Africa is a rich continent with huge potential in renewable energy. UN Special Adviser for Africa, Bitsat Yohannes-Kassahun, says the focus on energy is essential to unlock the continent's future during the pandemic recovery. The recommendation is to expand Africans' access to "reliable, affordable and sustainable energy," the UN advisor for Africa argues, quoted in a UN News agency publication. The...
Mozambique closed the year 2021 with a debt of two billion dollars with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) according to a report by the banking institutions. The WB - the institution that lent the most in 2021 - has been increasing the amount of loans for four years. Last year it ceded...
The Ministry of Education and Human Development (MINEDH) has announced that the start of classes for the 2022 school year will officially be January 31. With the official opening on January 31, the first trimester of this year runs until May 6. The second trimester starts on May 16 and has the...
Two years after the pandemic, economies around the world are still registering huge losses in the tourism sector. That is why the World Tourism Organization (WTO) is advocating a new strategy for the tourism sector that it says could represent an opportunity to revive the sector. The executive director of the WTO,...
The European Union (EU) is making efforts to label Mozambique gas as environmentally friendly, i.e. "green gas." The expectation is to continue exploiting the gas even after the year 2050, when the continent should be free of all kinds of fossil energy sources. There is already a...
The growing deterioration of the macroeconomy in Angola led the President of the Republic to order an increase of about 241 million meticals to the dredging contract at the port of Cabinda, under the responsibility of the Portuguese group Mota-Engil, even without making known the value of the contract signed previously. "The worsening of macroeconomic conditions...
Early studies showed that there was a reduced risk of hospitalization for omicron compared to delta, there also appears to be a reduced risk of severity in both younger and older people, according to the WHO. According to WHO's chief in clinical management, Janet Diaz, the impact on the elderly is a...
Hungarian researchers have found that dogs' brains can detect speech and show different activity patterns to familiar and unknown language. "The interesting thing here is that there was a difference in the response of [the dogs'] brains to familiar and unknown language," said the head of the department of ethology (animal studies)...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (Nigeria), Samia Suluhu (Tanzania), and Mo Abudu (Nigeria) are the three most powerful women in Africa in 2021, according to the latest Forbes annual publication. We introduce you to their journey and what they do... Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala The first most powerful African woman in Africa, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, is an economist and international development professional. She holds...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, states that there has been a 28.1% increase in food costs in the year 2021, when compared to 2020. The FAO avers that during the period, the annual benchmark index reached 125.7 points. This is the "highest observed increase since the 131.9 points recorded in 2011," notes the...