Digital Retail Africa 2025: Shaping the Future of Retail
JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 02, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The retail industry is undergoing rapid transformation, and IT News Africa’s upcoming Digital Retail Africa 2025 is set to prepare businesses for the challenges and opportunities ahead. Taking place on 30 January 2025 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC), the event will bring together industry leaders, innovators, and...
Giving the Ocean a Fighting Chance Through the Great Blue Wall
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By James A MichelVICTORIA, Seychelles, Dec 2 2024 – The Ocean is our life source, but for decades it has been repeatedly marred by humankind. With the disposal of pollutants into the Ocean, overexploitation of Ocean resources and the human-driven increase of global temperatures, the Ocean is changing and not for the better. Our Oceans are warming, corals are dying, fish...
Confronting the Global Crisis of Land Degradation
The 16th session of the Conference of Parties (COP 16) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) will take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from 2 to 13 Dec. 2024
By UN Department of Global CommunicationsRIYADH Saudi Arabia, Dec 2 2024 – A major new scientific report was launched December 1, a day ahead of the opening of the 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties...
Who are the Ultimate Winners in the World’s Ongoing Military Conflicts?
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By Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Dec 2 2024 – If and when the devastating military conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza come to an end, the ultimate winners will not be the Russians, the Americans or the Israelis but the world’s arms manufacturers—contemptuously described as “merchants of death”.
And so will be the winners in a rash of conflicts and civil wars in...
Youth-Led Landmark Climate Change Case Starts in The Hague
The Peace Palace housing the International Court of Justice. The court today will begin hearings into the responsibilities of UN member states with regard to climate change. Credit: ICJ
By Cecilia RussellJOHANNESBURG, Dec 2 2024 – The intersection of law, diplomacy, and science will come under the spotlight at the International Court of Justice hearings starting today (Monday, December 2, 2024)...
EMGA arranges US$ 30M debt finance for Uzbekistan’s Ipak Yuli Bank
LONDON, Dec. 01, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Emerging Markets Global Advisory LLP (EMGA) announces they have completed their first transaction in Uzbekistan securing US$ 30M from the OPEC Fund for International Development (OPEC Fund).
Commenting on the transaction, Ipak Yuli’s Chairman Mr.Saydakhmedov Saidabror said, “We are pleased to be the first private bank in Uzbekistan to sign...
Le programme Bitget Builders franchit le cap des 5 000 membres et révèle des projets d’expansion
VICTORIA, Seychelles, 29 nov. 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bitget, la principale bourse de crypto–monnaie et société Web3, a annoncé l’expansion de son programme Bitget Builders. Grâce à cette initiative mondiale de recrutement, l’entreprise vise à établir un réseau dynamique de membres internationaux dans le domaine...
Bitget Builders erreicht über 5.000 Mitglieder und gibt Expansionspläne bekannt
VICTORIA, Seychellen, Nov. 29, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bitget, die führende Kryptowährungsbörse und Web3–Firma, hat die Expansion seiner globalen Rekrutierungsinitiative, dem Bitget Builders Programm, bekannt gegeben. Ziel ist es, ein dynamisches Netzwerk von Mitgliedern der internationalen Krypto–Community aufzubauen. Das Programm zielt darauf ab, die weltweite...
O Bitget Builders ultrapassa 5000 membros e revela planos de expansão
VICTORIA, Seychelles, Nov. 29, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — A Bitget, a principal exchange de criptomoedas e empresa da Web3, anunciou a expansão de sua iniciativa global de recrutamento, o Bitget Builders Program, que busca estabelecer uma rede dinâmica de membros globais no setor de criptomoedas. O programa foi projetado para incentivar a adoção de criptomoedas mundialmente,...
Sudanese Women & Human Rights Defenders Call for Solidarity to Stop the Bloodshed
A mother carries her baby in Port Sudan, on the Sudanese coast. Escalating violence and new atrocities in Sudan have pushed the humanitarian crisis to unprecedented levels, with displacement now exceeding 11 million people amid reports of mass killings and systematic-sexual violence across multiple regions, UN officials said October 2024. Credit: WFP/Abubakar Garelnabei
By Madiha AbdallaKHARTOUM,...