A Youth-Led Campaign of Evidence-Based Activism Seeks to Demonstrate Inequity in Access to Clean Air in Cities
12 August 2022 – The UrbanBetter Cityzens4CleanAir Campaign is a youth-led campaign on clean air and physical activity to support evidence-informed advocacy for healthy climate-resilient public spaces in Cape Town, Lagos, and Accra. The campaign has already run in Cape Town and ran in Accra on Saturday, 3 August; it will run in Lagos in […]
Launching a Local Lesotho Airline within the Next Year
The operation will initially service the Maseru to Johannesburg route with plans to extend to other destinations in South Africa. Mohahlaula Airlines is one of two Lesotho companies holding an airline operating certificate (AOC) which allows the company to apply and operate a fully fledged local airline out of Maseru. Phafane Nkotsi, chief executive officer […]
Providing Support and Acceleration to Women-owned African Tech Startups
The Ethiopia-based Tech African Women (TAW) programme has launched, taking businesses from idea stage to operational. TAW is spearheaded by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), in partnership with Betacube, and invites female-led idea stage startups from Ethiopia, Senegal, Tanzania and Tunisia to submit their applications to join. The programme’s objective is to […]
Journos Fight For their Voices to Be Heard
Tunisia’s free and feisty press counts among the biggest wins of the historic uprising that unleashed the broader Arab Spring—even as it failed to deliver jobs and economic growth. Budding social media both covered and helped drive the spreading protests. The North African country lauded for creating the freest press in the Arab world tumbled […]
Containing a Measles Outbreak in Harare
A measles outbreak in Zimbabwe has killed 80 children since April, with health officials blaming religions that prohibit vaccinations. Measles is a highly infectious but preventable respiratory disease which causes fever and a rash. Cases in Africa surged 400% in the first quarter of this year compared to last year, according to the World Health […]
African Leaders are Increasingly Aspiring to “Modernise” their Cities
There has been a resurgent interest in building so-called “smart”, “modern”, “globally competitive” cities in Africa. Some are seeking to build entirely new cities. But, for the most part, most governments want to put cities on the “map” through large-scale redevelopment or by “modernising” existing city districts. The hope is to strategically position cities in […]
UK to Cut Taxes on Imports from Africa
The UK has launched a scheme to cut tariffs on hundreds of products from some of the world’s poorest countries to try to boost trade links. The preferential terms, which come into effect early next year, will affect products ranging from food to textiles. Under the Developing Countries Trading Scheme, 99% of goods imported from […]
20 African Countries with the Highest Net Migration Rates
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) defines net migration rate as the difference between the immigration and emigration rates in a country during a given timeframe, usually a year. Also, the World Bank defines it as “the number of immigrants minus the number of emigrants, including citizens and noncitizens”. Typically, a country’s net […]
Kenyan Woman’s Campaign to Treat Sickle Cell
For Lea Kilenga, life seemed normal until a new boy at her school encouraged other children not to sit next to her. The incident was her first realisation that there was a stigma to living with sickle cell disease. Kilenga has become a successful advocate for those living with the disease in Kenya, where nearly […]
The Plight of South African Miners Continues
Thousands of people gathered in the South African town of Marikana to mark a decade since dozens of striking workers were killed in the worst act of police violence since the end of apartheid. On August 16, 2012, 34 people were killed and 78 injured when police opened fire on platinum mine workers who had […]
