The Government of Austria has decided to provide humanitarian assistance worth 6.5 million Euros to five African countries, including Egypt, South Sudan, Uganda, Chad and Ethiopia, to assist in the provision of humanitarian needs resulting from the crisis of sheltering refugees and Climate problems.

Twenty-seven of the world’s leading oil industry chief executives will gather, in Abu Dhabi, on 11th November, to discuss the impact of digitalisation, technology and the Fourth Industrial Age on the future of the global oil and gas industry.

The Board of Trustees of the UAE Water Aid Foundation (Suqia), under the umbrella of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, held its second meeting for this year, chaired by Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board of Trustees.

The current dispute over trade tariffs between Tanzania and Kenya is unlikely to escalate, as otherwise it would negatively affect both economies, Francis Lukwaro, the chairman of the Dar Es Salaam Regional Chamber at the Tanzania Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture, told Sputnik

Russia will consider deliveries of air defense systems to Uganda, if the African country makes such a request, the Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) told Sputnik on Thursday.

An office of the Russian-Ugandan Intergovernmental Commission on Economy and Scientific and Technical Cooperation opened in Kampala on Tuesday with officials from both sides attending the ceremony.

UK aid programs, including those fighting poverty and mitigating climate change, have been affected by the dramatic decrease in the value of the pound since the 2016 Brexit referendum, Unearthed, Greenpeace's journalist team, said on Tuesday.