By Timi Olubiyi, Ph.D. The rising cost of living is impacting globally but differently, and it is clearly evident that expenses and bills continue to rise steeply. The cost of food, household consumables, and other essentials has skyrocketed in recent times from Cairo, to Botswana, Delhi, Shanghai, London, Houston, Mexico City, Johannesburg, Mumbai, Dublin and Manila, name it. This price...
The Merck Foundation (https://Merck-Foundation.com), the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany celebrates World Hypertension Day 2022 in partnership with African First Ladies, Ministries of Health, Medical Societies and Academia, through its long-term commitment to building capacity for cardiovascular, diabetes and endocrinology care in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Senator Dr. Rasha Kelej, Executive Director of the Merck Foundation, emphasized, “At...
Google on Tuesday said that 60 eligible black-founded start-ups would receive a total of four million dollars in the second cohort of Google for Start-up Black Founders Fund (BFF) Mr Folarin Aiyegbusi, Google’s Head of Start-up Ecosystem, Africa, made this known in a statement announcing opening of applications for Google for Start-up Black Founders Fund for Africa. Aiyegbusi said that...
NBA Africa and KFC Africa (https://order.kfc.co.za/ourtaste/ourfood) today announced a marketing partnership in which NBA Africa and KFC Africa will collaborate on a series of promotions and activations for basketball fans across eight countries on the continent: Botswana, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal and Tanzania. Through the partnership, KFC Africa and NBA Africa will launch co-branded merchandise campaigns, limited...
Energy-intensive industries, such as the mining and minerals sector, are under pressure from governments, investors and society to reduce carbon emissions even as demand for these minerals grows. With most industry players committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050, it is crucial that the mining industry is very deliberate about how it meets the energy needs for its operations and...
Sixty Zimbabweans have been killed by elephants so far this year as a conservation success story has led to increased conflict with humans, a government spokesman said on Tuesday. With 100,000 elephants, Zimbabwe has the second largest population in the world after Botswana and about a quarter of the elephants in all of Africa. Unlike much of the world, where...
US Ambassador Craig L. Cloud traveled to Maun on May 4 to visit partners and projects funded by the US government that demonstrate US support for economic and environmental resilience and the health of the Botswana community. During a visit to Elephant Havens, the Ambassador helped launch a rehabilitation center for orphaned elephants that will facilitate their eventual return to...
With making energy poverty history by 2030 a central theme at the continent’s premier energy event, the African Energy Week (AEW) (https://AECWeek.com) 2022, the African Energy Chamber (AEC) spoke to Stephen Dihwa, Executive Director, Coordination Centre, South African Power Pool, in an exclusive interview, about the role of Africa’s power pools, adding power rather than transitioning, and the possibility of...
By Mark Venables, Consultant, African Mining Indaba (https://MiningIndaba.com) Mining and the circular economy are not phrases that traditionally fit in the same sentence, but in a decarbonized world more minerals and metals will be required, not less. Mining is not often associated with visions of a circular economy. But if the world is going to transition to a low-carbon future,...
The growth of the Mozambique gas market in 2022 and beyond will be a game changer for Africa’s hydrocarbons market and help put the continent on a path to becoming a global energy hub, according to the Outlook Q1 2022 of the African Energy Chamber (AEC), The State of African Energy. At a time when gas production in Africa must...
Nigeria’s Super Falcons have been drawn in Group C of the 2022 Women’s African Cup of Nations alongside rivals South Africa. Also in the group are Botswana and Burundi. This was announced at the official draw ceremony at the Complex Mohamed VI, in Rabat on Friday. Group A in the women football fiesta has hosts Morocco, Burkina Faso, Senegal and...
Energy Gaborone, April 28, 2022 Botswana is racing against time for increased utilisation and application of renewable energy technologies to attain its set target by 2030, an official said Wednesday. Baruti Regoeng, a principal engineer at the department of energy within Botswana’s Ministry of Minerals and Energy, made this known. He said Botswana was looking forward to having 15...
The Chobe and Ngamiland regions lie along the Okavango Delta and more people depend on agriculture to support their livelihoods. The African Migratory Locust (AML) outbreak in the two regions was a thorn in the flesh of subsistence farmers who watched helplessly as AML devastated their crops. Both areas are also home to thousands of wildlife and this makes some...
Although coal has played a very important role in the generation of energy in Africa, global climate policies threaten the continued use of the energy resource, opting instead for cleaner energy sources. The African Energy Chamber (AEC) (www.EnergyChamber.org), as the voice of the African energy sector, believes that Africa must maintain the role of coal as a vital part of...
Mining London, April 21, 2022 Cooper production was down in the first three months of 2022 at British multinational mining company Anglo American Plc. Anglo American reported on Thursday that copper equivalent production in the normally slower first quarter was 10 per cent lower than the same period in 2021. The weak production reflected peak COVID-related absenteeism, high rainfall...
The Africa Coalition for Sustainable Energy Access (ACSEA) and the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance on Tuesday launched the Nigeria platform for a people-centred energy transition project in Africa. The three-year project is being implemented in four other countries namely Kenya, Botswana, Cameroon and Morocco. ACSEA National Coordinator for Nigeria, Dr Godwin Uyi-Ojo said that, through the ACSEA Nigeria platform,...
UAE-based BUTEC (www.BUTEC.com), a leading procurement group in the MENA and GCC regions, recently completed the acquisition of 17 energy services companies in Africa formerly owned by the global energy player, ENGIE Group. The acquisition process was completed on March 31, 2022, after the initial agreement signed on December 16 between both groups. The acquisition of these 17 companies, based...
Africa is experiencing its longest decline in COVID-19 infections since the start of the pandemic. Weekly recorded cases have been declining for the past 16 weeks, while deaths have been declining for the past eight. Infections, largely due to the fourth wave of the Omicron-driven pandemic, have fallen from a peak of more than 308,000 weekly cases at the beginning...
Africa (https://bit.ly/3ro6oob) is still grappling with the energy poverty crisis, a problem that is becoming more acute as a result of declining investment and lack of adequate infrastructure. Renewable energy sources, despite their wide availability across the continent, may fall short of meeting Africa’s electricity demand (https://bit.ly/38OB1wL) in the short to medium term, leading to to the continued use of...
Researchers in Botswana and South Africa have detected new sublineages of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 and are conducting further research to fully understand crucial traits such as infectivity and virulence. The sublineage variants identified are BA.4 and BA.5. Experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) are working with scientists and researchers in the two countries to further analyze the...
