Held in Lagos, Nigeria, the first UNWTO Global Conference on Linking Tourism, Culture and Creative Industries, celebrated the close ties between the two major sectors. Around 40% of all tourists cite culture as the main motivation for travelling, and UNWTO is leading the way in b...
It is to be recalled that the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF) signed a Cessation of Hostilities Agreement (CoHA) in South Africa with the view to putting an end to the two-year long conflict in Northern Ethi...
Dr Asma Aweis Abdallah is the medical activity manager with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Baidoa, Somalia. Here she describes the situation the team is responding to. The situation in Somalia is very dire - catastrophic. We are facing one of the worst...
Generation Amazing’s GOAL 22 programme is the first-ever sport for development and cultural youth exchange programme of its kind to take place ahead of a FIFA (www.FIFA.com) World Cup™. They organised a festival in Doha 16-22 November, at Education City, where students are gather...
Cabo Verde will be better able to address the impact of the war in Ukraine and increase resilience to future shocks, particularly climate-related shocks, with a US$52.5 million Development Policy Financing (DPF) approved by the World Bank Board of Executive Directors on November...
