UNESCO: Africa is next frontier in fashion industry but it’s growth is limited by low investment
“Africans want to wear Africa. It’s really beautiful to see because it hasn’t always been like this,” said Omoyemi Akerele, who founded the Lagos Fashion Week in 2011 to encourage the patronage of Nigerian and African fashion. “But fast forward, a decade after, that’s all people want to wear.”
Germany pledges four billion euros for Africa’s green energy development
Discussions centred around the global economy, current challenges, including high inflation and geopolitical tension; and the need to incentivise investments in global public goods, such as tackling climate change; strengthening trade in a multipolar world; simultaneously combating labour shortages and unemployment; and strengthening multilateralism.
In the past sanctions deterred coups in Africa, there’s growing evidence they no longer work
A trend in the current third wave of coups is that sanctions did not prevent repeated overthrows in Sudan, Mali and Burkina Faso. Nor have they deterred the unlawful assumption of power by soldiers in Guinea, Niger, Chad and Gabon. Several of these countries have yet to restore constitutional order or revert to the status quo, meaning coup-makers are driving the transition agendas. The latest example is Mali, where presidential elections planned for February 2004 have been postponed.
NBA Africa’s first original basketball documentary series Born & Bred premieres on NBA
The first two episodes were available since November 21, 2023. Basketball Chose Me featuring Chinyelu will be available free on the NBA App. Dunk at First Sight featuring Neto and the remainder of the series will be available exclusively via NBA League Pass, the league’s premium live game subscription service. The final three episodes will be available weekly beginning Monday, November 27.
Debt restructuring: Zambia dealt major setback as official creditors object to bond deal
Zambia’s debt restructuring is taking place under the Common Framework, a process set up in response to Covid-19 by the G20 to bring in China, India and other bilateral creditors that are not members of the Paris Club of creditor nations.
London exhibition lays bare how women from Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana are trapped in sex slavery in UAE
The exhibition is an immersive journey into the dark and complex world of human trafficking, providing visitors with an opportunity to hear real testimonies from survivors and activists from Africa and around the world.
Central Europe’s war industry scrambles for African weapons market as Russia battles Ukraine
The Czech Republic in 2022 exported ammunition, guns, aircraft and other military supplies valued at around 32 million euros to 10 sub-Saharan African countries, many which rely on Soviet-era weapons manufactured with different standards and calibres than those used in the West. This was up from just under 2 million euros in 2011.
27-year-old Indonesian police officer becomes youngest ever woman to be honoured with top UN award
Rismayanti is a crime database officer with the UN mission MINUSCA. She, a statement has it, helped conceptualise and develop a criminal database that enables UN police to map and analyse crime and disorder hotspots.
South Africa ranked seventh in the world, third in Africa among countries with most organised crime
The index reveals that South Africa grapples with more than one form of organised crime. These include human, arms, organ and drug trafficking, child labour, labour exploitation, domestic servitude and child brides. These forms of organised crime have created thriving criminal markets that are supported by the influence of criminal actors – responsible for years of state capture – and criminal networks that are highly interconnected.
WHO pays Congolese sexual abuse victims $250 to retain dignity and reputation of UN agency
For a visiting WHO staffer working in Congo, the standard daily allowance ranges from about $144 to $480. Gamhewage received $231 a day during her three-day trip to the Congolese capital Kinshasa, according to an internal travel claim.
