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.
Current cleanup technologies are ‘clean-washing traps’ which Govts in Africa, a continent disproportionately affected by the global waste menace caused largely by industrialized nations, should not fall for.
Circular startups battle multitude of constraints ranging from limited access to funding, inadequate policy frameworks to provide incentives, and limited demand for circular products, among others.
Current data extraction trend has been linked to both the legal loopholes and lack of infrastructure such as data centres on the continent to act as repository for data generated locally.
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.
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.
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.
Africa holds solutions to climate change. Ignoring its demands will have implications on everyone and could negate climate efforts by other parts of the world namely Europe and the United States, experts say.
Ongoing crisis left countries with little to show for many years of pledged investment in the agriculture transformation to boost local supply of key food items and agriculture commodities.
African authorities still owe us a different, better version — one wrapped up in the free-movement-of-people envelope with a visa-free tag visible at the back.
