The Barbados-based Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) has launched a regional tourism education and awareness campaign (RTEAC) aimed at fostering a discussion on climate resilience and sustainability on both the regional and international stage. The CTO said that the initiative is dedicated to the memory of its former employee, Bonita Morgan, “a beloved regional champion of tourism education and human resource development” who died last month.
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Kenya will no longer take financial assistance from the Netherlands as it feels its economy has become strong enough. The ambassador from Kenya met the Dutch government officials at the Kings residence on Friday, he said that the Dutch government will remain a very important trading partner to Kenya and that the strong relationship between both the countries will remain strong.
The Head of the European Union (EU), delegation to Nigeria and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Ketil Karlsen, on Wednesday, said the Nigeria, EU trade increased from about €19.9 billion in 2016 to about €25.3 billion in 2017. Karlsen stated this in Abuja, while briefing journalists on the activities of the European Union in partnership with Nigeria on elections, security, anti-corruption, migration, investment and economic development in 2018, he said from 2015 -2017 the European Union has spent €144 million in humanitarian support in the northeast and has set aside € 34 million in 2018.
Experts from all the 6 ACP regions Cariforum, Pacific, Southern Africa, West Africa, Central Africa and Eastern Africa gathered on 24-25 April 2018 in Brussels to discuss natural risk management and climate change challenges in ACP countries. As the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States include some of the most disaster-prone and climate-vulnerable nations in the world, the meeting served as a solid framework to guide the ACP group’s follow up strategy for Disaster Risk Management for the next 5-year period 2018-2023.