Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Saturday dropped two ministers he had appointed to his new cabinet just a day earlier, a move widely seen as a response to a public uproar over the nominations. Mnangagwa, 75, named his cabinet overnight…
The President of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) (www.AfDB.org), Akinwumi Adesina, has launched the Presidential Youth Advisory Group (PYAG) to provide insights and innovative solutions for job creation for Africa’s youth, as outlined in the Bank’s Jobs for Youth in…
EnergyNet will host the second Regional Energy Co-operation Summit in Côte d’Ivoire from 24-25 January 2018 – a strategic platform for project evolution and partnership development. The conference will discuss opportunities for cross-border power projects and potential gas investments across…
After unprecedented global success in malaria control, progress has stalled, according to the World malaria report 2017. There were an estimated 5 million more malaria cases in 2016 than in 2015. Malaria deaths stood at around 445 000, a similar number…
Six years after award of contract, a new state-of-the-art cancer centre at the National Hospital has eventually been constructed and commissioned for use. The plan had been in place to replace the previous cancer machine at the hospital with two…
Last Thursday, the New York Times ran an editorial suggesting that the Red Cross should no longer be everyone’s default charity during disasters like the recent hurricane and subsequent flooding in Texas. What might an alternative look like? Perhaps a high-tech billionaire couple…
Nigerian eCommerce giant, Konga has reportedly laid off over 60% of its workforce, in what seems to be a move to drastically reduce operational costs. According to Quartz, “CEO Shola Adekoya informed staff of the cuts yesterday November 30 and…
The latest developments about Michael Flynn are “very, very, very bad,” a source close to the president said, according to NBC News. Flynn pleaded guilty on Friday to lying to the FBI and agreed to cooperate with investigators working on…
OPEC and non-OPEC oil giant Russia have agreed to extend oil output cuts until the end of 2018 following hours of discussions in Vienna, according to two reports. The move was heavily signaled ahead of the decision but the oil…
It was the flood that ensured that Ntonya Sande’s first year as a teenager would also be the first year of her married life. Up to the moment the water swept away her parents’ field in Kachaso in the Nsanje…
