Boyden hires new Partner Farah Esmail in East Africa, as client needs drive growth in leadership for multinationals, social impact, family and private equity-backed businesses Farah Esmail NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov. 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Boyden, a premier leadership and talent advisory firm with more than 75 offices in over 45 countries, welcomes new partner […]
Month: November 2021
Amnesty International Report Demands Compensation for Uganda’s Benet People
KAMPALA — A report by Amnesty International documents several violent forced evictions in Uganda of the Benet indigenous people. Affected members of the community narrate details of the eviction from their ancestral land saying it took place without notice and they are asking the Ugandan government to compensate them. More than a decade after […]
FSNWG Food Security Alert
FSNWG issued a food security alert calling for immediate action in response to expectations of rising food and nutrition insecurity linked to consecutive poor rainy seasons and forecasts for another poor season between October and December 2021 across parts of the Horn of Africa. Since this alert was published, the following updates have become […]
WFP warns of countdown to catastrophe as acute hunger reaches new peak
ROME — The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today warned that the number of people teetering on the edge of famine (IPC4/Emergency or worse) in 43 countries has risen to 45 million, as acute hunger spikes around the world. This number has risen from 42 million earlier in the year and 27 million in […]
Delivering hope through safe delivery services amid a dire humanitarian situation in Tigray region of Ethiopia
Mekelle, Tigray – “They have saved my life and that of my daughter. I stayed under their care the whole night and delivered my baby girl safely,” says Selam, the first mother to deliver at the camp for internally displaced persons — Sabacare 4 — in Mekelle, Tigray. After living for months in a […]
Score Card on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in WHO African Region 2020
As an accountability tool, the Regional SRHR Scorecard has been developed to track progress in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in the African Region. It was informed by global, regional and national commitments and is intended to become the tool for peer review and accountability. It will be used to monitor achievements of […]