Innovative Financing and Policy Support: Accelerating Renewable Energy Development in Africa (By Ana Hajduka)

By Ana Hajduka, founder and CEO of Africa GreenCo (www.AfricaGreenCo.com). As Africa’s energy sector deregulates, exciting opportunities open up for financial innovation to benefit consumers. Private-sector buyers and traders can mitigate default risk and provide certified green energy at lower cost, writes Ana Hajduka, founder and CEO of Africa GreenCo. Africa's renewable energy potential is undeniable, but it remains largely untapped. The problem is that the financing landscape for renewable […]

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APO International

Platform Petroleum to Make Case for Investment, Showcase Nigerian Output Ambitions as Silver Sponsors at African Energy Week (AEW) 2024

With ambitious plans to increase Nigeria’s oil output, indigenous energy company Platform Petroleum Chairman Dumo Lulu-Briggs recently announced that he is looking to invest as much as $1 billion in the country’s oil and gas industry. The company is also upgrading its flow station capacity at the Egbaoma field – situated on OML 38 in the Niger Delta Basin – from 3,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd) to 10,000 […]

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APO International

Scaling up response to curb growing mpox outbreak in African region

As the mpox outbreak that has affected the Democratic Republic of the Congo and spread to neighbouring countries continues to grow, World Health Organization (WHO) is intensifying support to countries to scale up measures to curb the virus and save lives. On the advice of independent experts of the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee, WHO Director-General has determined that the upsurge of mpox constitutes a public health emergency of international […]

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APO International

President Museveni And King Mswati III Call For A Unified African Market And Political Federation

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and the First Lady and Minister of Education and Sports, Maama Janet Museveni have today welcomed the King of Eswatini, His Majesty, Mswati III at Entebbe International Airport. His Majesty, Mswati III who is in Uganda for a three-day State Visit at the invitation of President Museveni was accompanied by his wife, Queen Inkhosikati Make Lamashwama and other high-level delegates. At Entebbe International Airport, President Museveni […]

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APO International

Ecobank Group Announces the Top Finalists for the 2024 Ecobank Fintech Challenge at its first ever Semi-Finals event in Lagos, Nigeria

Ecobank (www.Ecobank.com), the pan-African Bank, has announced the top finalists for the first-ever and inaugural 2024 Ecobank Fintech Challenge Hybrid Semi-Final event held at the Ecobank Pan African Centre in Lagos, Nigeria. The finalists were selected from a cohort of 40 highly competitive Fintechs that made it to the semi-final stage of the competition. This year's challenge attracted over 1,550 applications from 70 countries in Africa and other global regions. […]

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Opinion Pieces

Raising the retirement age won’t defuse China’s demographic time bomb – but mass immigration might

Not boxing clever? Is there a better solution to China’s aging population? Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images) By Dudley L. Poston Jr., Texas A&M University Chinese workers may soon have to work just a little bit longer. In late July 2024, China’s ruling Communist Party adopted a resolution that would see the country’s statutory retirement age gradually rise over the next five years. The final retirement age has not […]

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Africa

Supply chains should make the world better, not worse – it’s time for a rethink

By Ralph Hamann, University of Cape Town; Chien-Ming Chen, Nanyang Technological University; Jury Gualandris, Western University; Kevin Dooley, Arizona State University; Martina Linnenluecke, University of Technology Sydney; Michael L. Barnett, Rutgers University; Miriam Wilhelm, Vienna University of Economics and Business, and Sergio Lazzarini, Institute of Education and Research (INSPER) Every product or service that you consume is part of a supply chain. Supply chains include an array of […]

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Opinion Pieces

Catholics are debating whether to remove paintings by a priest accused of abusing women − but let’s not confuse the artist and the art, writes an art historian

Logo of the Catholic Church’s Holy Year of Mercy, 2015-2016, which was created by Marko Rupnik, atop a monument in Poland. Aw5 via Wikimedia CommonsMarko Rupnik/ Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization, CC BY-NC-SA By Virginia Raguin, College of the Holy Cross Marko Rupnik, a Catholic priest, was expelled from the Jesuit order because he’d allegedly abused women. He was later accepted into the diocese in his native Slovenia. […]

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Local

Nedbank for Good series hit million-dollar mark …as the coastal leg set to kick off this weekend

The Nedbank for Good Series recently celebrated a major milestone of raising N$1 million since its inception in 2020. This was achieved during round four of this year’s competition at the Mariental Golf Club on 13 July. The funds are raised by auctioning various products donated to the series. The coordinator of the Nedbank for Good series, Dan Zwiebel, noted that when it kicked off in 2020, the series […]

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