Ojok Okello is pioneering a new approach to community-led development. He became disillusioned with working for international NGOs and seeing projects fail, due to the persistent exclusion of communities from…
A study done from University of York that analysed rivers from 72 countries found that 65% of them had significant traces of antibiotics. Multiple rivers across Asia and Africa had…
Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte is set to make Italy a member of the Belt and Road initiative once Xi Jinping lands in Rome this week. The Belt and Road Initiative…
Japanese multinational Toshiba has cancelled plans for a nuclear power plant in Moorside, Cumbria. The plant, set to provide approximately 7% of the UK’s power upon completion, was unable to…
2019 will see the Netherlands join fellow EU members Belgium, France, and Ireland in issuing green government bonds. Approximately EUR 3.5 to 5 billion of bonds will be issued to…
The World Bank has priced the world’s first public bond created and managed using only blockchain in a $100 million ($73.16 million) deal designed to test how the technology might…
Ivory Coast has teamed up with the US Trade and Development Agency in its plans to build the first biomass power station in the world to be fuelled by waste…
A global expert on major infrastructure projects has described China’s $8 trillion Belt and Road Initiative to create a “modern Silk Road” with sea and land links across Asia, Africa and…
A group of East African countries, including Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan and Burundi, no longer want second-hand clothes. The countries are aiming for an all out ban by 2019. In…
The Gates Foundation has developed an open source platform called Mojaloop to promote mobile finance in the developing world. This is a free software available for software developers and banks to adapt…
A new Chinese-funded electric railway means cheaper and more reliable transportation of goods between Djibouti, a major port, and Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. The railway link will cut the journey…
The Indian state of Kerala is to be the first in the country to introduce a ‘fat tax’. The proposed 14.5% levy on all pizzas, burgers, donuts and tacos sold…
