Poverty

Antibiotic resistance causes more deaths than malaria and HIV/Aids combined. What Africa is doing to fight this silent epidemic

By Tom Nyirenda, Stellenbosch University Each year antimicrobial resistance – the ability of microbes to survive agents designed to kill them – claims more lives than malaria and HIV/Aids combined. Africa bears the brunt of this development, which thrives on inequality and poverty. Nadine Dreyer asked Tom Nyirenda, a research scientist with over 27 years’ experience in infectious diseases, what health organisations on the continent are doing to fight this […]

21 November, 2023 10

Africa

There are too few toilets in Africa and it’s a public health hazard – how to fix the problem

Omololu Fagunwa, Queen's University Belfast and Helen Onyeaka, University of Birmingham Imagine you are miles from the nearest restroom, and nature’s call is urgent – a situation that might raise a mild panic during a hike or at a music festival. Now, picture that same scenario, not as a one-off inconvenience, but as a daily reality. This is the case for about half a billion people globally. In African countries, […]

17 November, 2023 33

Business / Economics

Rinaani Musutua, an advocate for economic and social justice with the Basic Income Grant Coalition, provides her perspective on Namibia’s unemployment rate.

https://youtu.be/kpiINO-03g0 Following the recent mid-term budget review, which saw a substantial increase in budgets for seventeen government offices, ministries, and agencies, totaling 2.5 billion Namibian dollars, Rinaani Musutua, an advocate for economic and social justice with the Basic Income Grant Coalition, provides her perspective on Namibia's unemployment rate.

6 November, 2023 35