Latest articles on Sub Saharan Africa

Covid-19 deepens the educational divide

Coronavirus Bongekile Macupe - 26 Jun 2020

With the closure of schools, learning has moved to online platforms across the world, but a UNESCO report said only 12% of households in the least-developed countries have internet access at home

Global finance and charity killed African healthcare

Africa Francis Valentine Garikayi - 8 Jun 2020

What happened to the once universally accepted idea of healthcare for all?

Rare Gabon burial cave reveals clues to African history

Africa Camille Malplat - 9 Mar 2020

There are 30 skeletons in the Iroungou cave, and carbon dating has shown they are from the 14th century. It is only the second cave burial site to be unearthed on the continent

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Emerging markets, especially in sub-Sahara, hotting up

Analysis Jim Oneill - 3 Jan 2020

Emerging market equities are generally inexpensive — and, by some measures, quite attractive — relative to equity and bond markets globally.

Countries fail to reach gender equality goal — report

Article Mashadi Kekana - 5 Jun 2019

A report measuring gender equality across 129 countries has found that none of the countries achieved an ‘excellent’ score of 90 out of 100

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New look, old ways? Benin’s leader and the authoritarian past

Africa Sophie Bouillon - 2 May 2019

Elected in 2016 by defeating the preferred successor of Thomas Boni Yayi, Patrice Talon won the top job without a traditional political power base

Botswana hangs on to the death penalty

Article Staff Reporter - 31 Aug 2018

Most of Africa is abandoning the death penalty but Botswana — an affluent, landlocked, diamond-exporting state — is among the leading exceptions

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How sub-Saharan Africa can harness its big electricity opportunities

Article Staff Reporter - 22 Jun 2018

The region needs to overcome constraints on financing and infrastructure before it can take advantage of its potential

Ugandan invention revolutionises malaria testing

Africa Simon Allison - 19 Jun 2018

An award-winning device created by a Ugandan engineer and his colleagues could replace expensive blood tests

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Key challenges for Kenya in big push to reduce post— harvest losses

Article Priscilla Wainaina - 16 Apr 2018

Post-harvest management will reduce losses and improve food availability

Looting of Africa calls for action

Article Patrick Bond - 9 Feb 2018

Top-down regulatory measures come to naught, so the battle must be fought from the bottom up

Report: UN peacekeeping arms losses could equip an army

Africa bogdan TagDiv - 13 Nov 2017

UN-backed peacekeepers have lost enough guns and ammunition in sub-Saharan Africa over the past two decades to arm an army, said Small Arms Survey

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Africa snared in a web of eurobond debt

Analysis bogdan TagDiv - 26 May 2016

Sovereign bonds in sub-Saharan countries bring a false sense of alternative funding and huge debt

Africa’s ticking time bomb: $35-billion worth of Eurobond debt

Analysis bogdan TagDiv - 23 May 2016

At least a dozen sub-Saharan Africa countries have raised debt through sovereign bonds. The chickens are now coming home to roost.

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Sub-Saharan Africa’s marginalisation an ‘opportunity’

Africa Jakkie Cillier - 10 Feb 2016

The continent is poised to flourish – if leaders ensure the rule of law and improve services.

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Carrying ‘weapons’ while striking is still a sticking point

Sarah Smit - 13 Aug 2020

An upcoming CCMA case will consider whether workers carrying sticks at a strike is an act of intimidation or a call for unity

National

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Fikile has a daring plan for taxis

Thanduxolo Jika & Mail Guardian Correspondent - 13 Aug 2020

The transport minister presented to the ANC’s top body a proposal to establish a bank for taxi operators and to subsidise the industry

National

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Nicotine is given as the ‘likely’ reason for lower Covid-19 infection rates but authorities still stress the health risk of smoking

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Smokers hold thumbs for cigarette ban to be lifted

special reports - 7 Aug 2020

SATTA is worried about the impact of the ban on its own members activities and how the ban is helping black marketeers to make millions of rands illegally