Newmarket group gets their needles moving for the national World Wide Knit in ...

Uganda draw with Zimbabwe as Morocco and Burkina Faso also ends in stalemate in Group B at the CHAN.

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World Wide Fund says elephant poaching on the rise
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ARUSHA (Xinhua) -- Wildlife charity World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) on Wednesday urged African nations to tackle elephant poaching which it said was recently on the rise. “The increase in elephant poaching is highly linked to an increase of ivory ...
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>Policy Forum has identified areas in the second draft of the National Petroleum Policy that need improvement to ensure that national interests are safeguarded.

The African champions Nigeria will play USA, Australia and Sweden in Group D at the 2015 Fifa Women's World Cup in Canada.

JOB #141045
JOB TITLELead Specialist- Leadership and Learning
JOB FAMILYLearning
JOB TYPEProfessional & Technical
GRADEGH
LOCATIONWashington, DC
RECRUITMENT TYPEInternational Hire
LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTEnglish [Essential]
CLOSING DATE01-Nov-2014

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Leadership, Learning, and Innovation (LLI) is a new WBG Vice Presidency (VPU) dedicated to building the capacity of staff and country partners to accelerate achievement of the twin WBG goals:  to eradicate extreme poverty by...

World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim.

Significant new assistance planned for hardest-hit countries

Following alarming evidence of the spread of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, the World Bank Group today announced that it will nearly double its financing to $400 million to help the worst-affected countries address the emergency and build stronger health systems for the years ahead

This represents $170 million in new funding. With today’s announcement, the Bank will put $230 million...

Ahead of World Education Forum 2015, Bank Group says poor education quality has ‘serious consequences’ for ending extreme poverty
INCHEON, Republic of Korea, May 18, 2015 – On the eve of the landmark World Education Forum 2015, the World Bank Group announced that it will double results-based financing for education to US$5 billion over the next five years. The new financing is part of the Bank Group’s commitment to end extreme poverty in the world by 2030 by improving both the quality and...

“For the first time in the history of the World Bank Group, we have set a goal that aims to reduce global inequality.” — World Bank Group President Kim

World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim today called for economic growth that creates more just societies, and he defined the institution’s goal of boosting shared prosperity as the World Bank Group’s way of tackling the global challenge of inequality.

Speaking at Howard University in Washington DC on the eve of the World Bank/IMF Annual...