Africa: UN Presses Ahead With Mission for a Better World Despite Global Headwinds

Africa: Ahead of High-Stakes General Assembly Week, Guterres Urges World Leaders to ‘Get Serious – and Deliver’

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged world leaders to “get serious – and deliver” as they begin arriving in New York for the high-level week of the 80th General Assembly. Speaking at a press conference at the UN Headquarters on Tuesday in New York, he warned that global divisions, conflicts and crises have left the…

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MultiChoice starts BEE restructuring ahead of Canal+ deal

MultiChoice starts BEE restructuring ahead of Canal+ deal

Inside the MultiChoice City building in Randburg, Johannesburg. MultiChoice, which is being bought by Canal+ in a $3 billion deal, has received all the approvals it needs to restructure the company, ensuring the new entity has empowerment shareholders. The purchase amount currently equates to R52.2 billion, based on this morning’s exchange rate of R17.36. In…

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Africa: UN Presses Ahead With Mission for a Better World Despite Global Headwinds

Africa: Feeding the Future – Africa Surges Ahead On School Meals

Millions of new students are benefitting from school meals, as governments increasingly take leadership of WFP-supported programmes At Olympic Secondary School, in Nairobi’s informal settlement of Kibera, 17-year-old Mercy Mmboga carefully inspects the growth of young spinach leaves, arranged in rows of recycled plastic pipes in the school’s backyard. “I learned about hydroponics in agriculture…

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Vodacom powers ahead with virtual wheeling project

Vodacom powers ahead with virtual wheeling project

Sitho Mdlalose, CEO of Vodacom South Africa. Vodacom has fully operationalised its virtual wheeling project, marking a step forward in the company’s energy transformation journey. Virtual wheeling of electricity is a mechanism that allows electricity generated in one location, often from renewable sources like solar or wind, to be credited to a customer at a…

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