Q(h)ubeka Trust winds up after paying out R420-million in compensation following court settlement with employers Vuyo Mpiti* was one of more than 4,000 former Anglo American mineworkers who took their former employers to court to seek compensation for the silicosis they contracted on the gold mines. The mines settled in 2016, and the Q(h)ubeka Trust […]
Tag: news
Nairobi, Kenya — Entrepreneurs are on a mission to make our cities cleaner and more liveable. As the co-founders of eWAKA, a platform dedicated to serving commuter and commercial electric micro-mobility fleets, Celeste Vogel and Jimmy Tune are committed to making our cities more sustainable and liveable. They believe that electric micromobility is the key […]
The long-suffering country of Sudan caught a glimpse of peace late last month. General Mohammed Dagalo (aka Nemeti), head of the paramilitary Rapid Security Force (RSF) whose conflict with General Abdel Fattah al Burhan’s army tore the country apart, issued a statement with a peace plan offering democratic elections and the merging of two armies. […]
Imagine this: You’re walking down the street, breathing in the fresh air. But what you don’t see is the invisible cloud of toxic pollutants that’s following you. This cloud is made up of the exhaust fumes from cars, trucks, buses, and other vehicles that run on fossil fuels. Using fossil fuels for energy takes a […]
Arusha — Vast swathes of ancient forest are cut for timber. Oil is endlessly extracted from wells cut deep in the ground. And as countless species are irrecoverably driven to extinction, factories continue to belch pollution, clouding our once-clear skies. For this destruction, the Global North has historically held the most responsibility – their insatiable […]
The National Treasury’s Cost Containment Letter sent to government departments instructing, among others, the freezing of posts was one of the big themes underlying talks about building South Africa’s healthcare worker capacity during the Public Health Association of South Africa’s (PHASA) conference held recently in Gqeberha. With Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana expected to deliver the […]
The House of Representatives ad-hoc committee investigating crude oil theft and loss of revenues from oil and gas companies has again insisted that agencies and other stakeholders in the industry evading the ongoing investigation appear before it unfailingly. This is as the total unremitted revenues to the Federation by some relevant government agencies and companies […]
More details about the Kigali Green City pilot project expected to be set up on some 600 hectares in the Kinyinya suburb of Gasabo district have emerged. The features of this futuristic city were showcased at the September 6-8 Africa Smart City Investment Summit, held in Kigali. During the summit, Kigali was announced as Africa’s […]
World-leading tuberculosis researcher Professor Valerie Mizrahi was 35 when her mother Etty started losing weight and coughing furiously. After healthcare professionals in Johannesburg failed to accurately diagnose her, it was a doctor in Plettenberg Bay who told Etty: “The good news is you don’t have lung cancer, the bad news is that you have tuberculosis […]
The horror caused by the perennial Oshodi-Apapa Expressway gridlock continued yesterday, with the traffic snarl stretching to the Second Rainbow bus stop. Commuters wailed as the Task Force set up by Governor Babjide Sanwo-Olu to clear the traffic and Ports Police appeared helpless. More than one week ago, Governor Sanwo-Olu directed the Lagos State Special Committee […]
John Nsengiyera, 27, recalls, with a tinge of nostalgia, how life used to be back home in Ngungu, a region in Masisi territory, in DR Congo’s North Kivu Province, where cattle grazed on rolling green hills. Although the Congolese Tutsi community from this region has been subjected to discrimination since 1964, according to his parents, […]
Brazzaville/Kampala – Uganda today declared the end of the Ebola disease outbreak caused by Sudan ebolavirus, less than four months after the first case was confirmed in the country’s central Mubende district on 20 September 2022. “Uganda put a swift end to the Ebola outbreak by ramping up key control measures such as surveillance, contact […]
Again, despite previous experience and warnings from the relevant authorities, several states and local governments across the country have been caught unprepared for the yearly devastating rains and floods. Investigation by the LEADERSHIP showed that despite repeated warnings by NiMET, most of the states of the federation this year suffered severe setbacks as the rains […]
Traffic police in Kampala have arrested a bus driver filmed while using his phone to send several text messages while driving . Traffic police in Kampala have arrested a bus driver filmed while using his phone to send several text messages while driving. In a video that went viral on social media, after being filmed […]
The U.S. Pentagon began an official six-day visit to Djibouti, Kenya, and Angola. United States Secretary of Defence, Lloyd Austin III, aims to “discuss ongoing military cooperation, regional security challenges, and opportunities for further collaboration,” according to the U.S. Department of Defense. As the 78th UN General Assembly high-level week scheduled for 19 to 23 […]
-Say he asked victim to lie he was cousin to his daughter A Nigerian senator and his wife plotted to bring a poor street trader to the UK to harvest his kidney for their daughter in exchange for up to £7,000 and the promise of a better life, a court has heard. Ike and Beatrice […]
Last Thursday, I attended the Valedictory session held in honour of Honourable Justice Amina Adamu Augie, CFR, Justice of the Supreme Court, who stepped down from the Apex Court having attained the mandatory retirement age of 70 on September 3, 2023, after 45 years of meritorious service on the Bench, in accordance to Section 291(1) […]
Categories
Africa: Cities as International Actors
The African Centre for the Study of the United States is hosting the Africa-U.S. Cities Conference from February 15, 2023 to February 17, 2023 in Johannesburg, with the Sister Cities International, a U.S.-based non-profit organization as a key partner, among others. This piece lays out the factors that are making Africa-U.S. city relations an important […]