Over the past few years, the barriers to entry in ecommerce have crumbled, enabling nearly anyone to set up an online shopping presence within a matter of hours. You can easily set up a fully functional website with a product catalogue, secure billing and logistics for a relatively small investment in time and money. This…
U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell attends a press conference following the issuance of the Federal Open Market Committee’s statement on interest rate policy in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 18, 2025. Kevin Mohatt | Reuters At U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s post-meeting press conference, the topic of tariffs — specifically, their impact on prices…
China’s long-running car price war is overshadowing a deeper problem for the nation’s automotive industry: persistent overcapacity. Despite a slight uptick in recent years, more than half of production capacity lay idle in 2024. In an industry capable of making 55.5 million vehicles annually, overall capacity utilisation last year was just 49.5%, data compiled by…
From Market Stalls to Media House: Rwanda’s Journey to Job Creation A sunny June day in a Kigali market, a young girl named Joy sets out a small basket of oranges along the road. She had left school due to financial hardship, and now her days are a juggling act–helping her mother with chores, walking…
Almost 4.5 million maternal, stillborn and newborn deaths were recorded in 2023. What if there was a clear path to saving 83 percent of these people? To saving 3.7 million mothers, unborn children and babies annually? According to the World Health Organization (WHO), this sort of large-scale life-saving is possible, if midwifery care is universally…
Editor’s Note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Get the latest news in aviation, food and drink, where to stay and other travel developments. CNN — He’d spent years backpacking around the world, and Japanese traveler Daisuke Kajiyama was finally ready to return home to pursue his long-held dream of opening…
Wetility and Jaltech anticipate this deal will enable the deployment of solar energy to hundreds of thousands more homes and businesses. MultiChoice-backed solar-as-a-service provider Wetility has successfully secured a R500 million structured capital partnership with Jaltech, a funder of solar energy projects in South Africa. Wetility says the transaction marks a milestone in the company’s…
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two men were sentenced Wednesday to lifelong terms in prison in the shooting death of an 11-year-old boy outside an Albuquerque baseball stadium in 2023 that prompted the New Mexico governor to issue a controversial gun ban, the district attorney’s office in Albuquerque said. Investigators say a truck carrying a mother and…
Habib Mahakian Dell Technologies South Africa has a new MD following the recent resignation of Doug Woolley, who has taken a senior role at JSE-listed Altron Group. Habib Mahakian has been named MD and vice president of Dell South Africa with immediate effect, the company said on Wednesday. This expands his current role as vice…
The world’s most developed economies have also burnt the most oil and coal (fossil fuels) over the years, causing the most climate change damage. Preventing further climate change means a global fossil fuel phase-out must happen by 2050. Climate change mitigation scientists Sven Teske and Saori Miyake analysed the potential for renewable energy in each…
