Month: February 2025

 Legal, tax and business advisory conglomerate CLG (www.CLGGlobal.com/) – formerly Centurion Law Group – is supporting oil and gas developments in Africa through its innovative and adaptable approach to client services. In Equatorial Guinea, CLG represents the largest law firm, focused on advising foreign companies operating in the country. The firm has a number one ranking on research firm Chambers and Partners’ Global Guide 2025: Equatorial Guinea, underscoring its role […]

 By Amadou Hott, Senegal’s official nominee for the position of President of the African Development Bank, Former Minister of Economy and planning, Senegal (www.AmadouHott.com). Ask any traveler about their experience moving across parts of Africa, and you will likely hear about familiar challenges: high costs, indirect routes, and unpredictable schedules that can make even the simplest journeys more complicated and costly. These travel hurdles highlight the immense opportunity to further strengthen […]

 A top livestock health problem in Africa that touches the lives of millions of people relying on small ruminants for income and food security is the battle against Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR), affecting small ruminants. Sheep and goats are important in Central Africa, where a diversity of animal species-from cattle to camels, aquatic animals to wildlife -and small ruminants exists. Most of the above are found in the arid […]

 The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold its fifty-eighth regular session from 24 February to 4 April 2025 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, starting with its high-level segment from 24 to 26 February, when dignitaries representing more than 100 Member States will address the Council. The session will open at 9 a.m. on Monday, 24 February under the Presidency of Ambassador Jürg Lauber of Switzerland. Delivering statements […]

 Egyptian authorities must immediately release dozens of people arbitrarily detained and prosecuted on terrorism-related charges, solely for posting online content supporting calls for an end to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s rule, Amnesty International said today. The crackdown took place ahead of the anniversary of the 25 January 2011 revolution, a time when authorities routinely escalate repression to prevent any peaceful protests. Since late December 2024, security forces have arbitrarily arrested […]

 Having been briefed on the important matter of moving social grant recipients from the South African Social Security Agency’s (SASSA’s) Gold Cards to Postbank’s Black Cards, the Portfolio Committee on Social Development and the Portfolio Committee on Communication and Digital Technologies welcomed an undertaking that all beneficiaries will continue to receive their grants beyond the new deadline of 20 March 2025. However, those without Black Cards after the new deadline […]

 The Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services has urged the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) to implement immediate strategies in place to curb the alarming rising tide of contraband in correctional facilities. The committee heard that to date more than 41 000 cellphones and well over 200 000 proceeds of illicit drugs have been confiscated, while 64 correctional services officials have been implicated in these illegal acts, according to the briefing […]