Day: May 28, 2022
President Uhuru Kenyatta to champion climate change in Africa
Earlier this week, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta landed the role of global champion for the Africa Adaptation Acceleration Programme (AAAP), a programme ran by the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) and the Africa Development Bank (AfDB). This comes after Kenya hosted the Africa Adaptation Acceleration Day late last year at the University of Nairobi where a report on the state
Africa risks stagflation due to Covid, Russia-Ukraine conflict: AfDB
Africa risks sliding into stagflation – a cycle of slow growth and high inflation – as it battles the lingering effects of the Covid pandemic and rising fuel and food prices caused by the Ukraine conflict, the African Development Bank (AfDB) said. Despite experiencing relatively low death rates compared to more developed regions, Africa was dealt a heavy economic blow