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‘Our land and jobs now. Stop load shedding!’: Fact-checking four big claims in the Economic Freedom Fighters’ 2024 election manifesto
By: Africa Check 8th March 2024 South Africa’s second largest opposition party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), launched its election manifesto on 10 February 2024, titled... →
Progress, but too slow
By: Terence Creamer 8th March 2024 There is growing impatience over the slow pace at which the South African government is moving to harness the $11.6-billion in concessional loans... →
South Africa: women play a key role in early childhood learning and care – but they need help accessing university
7th March 2024 In South Africa, the early childhood development sector is dominated by women who build creches from the ground up. These women offer services to... →
Ethiopia’s draft transitional justice policy: 10 key observations
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 7th March 2024 From 21-24 February, Ethiopia’s Justice Ministry held validation workshops on a draft policy to deal with the country’s violent past through... →
Dry weather hits southern Africa’s farmers, putting key maize supplies at risk: how to blunt the impact
6th March 2024 South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe have recently published reports indicating a potential decline in grain harvest because of intense El... →
Cost-of-living crisis: experts share 3 survival tips
5th March 2024 The price increases for essential goods such as food, petrol and household utilities are a global concern, but the region most hurt by the surge in... →
Organised criminals make Douala their gateway to global markets
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 5th March 2024 In May 2023, a customs official in Douala, Cameroon stamped a shipment of timber for export from the Central African Republic (CAR) to China. It... →
Big companies, like Nestlé, are funding health research in South Africa - why this is wrong
4th March 2024 In 2021, the director of the African Research University Alliance Centre of Excellence in Food Security at the University of Pretoria was appointed... →
Ali Hassan Mwinyi: the Tanzanian former president who oversaw the transition to market economy
4th March 2024 Ali Hassan Mwinyi, Tanzania’s second president who has died aged 98, pushed through tough economic and political reforms that transformed the East... →
The installer must apply to the City to authorise the system for grid connection
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 4th March 2024 Somalia and Türkiye have forged a new defence and economic partnership. The agreement is one part of an intricate web of maritime pacts involving... →
