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What Africa needs from COP26

As world leaders meet in Glasgow for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, Africa needs decisive collective action rather than…

Time for the US to rethink its sanctions strategy on Zimbabwe?

Zimbabwe will reach two decades under United States economic sanctions in December this year. The sanctions have had a debilitating…

A global supply chain in crisis

There are an estimated 170 million shipping containers across the globe transporting 90% of the world’s goods. Quarantines, lockdowns, labour…

Lessons from Zimbabwe’s tobacco farmers for the COP26 climate change talks

Zimbabwe is ranked in the top 20 countries in the world most affected by extreme weather between 2000 and 2019.…

In sub-Saharan Africa, we need to look harder for TB

Before COVID-19 came along, tuberculosis (TB) was a primary focus of health authorities in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2019, approximately 1.4 million…

Even in the Covid-19 era, opportunities abound in South Africa’s construction sector

Construction is a proven resilient industry and this is made clear in the various opportunities that are possible to help…

Charting Africa’s digital future

The outbreak of Covid-19 has underscored the necessity for nations to rethink existing economic models and laid bare the weaknesses…

Why Zimbabwe’s economic growth projection is false

Ncube deliberately did not include the number of jobs bled through the Covid-19 national lockdown over the past 15 months.

Why Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana need to do more to help cocoa farmers

How can Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire increase cocoa growers share of earnings from the final product?

Nigeria’s Twitter ban: Challenging the rules of engagement

As Nigeria’s Twitter ban shows, online platforms are the new battleground between governments and their critics.