East Africa’s Locust Plague is Covid-19’s Deadly Twin
While tackling the Coronavirus pandemic has grabbed global attention, a new crisis that could claim a lot more lives is brewing in Africa: massive locust invasions. Billions of desert locusts are ravaging countries all across East Africa, including Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, and Djibouti. It has been reported that their numbers are […]
The Case for Postponing Africa’s International Debts
There’s been much coverage in recent weeks about the need for developing countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, to seek debt relief from the multilaterals like World Bank, IMF and other creditors. Rather than ask to completely replay the 1990s when some of the world’s low- and low-middle income countries negotiated debt forgiveness from the Paris […]
Successful Webinar Series Illustrates the Power of the Africa.com Publishers’ Network
Tipped as the largest ever gathering of African business leadership with 15,000 registrants, “Crisis Management for African Business Leaders”, is a five-part webinar series hosted by Africa.com and the faculty of Harvard Business School. The webinar comes at a time when large, medium and small businesses across Africa and the world are faced with uncharted […]
