The system managing international climate finance is still linked with opaqueness climate justice campaigners say limit the flow of the funds to the grassroots. COURTESY PHOTO
Mozambique is the latest casualty reeling from effects of cyclone Chido. Heavy rainfall affected roughly 11 million people, including 2,500 fatalities and 4 million displacements in 27 countries.
Rwanda’s ruling class needs to foster freedom of thought even if it comes at the cost of the citizenry becoming critical of how affairs of the State are run.
Suppple Plc, a London-Cape Town-based information technology and artificial intelligence company unveiled an app designed to assist regulators and consumers in identifying fake goods, including medicines.
Internet shutdowns have remained widespread despite the proliferation of a wide range technologies, including sophisticated ones, used by Governments for censorship, propaganda and surveillance.
To take on internet platforms calls for collective bargaining from not just media companies but regulators or regional countries in order to leverage their strengths.
AU currently heavily relies on donor funding at 91 per cent. Member States contribute only 9 per cent of the budget needed to carry out its activities. This has a bearing on its independence.
Despite Governments in Africa making strides when it comes to strengthening surveillance, laboratory systems and logistics, there has been minimal focus on risk communication.
Rwanda’s struggle with climate change is a long-standing ordeal, marked by floods, landslides, and prolonged droughts that result in famine in some parts of the country.
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.
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.
Rwanda will join a long list of countries that so far require travel operators to share passenger details such as names, nationality, itinerary, and other information held in their systems ahead of departure.
