Joining the YouthConnekt Africa Summit 2022. An article by Sofonie Dala

  The YouthConnekt Africa Summit 2022 Concluded

Hello World!

Welcome Everyone To Our Summit!

Thousands of African youth left the just concluded YouthConnekt Africa 2022 Summit (YCAS) in Kigali, Rwanda with their heads held high, after three-days of discussions and assurances from world leaders and experts on how they can lead Africa’s development efforts. The summit brought together over 10,000 youth delegates representing 98 countries from across Africa and beyond.

“Don’t believe the story that you’re the leaders of tomorrow. Be the leaders of today.”

The digital entrepreneur Sofonie Dala also had the privilege of attending the summit during these 3 fantastic days. She was eager to harness continental opportunities and actively contribute to Africa’s socio-economic transformation.

A little piece of the event

“Young people don't have access to funding they need to run their business. Sometimes for those young people their dreams remain a hobby. Africa’s prosperity needs supercharging with youth as an engine for growth.”

The President of the Republic of Rwanda Paul Kagame opened the largest at BK Arena gathering thousands of young Africans and delegates from other continents and was joined by Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua of Kenya for an interaction with over 9,000 youth from across the continent.

About YouthConnekt Africa

YouthConnekt Africa is a continental initiative with the mission to empower young people by enhancing their knowledge, experiences and skills while investing in their ideas, innovations and initiatives to harness Africa’s demographic dividend which aims at contributing to the achievement of Africa’s SDGs mandate, the AU 2063 agenda, and AU Youth Charter.

It was initiated in 2012 by the Government of Rwanda in partnership with the UNDP and is a multifaceted youth empowerment model focused on leveraging youth employability, entrepreneurship and civic engagement through innovation.

In the next few days, we will be posting more content about the 3 days of the summit. Stay tuned on our platform, don't miss out!

Kwasi Kwarteng fired after just 38 days as Chancellor of the Exchequer

 THIS JUST IN – Prime Minister Liz Truss has fired Kwasi Kwarteng as speculated earlier.

Mr Kwarteng’s downfall was set in motion by the mini-budget on 23 September, in which he announced £45bn in unfunded tax cuts.

The mini-budget pushed the pound to a record low against the dollar, sent the cost of government borrowing and mortgage rates up and led to an unprecedented intervention by the Bank of England.

Ms Truss and Mr Kwarteng insisted that the turbulence in the UK economy was part of a global problem exacerbated by the war in Ukraine and post-pandemic recovery.

But last week, after open revolt by Tory MPs and a record surge for Labour in the polls, the prime minister announced the first major reversal of mini-budget policies when she backtracked on scrapping the 45p top rate of income tax.

The second U-turn came on Friday morning when the government said it would raise corporation tax from 19% to 25% next April, despite promising not to do so in the mini-budget.

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BURKINA FASO – Chaos brewing as transition process threatened with demonstrations

THIS JUST IN – Young Burkinabe leader Captain Ibrahim Traore wants to return to the barracks after his coup d’etat last month that removed another coupster Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba.

After famously declaring that a soldier’s place is in the barracks and not at the presidential palace on October 2, and yet still officially appointed president on October 6, the young Captain insisted on going forward with a transitional charter that would appoint another person to lead the country through the transitional process.

The plan is that, after the transitional charter has been launched on Friday October 14, it would lead to the designation of a new leader to head the transitional process towards the next presidential elections.

    

But yesterday, on the eve of the launching of the transitional charter, the youth hit the streets of capital Ouagadougou and the southwestern city of Bobo-Dioulasso demanding that the transitional process be aborted to allow the young Captain to remain the leader of the Sahel country.

This morning, the demonstration has continued with the youth this time unsuccessfully attacking the conference center where the proceedings were taking place to enact the transitional charter.

The police has for the moment succeeded in stopping the attack on the conference center to stop the process. But DNT’s man on the ground Jiluis Ouya reports that no one knows how this will end.

Stay tuned for updates on the situation in Ouagadougou.

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Zanzibar swimming crabs deaths being investigated

 Zanzibar’s government is investigating why thousands of dead swimming crabs have washed up on the beaches of the Tanzanian islands.

Since 28 September, there have been reports of the dead crabs washing ashore at Mtoni, Mizingani and Forodhani public beaches.

The government is urging people not to worry it might be caused by pollution.

Reports indicate climate change leading to an abrupt change in the temperature of the sea might be to blame.

“Some living things like the swimming crabs cannot resist sudden changes in the sea, and they die and wash ashore,” Dr Salum Soud, a marine biologist and Zanzibar’s director of development and fisheries, he said.

“Ocean waters have layers of temperatures and so the waves force water underneath to go up, thus may cause low oxygen hence the crabs are likely to face death,” he added.

The mass deaths of the crabs is not an isolated incident, according to Sheha Mjaja Juma, Director General of the Zanzibar Environment Management Authority (Zema), who told Tanzania’s the citizen paper it had also happened in Seychelles.

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Pelosi about Trump: “I’m gonna punch him out, go to jail, and be happy”

 New remarkable, previously unseen video of events during the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol showed an irate House Leader Nancy Pelosi vowing to “punch” Trump out if he made his way to “trespass on the Capitol grounds.”

The new video further shows how, for a brief moment, legislators on both sides of the political divide displayed uncommon comradery and genuine care for each other when their collective lives were under attack by the Trump crowd that had invaded the United States Capitol.

Pelosi was seen expressing what appeared to be genuine concern to Vice President Mike Pence with whom she had previously bantered over policy.

Meanwhile Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was seen in a huddle with Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer where he urged the acting Secretary of Defense to mobilize security to get to the Capitol “in one bit of a hurry, understand?”

Senate and House leaders on both sides put partisanship aside and worked remarkably well to reconvene to certify the election results that sealed the fate of President Trump and his efforts to overturn the election results.

DNT News

 

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