Covid-19 has forced newsrooms to find new business models, but the public has turned to the news more in the last year
Countries with the biggest industrialised economies could see an average loss of 8.5% of economic value by 2050, according to an Oxfam analysis
This is not the first time nor last time that intellectual property laws have allowed western individuals or companies to lay claim to Africa’s cultural, linguistic and even culinary heritage
The Covid-19 pandemic created wealth for some, including internet entrepreneurs, and poverty for many
The United Kingdom, this year’s climate change conference host, wants an in-person event, but Covid factors such as travel restrictions and vaccinations may stop people from attending
The United Nations Population Fund is the world’s largest provider of contraception to poor countries. The UK’s cuts to the agency are almost three times more severe than anything imposed previously by the Trump administration
Is Gates a superhero or a supervillain? That’s the wrong question. The right question is: How it is that one person can have so much influence over world health?
But Big Pharma and the world trade body haven’t shifted on sharing vaccine intellectual property
South Africa is behind others on e-mobility policy. But it’s not too late
The ambitious targets are not set in stone until they are deposited at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change later this year, while legislative processes vary between countries that have stated their mitigation
Other steps to fight climate change include improved reporting, monitoring and laws
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PwC’s Women in Work Index says governments and businesses must tackle causes of inequality
Better laws can stop companies such as Uber from riding roughshod over people who do work for them but are denied employment benefits
Most anti-vaxxers fear the potential side-effects of the vaccine
Respondents to the survey on digital teaching reported a decline in mental health because of unforgiving workloads and expectations placed on them by managers.
The West bought billions of vaccines fast and cheap, leaving poorer nations paying through the nose for years to come
Lockdown forced reluctant South African clothing retail stores online: although foot traffic in brick-and-mortar stores remains important in a mall culture like ours, the secret to success is innovation
The Ethiopian government has created its own ‘fact-checking’ unit — and it is not the only government to do so.
Hopes over Covid-19 vaccines have given a boost to virus-weary citizens across the globe, but the disease remains rampant and world leaders are urging people to be patient
If South Africa is prepared to draw on international harm reduction best practice, it could generate good legislation to regulate vaping and e-cigarettes cleverly
Efforts to bring Lee Nigel Tucker to justice have spanned 16 years and his alleged victims have waited for 30 years
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The aid worker allegedly called his security guard a ‘slave’
Development has been set back by two decades, says the Gates Foundation Goalkeepers report
The regulations aim to prevent money laundering and financing terror organisations, but implementing them is proving to be difficult
China is becoming the preferred destination for countries such as Ghana and Nigeria
The pandemic is an opportunity for universities to set new parameters for interacting with foreign students and staff
Britain’s economy will lose about £22-billion this year on the coronavirus-induced collapse of global travel, which could imperil three million jobs
A more explicit emphasis on the national interest may encourage donor countries to play ‘the long game’ in Africa
The benefits of attending school outweigh the risks and public schools should be allowed to reopen for all learners
The data shows 17 000 more people have died than usual since May, but only 6 000 deaths have officially been attributed to Covid-19
Global food companies avoid paying taxes by shifting profits around the world. Finance Uncovered reports on the case of Icelandic fishing giant Samherji’s operations in Namibia