Jobs Creation Commission (JCC) and Huawei signed a memorandum of understanding to cultivate ICT talent ecosystem in Ethiopia. The ecosystem will help students and professional to get internationally recognized certification and develop better carrier path in telecom and IT sector.
Under this collaboration, Huawei’s training and certification will build a career path for new graduates, students, equip entrepreneurs with the latest trends in the industry. The Ecosystem will also accredit local work force with international standards through Job Creation Commissions skill development, entrepreneurship and oversees employment programs.
This program is planned to train and certify 800 professionals in the first year and 4000 with in the coming 3 years to be competent professionals in the local and international Labor market. In the first year of rollout, Huawei – JCC ICT Ecosystem aims to raise awareness from the pubic, promote job opportunity’s, training and certifications with 40 universities that will be scaled up to cover 100 Universities and TVET institutions in the next three years.
JCC, Huwaei collaborate to cultivate ICT Talent Ecosystem
AU holds global conference to accelerate African vaccine development
African leaders assembled at a global meeting to discuss the status of local pharmaceutical manufacturing on the continent, underscored the need to increase local production of vaccines and therapeutics to achieve greater public-health security.
“The production of vaccines and access to vaccines is an absolute priority,” Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa, said Monday in opening remarks at the start of the two-day virtual meeting, convened by the African Union.
The meeting was attended by several African heads of state, health, finance and trade ministers from across the continent, as well as officials from global financial institutions, foundations, pharmaceutical manufacturers, business leaders, and the general public. The African Development Bank was represented by Solomon Quaynor, Vice President Private Sector, Infrastructure and Industrialization.
Political leaders highlight green investment best practice
The Secretary General of East African Community joined more than 150 African business leaders, financial experts and diplomats in the Nairobi EU-Africa Green Talk to share investment best practice and outline how to mobilise private sector support for sustainable development across Africa.
“Recent innovative investment across East Africa has transformed access for millions of people to clean water, renewable energy and finance essential for a better and more sustainable future. Today’s Nairobi Green Talks allow innovative solutions and technical best-practice to be shared with the rest of Africa and the world. The East African Community commends the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union and the European Investment Bank for their engagement with East African partners to further strengthen sustainable investment in the years ahead.” said Dr Peter Mathuki, incoming Secretary General of the East African Community.
Participants highlighted how recent and future private sector led clean energy, sustainable transport and business investment across East Africa can unlock economic opportunities, strengthen resilience to COVID-19, increase protection from a changing climate and ensure more sustainable use of resources in the future.
Coca-Cola rolls out Sprite in new clear PET plastic packaging
The Coca-Cola system in Ethiopia officially unveiled the new iconic look of its leading sparkling lemon-lime flavored soft drink, Sprite, in a clear polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic bottle packaging. The latest shift from its iconic green bottle means more Sprite bottles can be collected, recycled and reused to make new ones, a move that is part of Coca-Cola’s World Without Waste vision, which targets to collect and recycle the equivalent of every bottle or can it sells and use 50% recycled content in all its packaging by 2030.
“People can enjoy the same great taste of their favourite sparkling lemon-lime drink knowing their bottle can be easily recycled and made into new bottles,” said Daryl Wilson, Managing Director, Coca-Cola Beverages Africa Ethiopia during the launch.
Clear PET can be made into a wide range of new products, such as pillow and duvet inners, as well as into new bottles, making it more valuable than green PET, which has limited uses.
