Tag:Africa

Health

World Bank, AU agree to deploy COVID-19 vaccines for 400m Africans

President of the World Bank, Mr David Malpass, and his senior management team comprised of Dr Axel van Trotsenburg and Dr Makhtar Diop met...

Michael Simire - June 14, 2021

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COVID-19: G7 institutions, partners to recover, grow Africa with $80bn

The G7 Development Finance Institutions (DFIs), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the African Development Bank (AfDB), European Bank for...

Michael Simire - June 14, 2021

Climate Change

Climate change: Africa faces drought, hunger, mass migration – Experts

Nearly half of Africa’s population could face a future of widespread drought, hunger and mass migration due to the effects of climate change –...

Michael Simire - June 7, 2021

Health

Africa urgently needs 20m second doses of COVID-19 vaccines – WHO

World Health Organisation (WHO) says Africa needs at least 20 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the next six weeks to get second...

Michael Simire - May 28, 2021

Conservation

Covid-19 recovery financing should be an investment in nature

On May 18, 2021, President Emmanuel Macron of France hosted the Sustainable Financing for Africa Summit in Paris. The meeting, coming in the wake...

Michael Simire - May 27, 2021

Pollution

How polluters are slowing down Africa’s progress

The world has no business investing in new fossil fuel developments in our race to the 1.5°C pathway. The International Energy Agency’s (IEA) newly...

Michael Simire - May 25, 2021

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Climate activists to stage actions against Total across Africa

Climate activists are organising protests at Total's operations across the African continent. The protests, holding on Tuesday, May 25, 2021, are aimed at shining a...

Michael Simire - May 24, 2021

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Nnimmo Bassey: Okavango and the tragedy of Africa

The quest for profit in a predatory economic system has made it possible for humans to wilfully ignore extractivist crimes unfolding in broad daylight....

Michael Simire - May 12, 2021

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