Africa

1 hour ago | September 22, 2023

Novo contracts Aspen to produce insulin for Africa

Novo Nordisk has contracted Aspen Pharmacare to produce human insulin on its behalf in South Africa for export to ...

SA bonds losing appeal on risk of budget deficit

South African investors have turned less positive on the nation’s debt on worries over the potential for a severe budget ...

Russia pushing to join African anti-dirty money body as observer

Russia is lobbying nations in eastern and southern Africa in an attempt to join a regional anti-money laundering group ...

Impact of online scams affects Africans more than financial loss

Online attacks are increasing on the African continent and mostly affect people when they are distracted or ...

1 week ago | September 15, 2023

AfDB, GFANZ forge climate action alliance

Business Writer In a significant move towards advancing climate action in Africa, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net ...

Afreximbank in more than half a billion profit

Business Writer African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has reported a 76 percent growth in net interest income and an ...

Climate crisis: Africa is talking, but is the West listening?

More than a dozen African leaders stood outside Kenyatta International Convention Centre in Nairobi last Wednesday to ...

Global banks fall behind on emissions reporting

The world’s biggest banks aren’t telling stakeholders what they need to know to judge how big the industry’s carbon ...

Can SA bounce back from current economic challenges?

South Africa faces a plethora of challenges and will need to bounce back soon to prevent it from spiralling out of ...

A new financing pact can help climate-vulnerable countries

Amid an escalating climate emergency and a global debt crisis, calls for a new “fit for climate” global financial ...

Ramaphosa to cut govt’s size to stabilise economy

South Africa’s R4,7 trillion “unsustainable public debt levels”, including low growth rates, forced President Cyril ...

We just blew past 1,5 degrees. Game over on climate?

July 2023 was the hottest month ever recorded. And now we know something even more alarming. This week, the European ...

EU, US back Zambia-DR Congo-Angola railway study

Studies are to be undertaken for the construction of a railway linking the Copper Belt region of Zambia with the Katanga ...

S. Africa weighs new fiscal anchor to help contain debt surge

South Africa’s National Treasury proposed introducing a new fiscal anchor as part of measures to contain rising debt and ...

1 week ago | September 13, 2023

How dung paper is helping elephant conservation in Kenya

Gitonga Njeru, bird story agency Mwaluganje Elephant Sanctuary chairperson Salim Mwanyongwe is a happy man. The reserve ...

1 week ago | September 12, 2023

With a little knowledge and confidence, you too can be a good investor

Laura du Preez News24.com At a recent women’s day event hosted by Sterling Private Wealth and Allan Gray, Tamryn Lamb, ...

2 weeks ago | September 8, 2023

Rags not riches: Ghana drowns in Western castoffs

Last year’s must-have dress, yesterday’s flares and countless other Western castoffs are strangling the Global South, ...

WTO chief criticises wealthy nations for protectionism

The head of the World Trade Organisation sharply criticised western governments for embracing protectionist policies and ...

SA: Fuelling the inflation fight

Over the past few weeks one of the country’s most painful experiments finally started to bear fruit. The announcement by ...

Namibia hydrogen plans may boost GDP by third

Namibia’s hydrogen industry has the potential to provide a substantial boost to the economy over the next seven years, ...