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African Development Bank, collaborators, launch first Fashionomics Africa online contest for sustainable and innovative circular fashion

Elwin Mandowa,
The African Development Bank’s Fashionomics Africa initiative is launching a competition to support designers of sustainable and circular fashion. The first Fashionomics Africa online contest will invite African fashion brands pursuing environmentally friendly measures, sustainability and circular economy actions to participate. The designer submitting the “best sustainable design” will win $2,000 and other prizes. A four-person judging panel representing the… Read More
Africa Featured World 

Four special envoys and champions announced by Commonwealth

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– – The Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland has today announced the names of four special envoys and champions who will promote the Commonwealth’s values and principles around the world. The four roles will be responsible for portfolio areas covering key issues designed to support and assist the Commonwealth’s 54 countries and 2.5 billion people. The four individuals taking on these new… Read More
Africa Eswatini Southern Africa World 

Prime Minister of Eswatini dies after testing positive for Covid-19

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King Mswati III was crowned in 1986 at the age of 18, succeeding his long-serving father King Sobhuza II, who died at the age of 82. The king rules by decree and has been criticised for the heavy-handed treatment of opponents and for requesting public money to pay for new palaces and luxury cars. Eswatini, located in southern Africa is… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

National Assembly Invitation: X-Raying The Deeper Implications Of Buhari’s Snub By Karl Ogumah

Elwin Mandowa,
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truth and murder respectable, to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind” George Orwell The Orwellian thought above clearly reflect the current political development in our country particularly the very annoying statement of the minister for Justice and Attorney General of the federation on the legality of the National Assembly invitation… Read More
Africa Nigeria News and Headlines World 

Nigeria: Hundreds of pupils missing after gun attack

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– – Hundreds of Nigerian students are reported missing after gunmen attacked the Government Science Secondary School. Over 800 students were in the school when the gunmen arrived on motorbikes and started shooting indiscriminately in the north western part of Nigeria. The Nigerian military has announced that it had exchanged fire with the gunmen after locating their hideout in a forest. There… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Re: Goodluck Jonathan, The Caliphate Ritual Cow And Ayo Oritsejafor Metaphor: A Treatise In Self Contradiction By Achike Chude

Elwin Mandowa,
Dr Nwankwo Tony Nwaezeigwe, PhD, DD. Institute of African Studies/Dept. of History & International Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, recently regaled us with stories about how the 2015 election was won and lost as well as the roles played by certain people, especially some within the political class and some clergymen. Notable in his condemnation for the loss suffered by… Read More
Africa Southern Africa World Zambia 

Zambian woman ‘sues partner for not marrying her’

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– – A Zambian woman who sued her partner for reconciliation on the grounds that she’d been waiting eight years for them to marry has now been advised to try a different legal route, reports the state-owned Sunday Times. It says Getrude Ngoma, 26, who lives in Ndola town located in the country’s Copperbelt region, complained to a local court… Read More
Africa Investments 

Sweet spot: African Development Bank supports Zambian honey exports to South Africa

Elwin Mandowa,
Zambezi Gold Honey has been selling its table honey on the South African market for the last three years. The company’s breakthrough into the export market, partially thanks to the Trade and Institutional Capacity Building in the Apiculture Sector (TICBAS) project supported by the African Development Bank. The project, implemented by SNV Zambia, received funding of $428,000 between 2015 and… Read More
Africa Investments 

Road users in Ghana see life-changing impact as Bank-funded jumbo road interchange partially opens

Elwin Mandowa,
Pointing overhead to the imposing structure of concrete pillars and tiered, swirling highways, 63-year-old Ayorkor Baka, like many others, welcomes the new interchange, saying it will cut pedestrian fatalities on the road linking Accra and Nsawam. The bridge, the first of its kind in West Africa, is a crucial link between the capital and the middle belt via Ghana’s second-largest… Read More
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