A JRC paper published in Nature Energy reveals that changing the existing energy infrastructure that is unexploited or poorly used in sub-Saharan Africa could reduce the cost and lower the chances of risk for investors, and enable 15.4 million people get access to sustainably produced electricity. This attempt requires an investment of € 1 – 1.5 billion to generate an… Read more »
21 September 2016 – Speaking from the podium of the United Nations General Assembly, Hage Geingob, the President of Namibia, recalled last year’s commitment by UN Member States to a new agenda for Sustainable Development to “join the global drive towards ensuring a life of dignity for all.” “We are all in agreement that effective implementation of this agenda will… Read more »
21 September 2016 – Speaking from the podium of the United Nations General Assembly, Hage Geingob, the President of Namibia, recalled last year’s commitment by UN Member States to a new agenda for Sustainable Development to “join the global drive towards ensuring a life of dignity for all.” “We are all in agreement that effective implementation of this agenda will require coherence… Read more »
If the drama that was Hakainde Hichilema v Edgar Chagwa Lungu (2016/CC/0031) has any lessons for the continent, it is how not to adjudicate upon a presidential election petition. Three judges of the court effectively succeeded in making an unfortunate mockery of their bench and risking the otherwise good image Zambia’s electoral process has enjoyed for a few decades now…. Read more »
BY Everson Mushava For the past few months, Nera has been protesting against the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, but most of the demonstrations have been thwarted by the police. After a meeting of the Nera technical group on Monday, the opposition parties resolved to intensify their push through both protests and other strategies that would also include ratcheting up international pressure… Read more »
The Cameroonian Minister of Posts and Telecoms, Minette Libom Li Likeng, and the Managing Director of Eneo, Joël Nana Kontchou, signed on 20 September 2016 in Yaoundé, the capital of the country, an agreement on the retrocession to the State of Cameroon of a network of more than 700 Km of fibre optic built by the public electricity service concessionaire…. Read more »
Gambia: Disgraced EX-Gambian Interior Minister Avoids The Public View After Been Sacked! The exact whereabouts of the sacked Interior Minister Ousman Sonko, has become a major talking point in intelligence circles in The Gambia. A law enforcement source, who spoke to this medium said Sonko, was briefly missing from the public view shortly after his weekend unceremonious sacking—hence leading to… Read more »
One in four women living in a key platinum mining area in South Africa has been raped in her lifetime, a survey by medical charity MSF has said. About half of women in Rustenburg had been subject to sexual violence or intimate partner violence, it said. The charity said the findings of its survey were “shocking but not uncommon” in… Read more »
PRETORIA, South Africa — In recent years, staff members at the prestigious Pretoria High School for Girls in South Africa’s administrative capital had taken to telling black students to “fix” their hair, according to some current and former pupils. Exactly what “fix” meant depended on who was issuing the order, the young women said: Some were told to use chemical… Read more »
Some 6,000 people in Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo may be infected with yellow fever, six times the number of confirmed cases, but no new infections have been found since July 12, an “extremely positive” trend, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. The looming rainy season has raised fears of further spread of the worst outbreak in decades… Read more »
