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An eight-day-long listening to,  to contemplate whether or not to certify the category motion being introduced in opposition to Anglo American SA (Anglo) for alleged mismanagement inflicting widespread lead poisoning across the Kabwe mine, has concluded. In what has been described as a “test case for ESG”, the conclusion of …

Writer: Clyde Oakes, Head: Public Sector ARO at Absa Company and Funding banking The event of infrastructure on the African continent is a vital driver for sustainable financial progress. Africa’s ailing infrastructure deficit has hampered its development in comparison with different economies.  The flipside to this problem ought to enable …

The BBC reviews that “historic peace agreement” deal will probably be signed in Washington, D.C. in keeping with Israel’s International Minister Eli Cohen Sudan formally agreed to normalise relations with Israel in January 2021 in a quid professional quo for the US removing it from its list of “state sponsors …

Johannesburg — Latest visits to Africa by U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield and U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen got here as a brand new research discovered China’s abroad investments within the COVID-19 period are at a 13-year low. China has invested closely in Africa by its Belt and …

By Joyce Chimbi The brand new yr introduced unhealthy information for press freedom on the African continent with the brutal homicide of 1 journalist and the suspicious demise of one other. Committee to Defend Journalists (CPJ) Africa program head Angela Quintal mentioned that to start out the yr with the demise …

We’re in his home positioned in Lokogoma, a sprawling suburb in Abuja, sipping black espresso as he takes me on a visit down reminiscence lane. Sowore, who’s the writer of the web information outlet, Sahara Reporters, burst into Nigeria’s political scene whereas he was a pupil union chief on the …

A painful, parasitic illness that after contaminated 3.5 million folks per yr is tantalizingly near being eradicated. On Jan. 24, 2023, The Carter Center, a nonprofit based by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, introduced that “Guinea worm is poised to grow to be the second human illness in historical past …

UNDER THE THEME “MEANINGFUL YOUTH ENGAGEMENT FOR ADVANCING SUSTAINABLE HEALTH SECURITY IN AFRICA” 10-11 DECEMBER 2022 A facet occasion on the margins of the 2nd Worldwide Convention on Public Well being in Africa (CPHIA 2022) BACKGROUND Africa continues to expertise the very best incidence of public well being emergencies yearly. …

The thirty-fourth assembly of the Emergency Committee beneath the Worldwide Well being Laws (2005) (IHR) on the worldwide unfold of poliovirus was convened by the WHO Director-Basic on 25 January 2023 with committee members and advisers attending through video convention, supported by the WHO Secretariat. The Emergency Committee reviewed the …

From 24 to 25 January 2023, the WHO Science Division, in collaboration with the WHO Regional Workplace for Africa and the Africa Centres for Illness Management and Prevention (Africa CDC), organized the primary regional workshop to operationalize the framework within the WHO African area. A complete of 38 multidisciplinary and …

Seoul, Republic of Korea – Thursday, February 2, 2023 Good morning! President of Yonsei College, Seung Hwan Suh, Former Secretary-Normal Ban Ki-Moon, Excellencies and Distinguished Visitors, Thanks to my expensive pal and one in all Korea’s best sons, former Secretary Normal Ban Ki Moon, for the invitation to deal with …

Should you have been to open your medication cupboard proper now, there is a honest probability that you just’d discover at the least one bottle of nutritional vitamins alongside the painkillers, plasters and cough syrup. In spite of everything, individuals are undoubtedly shopping for nutritional vitamins: in 2020, the worldwide …