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ABU DHABI/ WAM The Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DoH), the regulator of the healthcare sector in the Emirate, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Burjeel Holdings during GITEX Global Week 2023, in line with Abu Dhabi’s digital transformation efforts. The agreement seeks to leverage the latest breakthrough technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions to enhance patient and ...

DUBAI/ WAM The Emirati Talent Competitiveness Council (ETCC) has announced the partnership with Presight, the region’s leading big data analytics company powered by generative artificial intelligence, during GITEX Global 2023. Under this partnership, Presight will create a single, easy-to-use, comprehensive, and holistic data platform for the Emirati workforce for ETCC that will integrate multiple large sets of workforce data, combined ...

DERNA/ WAM The UAE sent a plane to Benghazi International Airport in Libya today, carrying 3 tonnes of meningitis and influenza vaccines. The vaccines will be then transferred to the Libyan city of Derna in coordination with the Libyan health authorities. The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC) delegation announced that the medical shipment includes 90,000 doses of meningitis and influenza vaccines ...

ABU DHABI/ WAM As part of its ongoing “Tarahum – for Gaza” campaign, the UAE today sent an aircraft carrying 68 tonnes of food supplies and relief aid to Al Areesh, Egypt, in preparation for transport into Gaza Strip through the Rafah Border Crossing, in cooperation with the UN World Food Programme (WFP). The shipment is part of UAE’s ongoing ...

DUBAI/ WAM Abdullah bin Touq Al Marri, Minister of Economy, stressed that the UAE is currently witnessing a growing momentum in all economic sectors and hosting major economic conferences and events, noting that the directives of President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE ...

ABU DHABI/ WAM Participating as part of the Abu Dhabi Government’s pavilion at GITEX 2023, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) – the world’s first graduate-level artificial intelligence (AI) university dedicated to research – has embodied the event’s AI theme by unveiling two new centres and an institute, inking a number of key partnerships, and addressing AI’s role in ...

ABU DHABI/ WAM Under the patronage of H.H. Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women’s Union (GWU), President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, and Supreme Chairwoman of the Family Development Foundation (FDF), the “Mother of the Nation,” the GWU today hosted an event to launch The Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot ...

ABU DHABI/ WAM Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, COP28 President-Designate and UAE Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology, affirmed, in alignment with the vision of the UAE’s leadership, the conference presidency places great emphasis on the role of religious leaders and figures. It ensures their active contribution to global efforts aimed at addressing the implications of climate change and finding ...

ABU DHABI/ WAM H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE Minister of Foreign Affairs, discussed during a phone call with Romanian Foreign Minister, Luminita Odobescu, the latest developments in the region and ways to establish safe corridors to deliver humanitarian assistance to civilians. The two top diplomats while discussing the ongoing regional and international efforts to contain the situation ...

REYKJAVIK/ WAM Dr. Sultan bin Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and COP28 President, delivered a keynote address at the opening session of the 2023 Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik, Iceland, highlighting the dangerous impact of climate change on fragile, Arctic ecosystems and calling on nations to support the COP28 Action Agenda to keep the Paris Agreement ...