMEs and micro-entrepreneurship JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, January 14, 2022 | — Verdant Capital (www.Verdant-Cap.com) Hybrid Fund initially has USD 36 million of committed capital; Support for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSME) through investment in financial institutions; […]

December 16, 2021

15/12/2021, Bangkok – The state of food security and nutrition in Asia and the Pacific has worsened, as more than 375 million people in the region faced hunger in 2020, an increase of 54 million over the previous year, according to a joint report just published by the Food and Agriculture Organization […]

December 11, 2021

News release: Sri Lanka – Education 8 December 2021 | Access to education during the first lockdown was high, but not without problems, survey shows A new survey shows that 85% of enrolled school-aged children had some form of education services during school closures between March and July 2020. While some received educational […]

COVID-19 tests for fully vaccinated travellers arriving in England to be scrapped, Boris Johnson, confirms

Verdant Capital and KfW establish new fund to support micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSME) growth in Africa

Number of hungry in Asia-Pacific swells by more than 50 million since the arrival of COVID-19

Access to education during the first lockdown was high, but not without problems, survey shows