Climate refugees who abandon drying agricultural lands in frontier countries and head to South Africa to seek new livelihoods are encountering crushing hardship in this country. ‘Crop yield, livestock failed. That’s why we came to South Africa confident of a fresh start,” says Joshua Tuso (41), an undocumented migrant from Zimbabwe. But “it has been…
Nj Ayuk, Executive Chairman, African Energy Chamber At ADIPEC this year, I was skeptical about participating in COP 30. African nations are heading to Brazil for COP 30 in Belem. The United States, under President Donald Trump, has closed its office of climate diplomacy and will not be sending any representatives to the event. The…
STORY HIGHLIGHTS In five years, a Nairobi-based glass recycling business has grown from 60 to 140 employees and an annual revenue of $800,000. The business received a $36,000 grant from the World Bank-funded Kenya Youth Employment and Opportunities Project (KYEOP). Through the KYEOP’s MbeleNaBiz Initiative, 750 young Kenyans received grants of $9,000 or $36,000 to…
The communications & digital technologies department has issued a wide-ranging request for information (RFI) inviting potential partners to help modernise and commercialise key parts of the South African Post Office (Sapo), including its digital platform. It forms part of the company’s turnaround strategy to optimise its assets and infrastructure through partnerships with both the private…
Anthony ZurcherNorth America correspondent Students flee as Charlie Kirk is shot while speaking to a crowd of hundreds Moments before the crack of a gunshot changed everything, thousands of students had gathered under clear blue skies at an idyllic Utah college to hear from a man considered a rock star in conservative campus politics. As…
Keep every endpoint updated and secure. Patch management has long been one of the most basic yet burdensome responsibilities for IT teams. The job is simple in theory: keep every endpoint updated and secure. But in practice, patching is an ever-growing challenge, made harder by device diversity, distributed workforces and the reality that most tools…
