Infrastructure, institutions, and the systems that make growth possible — or not.
On the 27th April 2019 China hosted 37 countries at its Belt and Road Summit - the largest gathering of world leaders in a sweeping move to affirm its bulging world influence. In attendance were Russia's Vladimir Putin, Italy’s PM Conte, Singapore’s PM Lee Hsien Loong,
Just a month after Cyclone Idai killed more than 1000 people in Mozambique, destroyed the coastal city of Beira, and left hundreds of thousands of people displaced, another tropical storm has hit the country: Cyclone Kenneth. Kenneth, a category 3 cyclone, came packing winds of 201km/h (125mph) and struck
The days in Africa when marijuana was referred to as the ‘devil’s grass’ are gradually fading away like smoke from a dead fireplace. We have now understood that the plant is of great importance and the only way to best appreciate it is to regulate its growth and usage.
Transportation is a big problem in many rural areas in Kenya which tend to be some of the country's major food baskets. With money being siphoned from public coffers into the private accounts of many national and county leaders thus resulting into stalled projects and lack of development,
Tanzanian start-up Ubongo, an education and entertainment (edutainment) media platform that reaches millions of families through accessible technologies, has won the ‘Next Billion’ Edtech Prize at the 2019 edition of the Global Education & Skills Forum. The Next Billion Edtech Prize is an award launched by The Varkey Foundation which
Students from Africa, for many years, have been in the pursuit of high-quality education offered all over the world. Motivated by strong aspirations and career opportunities, the African students are looking beyond what their home country can provide. Study abroad experience can have a profound impact on the individual: from
The birth of a first child is supposed to usher in a celebratory atmosphere, bringing joy and profound happiness to not only the mother but also the entire family. Unfortunately, this is not the case for one young South African mother, Kagiso Kgatla, 19, who is grief-stricken after what was
Burundian authorities have charged three schoolgirls accused of defacing a picture of President Pierre Nkurunziza, spokeswoman for the country’s Supreme Court, Agnès Bangiricenge, said on Thursday. The three girls were among seven school children arrested last week in Kirundo province, in Burundi’s northeast and some 200 kilometres from
The Government of Botswana on Monday announced its plans to start providing students in all pre-schools and primary schools with breakfast. The initiative was made following the recommendations of a task team set up in 2013 to "come up with a menu that provides nutrients to promote optimal health,
The World Bank and the African Development Bank will both pull resources to the tune of more than $47 billion by 2025 to help African countries tackle the effects of climate change. Both made the pledge in a yet more strategic effort to mitigate the effect of climate change on
In 2017, Eastern Cape provincial legislator, Vicky Knoetze suggested that the province use plastic to build roads. Her idea was rejected then but the Kouga Municipality has come around in 2019. South Africa's Kouga Municipality is bringing a plastic road to Africa in a move calculated to cut
One of Zimbabwe's best human rights lawyers, Beatrice Mtetwa, has been honoured by Harvard Law School for inspiring change in the world. She is an honouree of Harvard Law School's list of women inspiring change in the world. This is a celebration of women who are
The government of Rwanda has caught the attention of the world after it announced earlier this week, through the Ministry of ICT and Innovation, that the country will launch a satellite that will provide broadband internet to schools in remote areas. Dubbed ‘Icyerekezo’ by students of Groupe Secondaire St Pierre
In Davos, Ken Goldman, a former Yahoo Chief Financial Officer stood up for the rich and argued that a panel discussing the role of taxes in economic development was one-sided. He said, "The U.S. basically has the lowest unemployment rate ever, the lowest Black unemployment rate ever, the
Just a few days ago, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Pretoria made it known that the university was phasing out Afrikaans as a means of instruction and communication. However, the finance minister of South Africa, Tito Mboweni, controversially said that he was against the idea of Afrikaans being scrapped
Report by Alfred P. B. Kiadii, [email protected] (Monrovia, Liberia—January 22, 2019)--When President George M. Weah announced that all public universities in Liberia will be given a tuition waver and thus his government will foot the bill in order to alleviate students of the burden of paying tuition,
