Africa 2024: contrasting Growth, shared Resilience [Business Africa]

In this edition of Business Africa, we analyze the resilience of the African economy in 2024, marked by modest growth of 3.6% despite global crises. We also discover Botswana’s innovation with the Inshelve app, which is reinventing transport and grocery …

South Africa’s first post-94 education minister dies

Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Professor Blade Nzimande has expressed his deep sadness at the death of Professor Sibusiso Bengu, aged 90. Bengu led Fort Hare University into the democratic era as its vice chancellor in the early 1990s, and …

2025 Africa Eco Race: Early Stages Recap

The 2025 Africa Eco Race is on, and it’s actually on, not just in the prelim stages that don’t really count. They’re a couple of days into the race now, in Morocco after taking the ferry from Europe at the end of December. On January 5, they’ll have a rest …

BP’s Greater Tortue Ahmeyim Produces First Gas in West Africa

BP has started gas flow from Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) Phase 1 deepwater project, offshore Mauritania and Senegal. The gas from wells at the GTA Phase1 liquefied natural gas (LNG) project now flows to the floating production storage and offloading (FPSO …

Algeria Takes Helm of UN Security Council, Pledges Focus on Palestine and Africa

January 2, 2025 Hour: 1:50 pm Algeria has assumed the rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council for the month of January, vowing to prioritize issues of critical importance to the Global South, particularly the plight of Palestine and the …

Report: Morocco’s car production surges in 2023, ranking 24th globally, second in Africa

Morocco contributes 0.6% to global car production in 2023, ranking 24th among the top 30 countries in terms of motor vehicle production worldwide, according to the International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers (OICA), as reported by Visual …

The surprising consequences of peanuts in West Africa

The first reliable record is from the 1650s, by G.A. Cavazzi da Montecuccolo in what is now Congo or Angola. By the late 1600s writers noted three kinds of undergound beans on the Gold Coast. One of these, W. Bosman wrote, "have been known to us but a …

Save South Africa wants COGTA to reconsider terminating CWP contracts of people aged 55 and older

JOHANNESBURG - Civic organisation, Save South Africa, says it has asked the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs to reconsider terminating the temporary employment contracts of people aged 55 and older. On Tuesday, COGTA announced …

Severe weather warning issued for parts of South Africa, northern KZN already experiencing flooding

Disruptive rainfall and thunderstorms are expected for large parts of the country on Friday, 3 January 2025 Some parts of the country are set to experience damaging winds and excessive lightning over the coming weekend Vryheid in Northern KwaZulu-Natal has …

Kwena Mapakha: South Africa’s youngest Test debutant