Counterfeit Medicines are a Huge Problem in Many African Countries
Research has shown that many developing countries have a high prevalence of substandard medicines. For instance, up to 88.4% of antimalarials in some African markets have been reported as being fake. Using ineffective medicines causes between 64,000 and 158,000 deaths from malaria every year in sub-Saharan Africa. Work is underway to strengthen governments’ surveillance of […]
South Africa’s Uneducated are Unable to Contribute to the Growth of the Economy
Three million out of South Africa’s 60 million citizens lack basic education. Their lack of literacy and numeracy adversely affects the productivity and profitability of businesses. This, along with other problems related to illiteracy, costs the South African economy $6.7 billion annually, according to a new study by the Australia-based non-profit World Literacy Foundation. What’s […]
North Africa is Getting Hotter at a Faster Rate
Meeting world targets to limit climate change would avert hundreds of thousands of heat-related deaths in the Middle East and North Africa, scientists said on Tuesday, urging the region to adapt better. A modeling study published in The Lancet Planetary Health journal found slashing carbon emissions to limit the rise in Earth’s average temperature to […]
Africa’s Travel Market is Open and Booming
This is a sentiment expressed by an estimated 600 exhibitors at this year’s World Travel Market Africa in Cape Town, South Africa. This after the industry sustained serious damage due to Covid-19. The meeting saw a 35% increase compared to last year, said Carol Weaving, Director of Reed Exhibition Africa. One of the hot topics […]
The Cuppy Fund will Pay to Narrow Resource Gaps for Students Who Need it the Most
Nigerian music producer and performer Florence Otedola, better known as DJ Cuppy, has gifted $125,000 to the Africa Oxford Initiative (AfOx) to support African graduate students at the University of Oxford in the UK. DJ Cuppy who completed a master’s degree in African Studies at Oxford earlier this year says that the Cuppy Fund would […]
Artisanal Miners Face Onerous Obstacles To Become Legal
By Fawzia Moodley Greed, poverty, irresponsible legal mining giants which exploited and then abandoned South Africa’s mines, together with the government’s failure to enforce regulations on the mining giants to rehabilitate mines before closing them, have created fertile ground for a thriving illegal artisanal mining sector called Zama Zama, many of them run by criminal syndicates. […]
