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DHL Adds Sustainable Marine Fuel Option For Full-Container Load Shipments

.DHL Global Forwarding is offering to reduce its main haul carbon emissions with the use of Sustainable Marine Fuels for ocean freight . Customers can now decarbonize their entire ocean freight supply chains .The new service offers a fuel-switch on behalf of the customer DHL Global Forwarding, the air and ocean freight specialist division of Deutsche […]

Raising Capital for Africa's Development Goals

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has launched a $464m five-and-a-half-year ‘kangaroo’ social bond, its first return to Australian fundraising since 2018. A kangaroo bond, sometimes known as a matilda bond, is a foreign bond issued in the Australian market by non-Australian firms denominated in Australian currency. AfDB social bonds raise money for projects that alleviate […]

Bringing Informal Retailers in Africa into the Digital Economy

Kenyan startup MarketForce, an end-to-end retail distribution platform for consumer brands, has announced the strategic acquisition of Digiduka. Launched in 2018, MarketForce enables consumer brands to optimise how they deliver essential goods and services to retailers and consumers by bridging the information gap in last mile distribution, while maximising efficiency across the sales and distribution value chain. The […]

Zambia's Founding Father Kenneth Kaunda is in a "Serious but Stable Condition"

The 97-year-old, who served as president from 1964 to 1991, was admitted to hospital last Tuesday with a minor chest infection, and was actually due to be discharged today. But his condition changed overnight and became worrying this morning. Both Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu and South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa have urged people to pray […]

Mali's Basketball Foundation Rocked by Sex Scandal

The Malian president of Fiba, Hamane Niang, has agreed to step aside as an investigation is held into allegations of systemic sexual harassment within the Mali Basketball Federation (FMB). Concerns were raised on 10 June through the New York Times and Human Rights Watch leading to basketball’s world governing body to open a probe into […]

Zimbabwe Releases Local Reporter Working for The New York Times

JOHANNESBURG — A freelance reporter working for The New York Times was granted bail and released from a Zimbabwe jail on Wednesday, three weeks after the authorities arrested him on charges that he improperly helped two Times journalists make a reporting trip to the country. The release of the reporter, Jeffrey Moyo, came after a […]

Launch Of The African Sanitation Policy Guidelines – African Ministers’ Council On Water

(Amcow-Aspglaunch.Com) Event hosted by African Ministers’ Council on Water Thursday, 10th June 2021, 15 :00 HRS (GMT+1) Register here The ASPG was developed in close consultation with the member states of the African Union and sector stakeholders. It aims to guide African countries to improve or develop sanitation policies and implementation strategies to strengthen the enabling environment […]

Young Nigerians with Disabilities Look to Soccer for Relief

Soccer among young people with disabilities is increasingly popular in Nigeria. In Katsina, one team trains daily for national competition. But their activity serves above all for leisure and health. Disability doesn’t stop them from playing soccer. The activity is recreational and serves for socialization. Here, obstacles stay off the court. The rules of the […]

The 6th Agrofood & Plastprintpack Nigeria A Major Milestone Event

Top level 3-day Nigeria conference on free trade, plastics industry,  global packaging standards, food safety, finance & digitalization  (Heidelberg/Lagos) Due to upbeat market development and an ever-increasing interest in the  Nigerian market, the 6th edition of agrofood Nigeria & plastprintpack Nigeria in 2021 is all set to  become a major milestone event for the Nigerian […]

“There is Famine Now in Tigray” – UN Aid Chief

About 350,000 people in Ethiopia’s conflict-torn Tigray region are facing “catastrophic” food shortages, according to an analysis by United Nations agencies and aid groups. If the conflict deepens or humanitarian assistance is hampered, most areas of Tigray will be at risk of famine, it said. Even if aid deliveries are stepped up, the situation is […]