Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — Calls for more government regulation and intervention are common during crises. But once the crises subside, pressures to reform quickly evaporate and the government is told to withdraw. New financial fads and opportunities are then touted, instead of long needed reforms. Global financial crisis The 2007-2009 global financial crisis (GFC) began […]
Tag: Sustainable Development
Green Riders employs young people in Dunoon on e-bikes Finding no job opportunities in his home town of Mthatha in the Eastern Cape, 22-year-old Yandisa Mbhadeko came to Cape Town to look for work, with the hope of saving enough money to fund his journalism studies. While he was staying in a one-room shack with […]
Bukoba — THE African Union (AU) has expressed worries on the alarming decline in immunisation rates and the resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases. The AU on Saturday held a Forum on Immunisation and Polio Eradication in Africa, which is being hosted by President Macky Sall, President of the Republic of Senegal and Chairperson of the African […]
Commentators increasingly warn that the world is tightly bound in a “polycrisis,” a tangled knot of crises spanning global systems. But if we have any hope of escaping it, we must think more carefully about what polycrisis really means. It’s a bad sign when there’s a struggle to even name the world’s ongoing crises and […]
Rwanda is hosting the 2nd International Conference on Public Health in Africa (CPHIA), where experts and stakeholders will discuss improving health care on the continent. The outcomes from the event are key to building Africa’s public health resilience, pandemic preparedness, and national and regional capacity to address existing gaps. The New Times caught up with […]
Rwanda is advocating a ‘global multilateral fund’ that will finance efforts by countries in ending plastic pollution by 2040. The proposed fund is a global Treaty on plastic pollution to end plastic pollution that is being drafted. The idea to develop a global treaty to end plastic pollution was initiated by Rwanda and later supported […]
Health authorities in the Seychelles have expressed disappointment at the low turn-out of at its latest blood donation drive held on Friday. The Blood Transfusion Centre (BTC) in the Ministry of Health organised a blood donation on Friday at the Seychelles Hospital from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The head of the BTC, Elizabeth Banda, […]
Tunis/Tunisia — It is necessary to overcome all obstacles that prevent women from accessing prestigious positions in many sectors, said Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts (UTICA) Vice-President Hichem Loumi at a ceremony of awarding certificates to participants in the 2nd session of the Women’s Entrepreneurship Development (WED) Programme, calling for the consecration of […]
Large numbers of businesses in eThekwini on South Africa’s eastern seaboard – which includes the port city of Durban – rely heavily on tourism. It’s a popular holiday destination, only six hours by road from Johannesburg. Millions of people living inland head to the warm coastline over the country’s extended December/January school holiday break. But […]
A planned pilot project for prawn farming has started on Seychelles’ Coetivy Island with the arrival of a first batch of the whiteleg shrimp post-larvae, Islands Development Company (IDC) said on Wednesday. According to IDC, the first batch of 150,000 whiteleg shrimp post-larvae, imported by air freight from Singapore, landed in Seychelles on Wednesday and […]
IN SHORT: A photo of Kenya’s top health officials supposedly in a surgical theatre drew criticism for the failure to observe patient safety rules. But the photo was actually snapped in a medical college’s surgery simulation lab. A photo is circulating on Facebook with the claim that it shows Kenya’s cabinet secretary (CS) for health […]
Dear Adolescent girl, I understand you. I grew up in a house full of people, a tar road littered with potholes, and often no electricity or water for days on end. I am a township girl. Growing up, I remember feeling that there were no role models I could look up to – no guidance […]
Seychelles is in the final stages of negotiation of two project agreements for the installation of a 5-megawatt photovoltaic panel in the Providence Lagoons, which will be the country’s first independent power producer (IPP) project, said a top official. The principal secretary for climate change and energy, Tony Imaduwa, told SNA that there are two […]
OCP Foundation is supporting a sustainable development project in Senegal in order to reduce the pressure on the Niokolo Koba National Park and its resources. The project aims to support the National Parks Direction (DPN) in three complementary areas: monitoring the quality of the park’s water, empowering neighboring populations and raising awareness among local communities […]
Cape Town — It’s fair to say that COP27 didn’t live up to its billing. A lot of issues were swept under the carpet during my two weeks in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. However, the voices of activists and environmentalists attending the annual Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change are getting louder and […]
Postbank abruptly suspended grant withdrawals at ATMs after incidents of fraud Social grant beneficiaries using the Postbank/SASSA gold card have not been able to withdraw their December grant payments from ATMs. Postbank and SASSA say this follows attacks on the network by criminals. Beneficiaries have been advised to withdraw grants from selected retail outlets instead. […]
Most tuberculosis (TB) testing today relies on sputum samples coughed up from the lungs. This makes intuitive sense since pulmonary (or lung) TB is the most common form of TB and sputum provides testable samples straight from the scene of infection. A major snag, however, is that children and some people living with HIV find […]
Cape Town — “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhumane’ – Dr Martin Luther King Jnr. The issue of racism in healthcare is nothing new, but the Covid-19 pandemic has once again brought it to the fore. African countries had to look on as the […]