The African oil industry has attracted over $30-billion investment in logistics, distribution, storage terminals, import facilities and retail marketing in recent years. The information was disclosed during the fourteenth annual conference of the African Refiners and Distributors Association (ARA), held in Cape Town over the weekend. According to reports from the ARA conference, new prospecting, […]
The World Health Organization declared the outbreak of the Mpox new virus strain in the Congo and elsewhere in Africa a global emergency. “The detection and rapid spread of a new Clade of mpox in eastern DRC, its detection in neighbouring countries that had not previously reported mpox, and the potential for further spread within […]
The World Health Organization has elected Ethiopia’s former health minister and malaria expert Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as director-general. He’s the first African to ever hold the position in nearly seven decades of the existence of WHO, one of the most powerful UN agencies, employing some 8000 people across the world. He replaces Margaret Chan, […]
