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    Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile Veronika Haulenga

Governance

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EU and KAS launch 15 million NAD project focusing on empowering CSOS, women, youth, and marginalized communities

    The European Union (EU) and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) are delighted to announce the commencement of the project "Empowering CSOs, Women, Youth, and Marginalized Communities as Equal Partners in Democracy" (ECSO) project. This transformative initiative, co-funded by the EU and KAS, aligns with the joint commitment of the EU and Namibia to enhance the participation of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in governance and development issues. The ECSO project, spanning […]

todayJanuary 24, 2024 13

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Africa

Kenyan universities are very short of professors: why it matters and what to do about it

    Ishmael Munene, Northern Arizona University A Kenyan vice-chancellor recently went public about the scarcity of university professors. There are fewer than 1,000 professors for the country’s 68 universities and 562,925 students. That is an average of around 563 students per professor. South Africa has around 4,034 professors and 1,112,439 students – around 275 students per professor. Professors occupy the highest teaching rank in the university. They reach this […]

todayJanuary 23, 2024 18

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Opinion Pieces

South Africa’s ANC marks its 112th year with an eye on national elections, but its record is patchy and future uncertain

  By Sandy Africa, University of Pretoria The speech President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered at the 112th birthday celebration of South Africa’s governing party, the African National Congress (ANC), on 13 January can be seen as the party’s opening election gambit: a stadium packed to capacity, the display of a united leadership, and an invocation of three decades of success, delivered by a leader firmly in control of his party. The […]

todayJanuary 17, 2024 12

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Interview Transcripts

LPM Responds to Politicization Claims and Vision for Equitable Governance

Future Media News took time out to speak with Lifalaza Simataa from Namibia's Landless People's on the topic of "Politicization Claims and Vision for Equitable Governance". Here is the full article. "In a recent statement responding to claims made by the South African president and leading party officials regarding potential policy reversals if they were to lose power, the Landless People's Movement (LPM) emphasized a commitment to non-partisanship in governance. […]

todayJanuary 12, 2024 9

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Africa

COP28’s commitment to transforming farming and food systems is an insult to Africans

  By Florian Kroll, University of the Western Cape Globally, food systems are unsustainable: 80% of the production of food is powered by fossil fuels. The food system is responsible for over one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions. It is the primary driver of biodiversity loss. The COP28 climate change conference has issued a declaration on sustainable agriculture and resilient food systems. An expert on food systems, Florian Kroll, sets […]

todayDecember 13, 2023 17

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Africa

Zambia’s foreign debt tragedy – what needs to happen to resolve the crisis

By Danny Bradlow, University of Pretoria Three years after defaulting on its foreign debt, Zambia is still trying to reach agreement with all its creditors on how to manage this situation. This has left the southern African country in a state of development finance limbo. It is handicapped in raising the funds needed to generate jobs, build infrastructure, provide health, education and social services and deal with climate change. Its president, […]

todayDecember 1, 2023 7

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Africa

Breaking: African Leadership Magazine Unveils Nominees for the African Persons of the Year (POTY) 2023

Following the call for nominations which ended recently and attracted submissions from Africans across the continent and in Diaspora, the African Leadership Magazine (ALM) is pleased to unveil a shortlist of nominees for the 12th African Leadership Magazine Persons of the Year 2023. Subsequently, public voting is now open and the general public is therefore invited to visit the ALM website (www.africanleadershipmagazine.co.uk) to vote for their choice nominees on the […]

todayNovember 28, 2023 21

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Climate adaptation funds are not reaching frontline communities: what needs to be done about it

By Katherine Browne, Stockholm Environment Institute Communities around the world face increasingly severe and frequent impacts from climate change. They are on the “frontlines” of droughts, flooding, desertification and sea level rise. International climate finance is supposed to help. In the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world’s wealthiest countries pledged US$50 billion annually to support climate adaptation among those “particularly vulnerable” to climate change. Climate adaptation is the adjustments humans make to […]

todayNovember 27, 2023 6

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