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Harare’s New Scheme to Curb an Economic Collapse
South Africa Closes Off Youth Month on a Tragic Note
Activists Want Morocco to Account for Border Deaths
The Digital Economy as an Important Driver of Long-term Growth in Africa
The Work Must Continue… Equity & Innovation for Africa’s Recovery
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Africa’s Largest Healthcare Event Gears Up For A Return To In-Person Business In 2022
June 29, 2022
With Africa’s economies and health systems beginning to recover from the devastating COVID-19 pandemic, the region’s focus must once again return to meeting the healthcare goals and standards set out in the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals. These include improving maternal care, reducing child mortality rates, and achieving continent-wide UHC coverage. Similarly, to achieve the SDG goals to which African nations have committed – especially Goal 3, which envisions UHC, good health and well-being across all ages by 2030 – Africa will have to prioritise the accessibility, quality and resilience of its healthcare systems going forward. Despite bearing 25% of
Tobacco Consumption Slows In The West, Grows In Africa, Say Researchers
June 28, 2022
By Ignatius Banda Cigarette smuggling has emerged as one of the most lucrative enterprises between Zimbabwe and South Africa, with border authorities seizing contraband worth millions of dollars in recent years. Last month, South African police confiscated cigarettes worth ZAR1,7 million (about USD105,000) from Zimbabwean smugglers who have taken advantage of porous border controls between the two southern African countries for years. In November last year, another Zimbabwean was nabbed as he attempted to smuggle cigarettes worth ZAR30 million (about USD1,850,000) into South Africa, where there is a ready and expanding market for cigarettes. The following month, another Zimbabwean was caught attempting to smuggle cigarettes
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Standard Bank Boosts Employees’ Efforts To Uplift Communities
June 29, 2022
Spokesperson: Kirston Greenop, Head: Regulatory Advocacy, Stakeholder Engagement and CSI at Standard Bank Standard Bank is partnering with its employees in realising the bank’s vision of supporting local communities through its Rand4Rand initiative. The bank
While Africa Does Have Many Entrepreneurs, Are They The Right Kind?
June 29, 2022
While Africa does have many entrepreneurs, are they the right kind, asks Adam Molai, an African industrialist and founder of TRT Investments which manages a diversified sector portfolio and operations in Nigeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique
AWIEF2022: First 30+ Speakers Revealed
June 29, 2022
The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) has announced the first 30+ speakers for their annual conference and awards set to take place as a hybrid event in Cairo, Egypt, on the 26 and
The Convenience Economy
June 29, 2022
South Africans and the rest of the world have witnessed unexpected hikes in the cost of living, as evidenced by record fuel prices and inflated costs elsewhere. Because many customers are being forced to reconsider
MzVee – 10Thirty Album Officially Out
June 28, 2022
By: Senanu Damilola Wemakor Born Vera Hamenoo-Kpeda, highly-acclaimed Ghanaian singer MzVee has officially released her highly-anticipated fifth studio album dubbed ’10Thirty’. The body of work comes as MzVee celebrates 10 years in the music industry
The Ngoma Africa Band – East Africa´s Golden Voices And Most Wanted Band
June 28, 2022
The Ngoma Africa Band aka FFU also known as Anunnaki aliens, is East Africa´s most wanted band in Europe. The German based band gained its popularity through their extraordinary stage performance on festivals and other
Rise to the challenge: building intelligent enterprises in West Africa
June 28, 2022
by Titilayo Adewumi, Regional Sales Director for West Africa at SAP LAGOS, Nigeria, 28th June 2022 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- The past few years have been a wake-up call to businesses to speed up their digital transformation
Put women’s rights ‘front and centre’ of climate policies: Bachelet
June 28, 2022
NEW YORK, USA, 28 June 2022-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Although climate change threatens everyone, women and girls often suffer its harshest and most violent consequences, UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Monday. “While I
Libya: UN highlights need to speed up progress towards national elections
June 27, 2022
Leaders in Libya must resolve outstanding issues so that long-awaited presidential and parliamentary elections can finally be held, UN political affairs chief Rosemary DiCarlo told the Security Council on Monday. “The United Nations’ priority in
Crypto Derivatives Leader Bybit Tackles Bear Market by Settling Options in USDC
June 27, 2022
VICTORIA, Seychelles, 27 June 2022 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- Bybit, a cryptocurrency exchange with one of the largest BTC futures open interest, is settling its options trading market in one of the world’s most trusted stablecoins: USDC. Unlike
Global hunger crisis pushing one child per minute, into severe malnutrition
June 24, 2022
NEW YORK, USA, 24 June 2022-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Because of the global hunger crisis, every single minute, one child is pushed into life-threatening, severe malnutrition. That’s the alarming message on Thursday from UN Children’s Fund UNICEF,
Cabo Verde: ‘Unprecedented’ food insecurity triggers social and economic emergency
June 23, 2022
The island nation of Cabo Verde is facing record levels of food insecurity due to drought, the COVID-19 pandemic and the conflict in Ukraine, affecting some 181,000 people, or 32 per cent of the country,
Conflict, drought, and dwindling food support threaten 20 million Ethiopian lives
June 23, 2022
unger is tightening its grip on more than 20 million Ethiopians who are facing conflict in the north, drought in the south and dwindling food and nutrition support beginning next month, the UN food relief
March to Kigali Movement with Over 300 Supporters Calls on Leaders to Eliminate Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) in Africa
June 23, 2022
Every two minutes, an African child dies from malaria. The continent accounts for over 90% of global malaria deaths and over 40 per cent of the global burden of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). The Kigali Summit is a historic
Beyond Recovery: tech’s role in building a fit-for-purpose East African economy
June 23, 2022
by Hardeep Sound, Regional Sales Director for East Africa at SAP NAIROBI, Kenya, 23rd June 2022 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- Following the easing of lockdown restrictions in East Africa, regional economies have worked hard at making up
Novartis Renews Commitment to Neglected Tropical Disease and Malaria Elimination, Investing USD 250 Million over Five Years to Research and Develop New Treatments
June 23, 2022
Novartis endorses the Kigali Declaration on neglected tropical diseases, pledging USD 250 million to advance R&D of new treatments against NTDs and malaria over five years Commitment includes USD 100 million to advance R&D for Chagas disease, leishmaniasis, dengue,
‘De facto lethargy’ in Central African Republic, despite escalating attacks
June 22, 2022
Efforts are underway to reinvigorate the Central African Republic’s political process, which has lapsed into a state of “de facto lethargy” even as horrific attacks against civilians have risen, the senior UN official in
Mali: Guterres ‘shocked and outraged’ by reports of civilian massacres
June 22, 2022
The Secretary-General issued a statement on Wednesday expressing his shock and outrage over reports that well over a hundred civilians have been killed in the past week, during attacks by armed extremists in central Mali,