Analysts caution that the benefits would depend on effective management of windfall revenues and the extent to which they translate into broader economic development.
Browsing: Crisis
Six years after SARS-CoV-2 emerged, vaccination has sharply reduced deaths and hospital pressure, but the remaining burden is more concentrated, complex and difficult to track. A new review argues that the next phase of COVID policy must focus less on raw case numbers and more on vulnerability, long-term illness and health-system readiness.
How far will the FGF sink? After the brief presidency of Bouba Sampil, dismissed by his own Executive Committee for issues of equipment embezzlement and financial opacity, his successor, Sory Doumbouya (appointed as the most senior vice-president in accordance with the statutes), did not manage to ease the tensions.
Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières- MSF) has launched an emergency medical response after a surge in anti-migrant violence displaced tens of thousands of people across South Africa, leaving at least four people dead and destroying homes in multiple provinces.
As fertility rates continue to decline worldwide and an estimated one in six people experience infertility during their lifetime, a University of Cape Town (UCT) academic is helping to bring greater attention to one of the emerging environmental factors linked to reproductive health.
Climate change is no longer just an environmental issue in South Africa – it is undermining constitutional rights by disrupting access to education, healthcare and other essential services. As floods become more frequent and severe, the government must urgently implement climate adaptation measures instead of relying on reactive disaster responses
African policymakers dealing with the current oil shock would do well to recall the Chinese word for crisis, 危机 (wēijī), which has two characters: 危 (wēi), meaning “danger”, and 机 (jī), meaning “opportunity”. The current oil shock presents Africa with both. Import costs are rising, currencies are depreciating, fuel subsidies are consuming scarce fiscal space,…
Business has never been as brisk for Nigerian solar panel retailer Samuel Okechukwu and his team of installation technicians, who are struggling to keep up with orders since the Iran war caused local fuel prices to double
Rapid urbanisation in cities like Abuja has caused waste generation to outpace management systems, resulting in overflowing bins, clogged drainage and environmental degradation