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(By Lydia-Claire Halliday) Africa urgently needs a more extensive and robust aviation network, given the region’s relative lack of alternative long-distance transportation infrastructure The African aviation market has been underserved for a long time. Before 2020, only 9% of Africa’s air traffic was between African countries, the rest being intercontinental. ...

(By Pascal Minvielle) The PCS builds on bespoke interfacing with the electronic payment platform Paylican and is equipped with a CMS connectivity toolkit that connects all system The Port Community System (PCS) is an electronic collaborative hub which allows public and private stakeholders involved in cargo release to exchange instructions, ...

 (By NJ Ayuk) To meet the climate targets set out in the Paris agreement Africa must radically change its energy landscape, and that means increasing its renewables capacity Vilifying fossil fuels seems to come easily to many people these days. That includes UN Secretary General António Guterres, who recently associated ...

A strategic focus on a well-defined energy strategy can fundamentally shift an organisation’s resilience in times of energy uncertainty and economic volatility. According to McKinsey, taking a proactive approach to energy costs can reduce their impact on the budget by as much as 10%, and can minimise the impact of ...

(By Pelin Incesu) There are currently 280,000 new cases across the region every year and this is  expected to increase by 140 per cent by 2040 Breast cancer is a life-altering, and often life-limiting disease that has ramifications for all of society . It is the leading cause of death ...

(By Prof. Mark Shrime) Over two-thirds of the world’s population doesn’t have access to safe, affordable, and timely surgical care You know that phrase, “Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, you feed him for life”? Yeah, I hate that phrase; ...

By Wendy Poulton  Leadership is a topic that receives a great deal of attention and training, yet it remains a difficult and complex process to successfully lead in today’s world.  When leadership is viewed in the ESG context it becomes even more complicated. This is partly because ESG in of itself ...

By Walter Duru, Ph.D Just like many other members of the Nigerian delegation, I felt very proud to be a Nigerian, when, at the 2022 ID4Africa Conference in Marrakech, Morocco, my dearly beloved country was celebrated for leading the Identity revolution in Africa. The message was very clear; the ovation ...

By Alex Simalabwi  This week, the Zambian Government launches its game-changing US$6 billion Zambia Water Investment Programme during the African Union mid-year Summit in Lusaka. The Programme is part of the Continental Africa Water Investment Programme (AIP) that was adopted by African Union Heads of State and Government as part ...

South Africans are sitting with bated breath, waiting for the exact shape and size of the latest shock petrol price increase. Geopolitical factors have been compounded by the fact that the government’s temporary tax break on fuel comes to an end at the same time. Drivers will expect to pay ...