If adopted, the legislation could see all non-essential single use plastic items — from cutlery, plates, cups, cotton buds, straws, balloons, sweet wrappers to wet wipes and others — banned across all the seven EAC countries.
Interacting properly with animals, wildlife, livestock and pets can help reduce outbreaks of zoonotic diseases. It is equally important to routinely vaccinate animals.
Governments in Africa need to expedite the ratification of the Addis Ababa Convention and move ahead to enforce it as a matter of urgency if the continent is to catch up with the rest of the world, address parity in education quality, and tackle the rampant brain drain.
African Union officials confirmed that work is underway to establish the African Monetary Institute, after which the continent will be in a position to establish the African central bank and later a single African currency.
As long as you can use a normal digital device or a mobile phone, there are platforms that give you access to tools that allow you to join the emerging league of citizen/no code developers.
Regions of Africa grapple with high levels of digital illiteracy, implying that even if the people get access to smartphones and other digital tools, they struggle to meaningfully use them to create opportunities that transform their lives.
With common trade rules, movement of people and transport connectivity, Africa becomes a market large enough to attract investors from across the world, and a vehicle for industrialization, analysts say.
African leaders lay hopes in the creative and innovative potential of youth and women across sectors of the economy to achieve gains envisioned under AU Agenda 2063, and more specifically the success of AfCFTA.
Each year, Africa loses estimated $195 billion worth of its natural capital – things such as water, air, forests, oceans or wildlife, which provide ecosystem services that make human life possible — and this worries conservationists.
Scientists believe that if harnessed, Africa resilience to the vagaries of climate change could solve the ongoing global food crisis, but could take an unimaginable toll on the world as we know it, if unaddressed.
There have been grievances from a section of news consumers that journalists fail to communicate properly climate policy discourses to the public. In fact, many criticised the coverage of the Africa Climate Summit as full of jargons.
Mr. Audace Kubwimana is of the view that land tenure security issues have not gained the attention they deserve and they should feature prominently in deliberations leading up to the UN climate negotiations this year.
