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Fighting Climate Change in Africa With Innovative Financing {Business Africa}

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This week, Business Africa takes a journey across the continent telling stories of bounty harvests, debt relief and innovative financing solutions to the global challenge of climate change. – Financing Green Economies – Climate change could push more than 100 million people below the poverty line by 2030 within developing countries. And yet with limited resources including finance, chances of… Read More
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Guinea’s opposition urges ECOWAS intervention as vote looms

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Guinea’s main opposition leader called on neighboring West African states to help to stop a political crisis in Guinea where President Alpha Conde is running for a third term in the October elections. The 15-nation West African group known as ECOWAS supports democracy in the region and has recently pressed Mali’s junta, who seized power last month, to return the… Read More
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Malawi: Dire costs for campaign amid virus – experts

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Officials and experts are sounding the alarm as Malawi shifts to top campaign gear with giant rallies for an unprecedented presidential re-run despite the coronavirus pandemic. Malawi University of Science and Technology virologist Gama Bandawe warned that the consequences would be dire. “It effectively leaves us to face the full unmitigated force of the pandemic,” he told AFP. He said… Read More

Africa coronavirus: DRC’s returnees from Europe, Zim lockdown extended

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The coronavirus pandemic has been confirmed in over 180 countries globally since it was first discovered in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late December 2019. The World Health Organisation, WHO, has since declared it a pandemic due to its spread. All African countries except Lesotho have since recorded cases as governments roll out measures to combat the spread. In… Read More

Meditation & daily naps, one entrepreneur’s tips for remote working in the UAE

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A Gallup poll of recent years, suggests that only around 15% of the world’s full-time workers are truly engaged. The research also showed that millennials ranked amongst the most dissatisfied, due to factors such as old management practices. Global self-isolation and work lockdowns of late, have prompted many to assess their personal and professional happiness. Some people have looked to… Read More

No new COVID-19 cases in Tunisia – Authorities

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*No new Covid-19 cases have been registered in Tunisia for the past five days, the country’s authorities said Friday, after a further easing of the curfew, and the reopening of supermarkets throughout the country. In a statement issued late Thursday evening, the Tunisian Ministry of Health said it had recorded “zero new coronavirus cases for the fifth consecutive day”. The… Read More

Africa’s persona non grata diplomacy: Burundi sacks WHO experts

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Diplomacy is a delicate business that is duly defined as the ‘art of dealing with people in a tactful way’, and comes in handy on occasions where different countries’ interests collide. African nations play host to several diplomats, who weigh in on the affairs of their hosts’ governments, and in the process take the risk of unsettling the relations between… Read More
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