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Africa: CBD COP17 – Why African Countries Struggle to Mobilise Biodiversity Funding – AfDB Official

eriinfo.com3 days ago07 mins

The African Development Bank says African governments must make biodiversity conservation a national investment priority and integrate it into development planning to close the continent’s biodiversity financing gap. African governments must demonstrate stronger commitment to biodiversity conservation by integrating it into national investment priorities and allocating resources for implementation, an official of the African Development…

Why a robotaxi would struggle to make money in Sandton

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago08 mins

Tesla Cybercab Vodacom and SmartOps Fleet want to put up to 55 000 vehicles on e-hailing platforms in the next nine to 12 months, 66% of them electric, Engineering News reported recently. That is about 36 000 electric vehicles in an industry that today runs just a few hundred. Uber’s electric service launched in Johannesburg in…

Zimbabweans struggle to rebuild after fleeing xenophobia in South Africa | News

eriinfo.com4 weeks ago07 mins

Mutare, Zimbabwe – Samantha Chimbuya had built a life in South Africa after leaving Zimbabwe in 2019 in search of better opportunities. She found work, could afford food and believed her two children had access to better education. She also had access to healthcare. Then, she no longer felt safe. As June 30 approached, a…

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Africa: Killing of Environmental Defenders Reflects Power Struggle Over World’s Resources

eriinfo.com2 months ago016 mins

London & Srinagar, India — At least 124 land and environmental defenders were killed around the world in 2025 while protecting forests, rivers, farmland and Indigenous territories, according to a new report by Global Witness that warns violence against activists remains widespread even as recorded killings have declined from previous years. The report, titled Collective…

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Africa: UN Peace Operations Review May Struggle to Deliver for Africa

eriinfo.com2 months ago011 mins

The review report reflects some of Africa’s demands, but major challenges threaten the implementation of its recommendations. The long-awaited United Nations (UN) Secretary-General’s report on the review of UN peace operations has generated considerable interest. These operations and peacekeeping in particular, face a chronic funding crisis and reduced support from member states, host nations and…

What Iran and US get from deal and why both could struggle to keep it

eriinfo.com5 months ago01 mins

The document, signed separately by US President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, sets out a 60-day framework for negotiations over Iran’s nuclear programme but it also confirms an immediate halt to military operations on all fronts, including Lebanon, mutual respect for sovereignty, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the lifting of…

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Africa: Economic Freedom Remains Africa’s Unfinished Struggle – AfCFTA Boss

eriinfo.com5 months ago08 mins

Africa may have achieved political independence, but the continent’s biggest remaining challenge is economic liberation, according to the Secretary General of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). ALSO READ: Rwanda is where things get done, says AfCFTA’s Wamkele Mene Speaking at an international conference on Africa Day held in Kigali on Sunday, May 24,…

One family’s daily struggle reflects alarming food shortages in Yemen | Hunger

eriinfo.com9 months ago07 mins

Listen to this article | 5 mins Sanaa, Yemen — Until a few years ago, Mehdi Galeb Nasr earned a living pushing an ice cream cart through the streets of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, moving between neighbourhoods to support his family. His livelihood became impossible after his eyesight began to deteriorate rapidly. “Selling ice cream was my…

From resistance to resilience: How Konica Minolta South Africa helped Art Printers transform a struggle legacy into corporate printing power

eriinfo.com11 months ago06 mins

Sanveer Ramdutt with his company’s new AccurioPress C4080. More than eight decades ago, Gainchund Ramdutt stepped into the printing trade in Durban. By 1969, armed with skill and ambition, he founded Art Printers – a family business that would eventually become part of South Africa’s history. During the anti-apartheid struggle, Art Printers wasn’t just a…

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Africa: The Last Great Bulls – Inside Botswana’s Silent Struggle Over Its Elephants

eriinfo.com11 months ago013 mins

Cape Town — When Dr Mike Chase banks the small survey plane over northern Botswana’s mopane woodlands, he can see the country’s wildlife story written in the dust below. Carcasses — some months old, others more recent — lie scattered along ancient elephant paths, mute evidence of drought, hunting and poaching. Farther ahead, the shadows…