Mozambicans Rebuild After Deadly Cyclone Freddy
Mertina Balele and her husband, Lucas Murrure, watched in horror as flooding caused by Cyclone Freddy wrecked the 15ha of groundnuts, maize, beans and cassava that they had just planted. When the cyclone, one of the deadliest recorded worldwide, hit Mozambique for the second time in 2023, it made landfall just north of Vilankulo, not […]
COP28 UAE Presidency To Convene World-Leading Economists In The UAE To Drive Progress On The Reform Of International Finance
The COP28 Presidency has announced that it will convene the Independent High-Level Expert Group (IHLEG) on Climate Finance in the UAE this week to drive progress on steps to reform international finance ahead of COP28. The two-day meeting from 15-16 August, held at the Abu Dhabi Global Markets (ADGM), will bring together world-leading economists, private […]
An Act Of Faith – A New Ceramics Exhibition At Spier June 2023
When you hear the word ‘ceramics’, you probably don’t think of magic. But working with this unpredictable medium is equal parts sorcery, artistry and, ultimately, acts of faith. A ceramicist can never be sure that what comes out of the kiln will resemble what they put in. As Christian Buchner – who will be featured […]
Absa CIB Banks On Digital Trade, Becoming First African Bank To Join Contour’s Production Network
Contour, the leading digital trade finance network, announced that leading Pan-African bank, Absa Corporate and Investment Bank (CIB), is the first African bank to officially join its growing production network. Absa CIB is positioning itself at the forefront of digital developments by being a part of Contour’s digital trade finance network. Many of Africa’s trade […]
Political Will And Investment Will Score The Goal For Zero Hunger
By Busani Bafana A world free from hunger is possible, but it demands political will, investment, and effective policies to transform agriculture and rural development, says Alvaro Lario, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). More than 800 million people in the world went to bed hungry in 2022, and 3.1 billion others could […]
Exodus of Healthcare Workers from Nigeria, Ghana and Zimbabwe continues, despite WHO Red List
The “red list”, launched in 2020 with plans to update it every three years, includes Nigeria, Ghana, Zimbabwe and 34 other African countries. Yet the UK’s nursing regulator, the Nursing and Midwifery Council, says more than 7,000 Nigerian nurses relocated to the UK between 2021 and 2022. Data from the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives […]
The Possible Trial of Former Nigerien President was a Hot Topic in Niamey on Monday
Niger’s military says it will prosecute deposed President Mohamed Bazoum for treason, hours after a group of senior Islamic scholars said the country’s coup leaders are open to diplomacy to resolve their standoff with West Africa’s regional bloc. In a statement read out on national television late on Sunday, a spokesman for Niger’s military laid […]
Malagasy Officials Nabbed in UK
The Madagascan president’s chief-of-staff has been charged in the UK with seeking a bribe from a gem mining firm. Romy Andrianarisoa and an associate are accused of offering the British firm Gemfields licences in Madagascar in return for around £225,000. She and her associate, Philippe Tabuteau, have been charged with requesting, agreeing to receive or […]
A Decade Later Egyptian Authorities have Failed to Hold anyone Accountable for the Largest Mass Killing in Egypt’s Modern History
Rights groups called on Monday for accountability over the deaths of hundreds of people killed in a single day 10 years ago when Egyptian security forces dispersed a protest against the ouster of the country’s first democratically elected president. The clearing of the Rabaa al-Adawiya sit-in in Cairo on Aug. 14, 2013, marked the escalation […]
Safe and Effective Implementation of Telemedicine for Early Medical Abortion in South Africa
A recent study examined the acceptability of implementing telemedicine (remote medical care using technology) for early medical abortion in South Africa. The goal of the study was to understand how people in South Africa felt about using telemedicine and whether it could be a viable option for expanding access to safe and legal abortion services. […]
