Africa

2 mins ago | March 27, 2023

African climate activists fight online surveillance

fin24.com When Tanzanian climate activists posed as delivery couriers to get into energy firm TotalEnergies’ Dar ...

3 days ago | March 24, 2023

African infrastructure gets boost from US$12bn climate fund

The Green Climate Fund, a US$12 billion international climate finance facility, has agreed to make its biggest ever ...

5 days ago | March 22, 2023

Sustainability in business doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg

partners.24.com Ahead of the Curve With Nedbank Commercial Banking As global policy shifts and employees continue to ...

6 days ago | March 21, 2023

Urgent course correction needed on climate change, economic ...

Louis Reynolds Kedibone Mmupele (27), her two children Onkarabile (2) and Nkune (6), and her younger siblings Mapule (7) ...

Sustainability in business doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg

Ahead of the Curve With Nedbank Commercial Banking partners.24.com  As global policy shifts and employees continue to ...

7 days ago | March 20, 2023

Africa ramps up efforts to retrieve wealth hidden across borders

Business Writer TAX administrations across the African continent are ramping up efforts to build their capacity to ...

1 month ago | February 24, 2023

Investors eye Africa as an emerging market

Joseph Rutakangwa Investors are increasingly looking for good opportunities to back tech innovators, consumer goods ...

Southern Africa kickstarts lithium industry?

In 1987 two researchers at the University of Leeds published a paper showing that lithium-bearing pegmatite — a hard ...

2 months ago | February 10, 2023

Africa to keep more profits from lithium boom

CAPE TOWN. — Lithium-rich African countries, including Zimbabwe and Namibia, are trying to develop processing and ...

3 months ago | December 30, 2022

‘Climate change disrupting livelihoods in Africa’

Enacy Mapakame Climate change is causing massive suffering the world over, with 88 percent of Africans already affected ...

3 months ago | December 28, 2022

Afreximbank, US EXIM, sign trade MoU

Business Writer PAN African multilateral financial institution, Afreximbank, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding ...

3 months ago | December 23, 2022

Can Africa obtain the funds it needs?

Despite a breakthrough agreement at Cop27 to establish a climate change loss and damage fund for developing nations, ...

4 months ago | December 9, 2022

ESG in Africa is ‘colonialism 2.0’

African countries should be drilling for oil and investing massively in oil and natural gas, not signing up for the ...

4 months ago | December 1, 2022

Comesa simplifies administrative processes

Oliver Kazunga THE Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa), says it has made major strides in simplifying ...

4 months ago | November 30, 2022

AfDB approves €125 million loan for SADC’s biggest IPP

Business Writer THE board of directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved a loan package not ...

5 months ago | November 11, 2022

Africa’s heritage sites in peril as planet heats up

From the snow-capped peak of Mount Kilimanjaro to the ruins of the ancient Tunisian city of Carthage and Senegal’s slave ...

5 months ago | October 28, 2022

A threat to global health

Climate change is severely impacting people’s health around the world, a report by a leading medical publication has ...

Why Africa is central to the climate change conundrum

In the matter of climate change, as in so much else, Africa is an afterthought. To the extent that anyone considers it ...

5 months ago | October 21, 2022

‘Africa loses 5-15pc in GDP due to climate change’

As the 2022 UN Climate Change Conference (Cop27) in Sharm El-Sheikh approaches, the environmental situation across the ...

Billionaire Mo Ibrahim attacks ‘hypocrisy’ over Africa’s gas

One of Africa’s richest entrepreneurs, the telecoms billionaire Mo Ibrahim , has criticised developed countries for ...