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Africa: Barbados Pushes Mandatory Methane Financing Framework As African Parliaments Meet in Nairobi

eriinfo.com5 months ago07 mins

Nairobi — Barbados Ambassador for Climate Change and Climate Vulnerable Forum representative Elizabeth Thompson has proposed exploring mandatory financing and legally binding mechanisms to compel countries to accelerate methane emissions reduction, warning that voluntary climate commitments are failing to deliver the urgency required to avert catastrophic global warming. Speaking virtually during the opening day of…

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Africa: Museveni Urges African Political Parties to Prioritise Wealth and Job Creation

eriinfo.com5 months ago08 mins

President Museveni has called on African political parties to prioritise wealth creation, science, technology, and job creation if the continent is to overcome poverty and safeguard its independence. The President made the remarks during a fraternal dinner organised by the National Resistance Movement Secretariat at Kampala Serena Hotel following his inauguration earlier in the day….

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Africa: Macron Announces Paris Funding Conference to Support African Peace Efforts

eriinfo.com5 months ago05 mins

A conference on financing the African Union’s peace efforts will be held in Paris by the end of this year, French President Emmanuel Macron said while on a visit to Ethiopia. Macron has been in Africa on a five-day visit this week, including for a two-day economic summit in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. On Wednesday,…

MTN’s African engines fire – but South Africa still stalled

eriinfo.com5 months ago03 mins

MTN Group said on Tuesday that its core earnings jumped 27.9% in the first quarter, outpacing revenue growth as tighter cost control and strong performances in Nigeria and Ghana boosted profit. Africa’s biggest telecommunications operator, which has more than 310 million customers in 16 markets across the continent, said its earnings before interest, tax, depreciation…

Pressure builds on Vodacom’s South African mobile business

eriinfo.com5 months ago08 mins

Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub A reading of Vodacom Group’s 2026 financial results shows its home market is barely growing in customer terms, that what top-line growth there is leans heavily on price adjustments in February rather than volume growth, and profitability would have looked materially worse without a one-off accounting gain from the Maziv…

Africa: With Smart Investments, African Oil Could Fill Half the Supply That Usually Goes Through the Strait of Hormuz

eriinfo.com5 months ago013 mins

Washington, DC — As we’re all being painfully reminded, cutting off for any length of time the fifth of the world’s oil supply that passes through the Strait of Hormuz has an extraordinarily negative impact on commerce and lives here and everywhere. But what if we could get even half of that oil another way?…

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Africa: Joint Burayu Declaration On Five Years of Engagement Between the Peace and Security Council of the African Union and the African Peer Review Mechanism (2021-2026)

eriinfo.com5 months ago011 mins

We, the Members of the Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU) and African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), meeting and marking the fifth (5th) year of our Joint Retreat, in Burayu, Ethiopia, from 29 to 30 April 2026. Recalling the Protocol Relating to the Establishment of the PSC of the AU, particularly…

South African businesses are rethinking who controls their enterprise technology

eriinfo.com5 months ago05 mins

South African organisations are increasingly questioning whether major enterprise technology decisions should continue to be driven by vendor timelines rather than business priorities, as pressure grows to reduce costs, manage risk, and show clearer returns on technology investment. Across industries, businesses running platforms such as SAP, Oracle, and VMware are reassessing traditional support and upgrade…

South African private sector growth hits 44-month high

eriinfo.com5 months ago03 mins

South Africa’s private sector expanded at its fastest pace in nearly four years in April, as sales and output rose amid supply concerns linked to the Iran war, a business survey showed on Wednesday. The S&P Global South Africa Purchasing Managers’ Index rose to 51.6 in April from 50.8 in March. The 50-mark separates growth…

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African MPs Push Back Against EU ‘Interference’ in Internal Affairs

eriinfo.com5 months ago06 mins

Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa has led African legislators in condemning what they described as growing interference by the European Parliament in the internal affairs of African countries, urging members of the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) to defend the continent’s sovereignty. Speaking during a meeting of the Eastern Africa Regional Parliamentary Group…