Blog horizontal

Africa Oil Week – Mantashe Slams ‘Foreign-Funded’ Activists

[ad_1] Protests held against fossil-fuel industry in Cape Town and Johannesburg Hundreds of environmental activists from various organisations took to the streets of Sandton calling for a boycott of the upcoming Africa Energy Week. In Cape Town, Extinction Rebellion and The Green Connection protested outside the Africa Oil Week conference. Africa Energy Week (AEW) will be hosted in Cape Town from the 4 to 8 November, and boasts that it is "Africa's biggest gathering of energy policymakers, companies and investors. […]

October 9, 2024

News

Africa: Statement Against Travel Restrictions Inresponse to Mpox and Marburg Virus Outbreaks

[ad_1] 8 October 2024 — In light of the ongoing Mpox and Marburg virus outbreaks, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) urges all countries to refrain from implementing travel bans or movement restrictions targeting African nations. Such measures are inconsistent with international health guidelines and risk undermining public health responses, deepening economic challenges, and reigniting the inequities and mistrust that surfaced during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly between the Global North and the Global South. Under the […]

October 9, 2024

Africa

Africa: Britain Has Neglected Africa and the Commonwealth for Over a Decade – 4 Ways It Can Reset Relations

[ad_1] The United Kingdom is resetting its relations with Africa and other countries in the global south after more than a decade of neglect. At the United Nations in September, British prime minister Keir Starmer promised his government was returning the UK to responsible global leadership. This should include reconnecting with the countries of the global south which feel they have been neglected and among whom Britain's voice is now at a discount. The new Labour government's recently launched reviews […]

October 9, 2024

Africa

Africa’s Great Green Wall Will Only Combat Desertification and Poverty By Harnessing Local Solutions

[ad_1] In the rural village of Téssékéré, the increasing number and intensity of droughts linked to climate change is making the lives and livelihoods of the local Fulani communities increasingly vulnerable. Here, in the northern Sahel desert region of Senegal (known as the Ferlo), the pastoral population walks over dry, dusty ground with their livestock in search of grazing areas and working borehole water pumps. In favourable years, these farmers can stay in the fields around their local borehole, but […]

October 9, 2024

Japan

Election officials backing Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ stir unease in U.S.

[ad_1] ANN ARBOR, Michigan – In Michigan’s Macomb County, the Republican head of the board that will certify November’s election results called on former U.S. President Donald Trump to fight to stay in power after his election loss in 2020.In North Carolina’s Henderson County, a Republican election board member emailed legislators in August to claim, without evidence, that Democrats were flooding the state with illegal votes.And in Pennsylvania, considered a […]

October 9, 2024

Japan

Southeast Asian summit to seek progress on Myanmar civil war

[ad_1] Vientiane, Laos – Southeast Asian leaders will hold talks with a Myanmar junta representative at a summit on Wednesday as they try to kick-start faltering diplomatic efforts to broker an end to the country's bloody civil war.Rising tensions in the disputed South China Sea will also be on the agenda at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) gathering, after months of violent clashes between Chinese vessels and Philippine […]

October 9, 2024

Japan

Florida braces for Hurricane Milton with cancellations and closures

[ad_1] Airlines, energy firms and a Universal Studios theme park were among the companies beginning to halt their Florida operations as they braced for disruptions with Hurricane Milton set to make landfall on Wednesday.The hurricane has rapidly intensified into one of the area's most powerful on record, threatening a stretch of Florida's densely populated west coast that is still reeling from the devastating Hurricane Helene less than two weeks ago.As […]

October 9, 2024

Japan

U.S. and Japan defense chiefs agree to beef up Nansei Islands presence

[ad_1] New Defense Minister Gen Nakatani has held his first talks with his U.S. counterpart, with the two agreeing to continue expanding their bilateral presence in Japan's far-flung Nansei Islands near Taiwan.Nakatani and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke over the phone late Tuesday, the Defense Ministry said in a statement, with efforts to modernize the alliance’s command-and-control framework another focus of the talks.The ministers said they could continue “to work […]

October 9, 2024

Japan

Ex-Kadokawa chair pleads not guilty to bribing Tokyo Games executive

[ad_1] Tsuguhiko Kadokawa, former chairman of Japanese publisher Kadokawa, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday over allegations he bribed a former executive of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee."I don't recall anything, and I'm innocent," Kadokawa, 81, said in the first hearing of his trial at the Tokyo District Court. [ad_2] Source link

October 9, 2024

Africa

How ex-President Khama fell out with his protégé in Africa’s diamond state

[ad_1] AFPIan Khama (R) and his protégé Mokgweetsi Masisi (L) in happier times Ian Khama’s well-mannered voice barely disguises the anger that he feels.In several interviews that Botswana’s former president has given since 2019, when he began to express dissatisfaction with his hand-picked successor, Mokgweetsi Masisi, he has talked about him in damning terms.Masisi was “drunk on power”, Khama told the BBC’s Focus on Africa programme five years ago.Since then […]

October 9, 2024

Africa Oil Week – Mantashe Slams ‘Foreign-Funded’ Activists

Africa: Statement Against Travel Restrictions Inresponse to Mpox and Marburg Virus Outbreaks

Africa: Britain Has Neglected Africa and the Commonwealth for Over a Decade – 4 Ways It Can Reset Relations

Africa’s Great Green Wall Will Only Combat Desertification and Poverty By Harnessing Local Solutions

Election officials backing Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ stir unease in U.S.

Southeast Asian summit to seek progress on Myanmar civil war

Florida braces for Hurricane Milton with cancellations and closures

U.S. and Japan defense chiefs agree to beef up Nansei Islands presence

Ex-Kadokawa chair pleads not guilty to bribing Tokyo Games executive

How ex-President Khama fell out with his protégé in Africa’s diamond state

DON'T MISS ANYTHING!

Subscribe to our newsletter