A Taste Of Things To Come
Oppenheimer Generations in partnership with the African Wildlife Economy Institute and Michelin Star Chef, Jan Hendrik van der Westhuizen treat guests to a Taste of Game and provide food for thought on growing wildlife economies. An immersive sensory experience was in store for those who entered the grass boma dotted with cooking fires. As the sun bathed the acacias […]
Extreme Weather The New Normal If Global Warming Increases At Current Speed
By Franck Kuwonu Rondrotiana Barimalala is a climate researcher at the University of Cape Town in South Africa and a lead author for the IPCC report to the recently released Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report titled Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. The report says we can act on climate change but warns that time is […]
Meet Nyaradzo Moyo, a Zimbabwean Food Entrepreneur
For the first time affordable, vegan and vegetarian food options are available on the dining and takeaway scene from her chain of restaurants. When 29-year-old Moyo came back to Zimbabwe after studying photography at Stellenbosch University in South Africa she was surprised at the lack of healthy food options in Harare. “I had gone vegan […]
The Growing Size of African Pension Pots
On the kampala skyline workers can watch their savings climb into the air. Pension Towers, an office complex financed by the state-run provident fund, will be one of Uganda’s tallest buildings. Work began in 2008 and has been marred by fatal accidents, corruption allegations and budget overruns. The skyscraper illustrates the growing size of African […]
Egyptians Abroad are Investing in Life Back Home
Real estate growth, the pandemic and GCC economies are among the factors affecting remittances that Egypt receives every year from Egyptians abroad: a key source of much-needed hard currency. Amr Mahmoud, an Egyptian pharmacist who lives in Saudi Arabia, bought an apartment back home five years ago and doesn’t rule out the possibility of purchasing […]
Ex Lawmaker’s Desperate Act Inside Malawi Parliament
A former deputy speaker in Malawi on Thursday shot himself in the head inside parliament, where he had gone for a meeting, parliament said. Clement Chiwaya, who was 50, killed himself inside the parliament building, where he had gone to discuss vehicle benefits entitled to him when he left office in 2019. Police spokesperson James […]
A Threat to Cameroon’s Blue Economy Development
In Cameroon there is growing awareness that there’s a direct relationship between illegal and unregulated activity in the fisheries sector, and maritime security in the waters off the country’s coast. Like most countries along Africa’s Atlantic coast, addressing illegal fishing and fisheries crimes is challenging for Cameroon. Earlier this year the European Commission called out […]
Delayed Justice for Gambians Who Suffered Under a Dictatorship
The long-awaited findings of a probe into crimes committed under The Gambia’s former longtime leader Yahya Jammeh have been delayed, investigators said. A panel called the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) was scheduled to ceremonially hand over its findings to President Adama Barrow on Thursday. But the final report will now be released at […]
Mogadishu’s On the Mend with New Medical Facility
Somalia’s first large-scale factory producing much-needed medical oxygen has been opened in the capital, Mogadishu. The plant, which is at the city’s main child and maternal health hospital, was made possible through a collaboration between the government and the Hormuud Salaam Foundation (HSF), a charity set up by a large telecoms company. It will produce […]
Uganda’s Teaching Profession Lost to the Pandemic
The Economic Policy Research Centre, a thinktank in Kampala, reported in May that 85% of private schools were not paying full teacher salaries due to financial challenges brought on by Covid-19. About 40% of Uganda’s primary schools and 60% of its secondaries are private institutions, run by individuals, religious organisations, charities and businesses, with no […]
