Tanzania: Rapid Population Growth Worries Authorities
Tanzania's population jumped by more than 37% in a decade to reach 61.7 million, President Samia Suluhu Hassan said Monday, as she unveiled the results of the national census. READ ...
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AfroSports: Ferdinand Omanyala Races To Compete After Visa Issues
The Kenyan, 26, who won the African 100m title last month, is due to race in the heats on Friday at the global event in Eugene, Oregon. Omanyala will fly ...
Kenya: Nairobi City Named Among The Greatest Places To Visit In 2022
It is a city that has often been referred to as the green city in the sun and rightfully so. From the onset, it has established itself as a city ...
Op-ed: The fragile state of Freedom of the press in Africa
By Olivier Noudjalbaye Dedingar, Expert-Consultant, Humanitarian and Freelance Journalist. The state of the freedom of the press in Africa has over the years been spoken in tones much sadder ...
Sub-Saharan Africa: Africa’s Pulse Report, Growth to fall to 3.6% in 2022
By Metohuey Michael Adoglo The latest edition of the World Bank's Africa's Pulse report announces a slowdown in growth in sub-Saharan Africa. Faced with new economic challenges, there are ...
MALAWI: Wild Polio Cases Detected After Five Years of No Case in Africa
By Metohuey Michael Adoglo The health authorities in Malawi have declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 after a case was detected in a young child in the capital ...
$5.5 billion Committed to MSME financing in Africa
The coalition for a sustainable and inclusive recovery of the private sector(link is external), an international group of 20 development finance institutions that came together in 2020, today announced commitments of ...
As Covid-19 strains health budgets, African Development Bank and partners develop tool to enhance public-private collaboration
The African Development Bank, the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa and their partners in the Harmonization for Health in Africa Initiative have published a study on public-private collaboration ...
Africa’s business leaders given mandate to stand up and do good
In the age of consumer and employee activism, those that get it right could meaningfully enhance their reputations and the long-term growth of their organisations. On the other hand, consumers ...
African Rainbow Minerals doubles its 2020 interim dividend payout
The group reported a 134 percent jump in headline earnings to a record R5.039 billion, or R25.87 a share, compared to R2.155bn, or R11.14 a share as iron ore prices ...
