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U.S. Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons Cindy Dyer will travel to Madagascar November 13-16 and South Africa November 17-21. Ambassador Dyer will meet with government officials in both countries to discuss efforts to combat human trafficking and strengthen our cooperation and partnership on this important issue. She will encourage progress on victim […]

Countries need to agree on a new collective quantified goal for climate finance in Baku. Here are the key fault lines. ADVERTISEMENT The issue of finance is set to dominate the 29th UN climate summit in Azerbaijan.  Money is the life blood of climate action; enabling cleaner industries to grow in place of polluting ones,

I‘ve seen technology reshape our world repeatedly. Previous technology platforms amplified human capabilities but didn’t fundamentally alter the essence of human intellect. They extended our reach but didn’t multiply our minds. Artificial intelligence is different. It’s past the point where a difference in degree becomes a difference in kind. AI amplifies and multiplies the human

Pick n Pay Clothing has introduced its latest flagship store in Johannesburg with the reopening of its Mall of Africa store. The retailer has added 32 new stores to its network in 2024, with plans to open another 12 by the end of the year. Image supplied Many existing stores, such as Rosebank and the

Young Africans are set to transform the digital health landscape with the launch of the Youth in Digital Health Network (YiDHN) by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) in collaboration with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit-African Union (GIZ-AU) office. Africa CDC’s Youth Division announced this program on the sidelines of

Updated: 11/11/2024 – 17:24 GMT+1 King Charles III led the nation on Sunday in a two-minute silence in remembrance of fallen service personnel in central London as the Princess of Wales looked on, a further sign the royal family is slowly returning to normal at the end of a year in which two of the

BAKU, Azerbaijan — Soaring rhetoric, urgent pleas and pledges of cooperation contrasted with a backdrop of seismic political changes, global wars and economic hardships as United Nations annual climate talks began Monday and got right to the hard part: money. In Baku, Azerbaijan, where the world’s first oil well was drilled and the smell of

The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra) has expressed concern at the increasing presence of counterfeit Glucagon-like Peptide (GLP-1) products, such as Ozempic, on the local market. According to Sahpra, GLP-1-containing products, like Ozempic, which help lower blood-sugar levels and promote weight loss, are being made available to the public through websites, social media,

As COP29 opens in Baku, Greenpeace Africa calls on world leaders to deliver ambitious climate finance to African nations bearing the brunt of the climate crisis. With climate finance to developing countries dwarfed by fossil fuel industry’s profits and subsidies, African communities–who have contributed least to the crisis–are calling for immediate implementation of a Climate

Under the new proposal, the current four-month fully paid leave could be extended to six months, and five-month leave at 80% pay could increase to seven months. ADVERTISEMENT A proposal for extending fully paid parental leave in Portugal to six months is currently under parliamentary review but will not be approved by the end of