South Africa’s $400 million African Development Bank-backed Mpumalanga Municipal Utility Reform Programme (MURP) is more than an infrastructure financing package. It represents a new approach to municipal reform by linking funding directly to measurable improvements in electricity and water services rather than simply financing projects. For Mpumalanga Province, where ageing infrastructure, financial pressures and service…
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The European Commission has unveiled its carbon market reform, which is the cornerstone of its climate policy. It aims to balance decarbonization with competitiveness, but its impact on emissions is already a matter of debate.
It is the task of the institutional reformer not only to push for concrete reform steps and policies, or take stock of the steady achievements of reform articulation and implementation. It is also very cogent for the institutional reformer to always stay ahead of political and electoral dynamics. The civil service was founded on its…
President Bola Tinubu will attend the 2026 United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York this September, where he is expected to present his administration’s reform agenda and highlight Nigeria’s economic progress. Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Jimoh Ibrahim, disclosed this after a meeting with the……
July 14 (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo’s main mining industry body has warned that proposed changes to mining laws aimed at tightening state control could dent investor confidence in the world’s top cobalt producer, a document seen by Reuters on Monday shows
Editor’s note: The following article is part of a series of reports exploring the influence of the US Christian nationalist movement on both human rights and sexual and reproductive health access in Africa. Read the first article here
President Bola Tinubu has given his approval for a comprehensive reform of the National Youth Service Corps, introducing significant changes that will see the scheme transition to civilian operational leadership, adopt a new uniform design, and implement various measures aimed at modernizing national service and equipping young Nigerians with skills for national development.
The South African Law Reform Commission (SALRC) has issued a call for entries for this year’s Legal Essay Writing Competition