The COVID-19 outbreak has had a devastating global effect in almost all sectors, including the publishing industry in Africa. Many African publishers are said to be overdependent on selling printed textbooks to governments, a one-track business model that has had a catastrophic impact on them when COVID-19 closed schools and drove learning online. Now, the Africa Publishing Innovation Fund (APIF) committee, led by the international Publishers Association (IPA) and comprising veteran publishers from Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tunisia, and South Africa, believes cultivating reading for fun in Africa - especially among children and young adults - stands to bring the continent wide socioeconomic advancements to the industry in the long term. More from Brian Wafawarowa, a member of the APIF committee…

African Publishing

The African Energy Chamber has announced the official launch of African Energy Week 2021, which will take place in Cape Town on November 9-12, 2021. 

The week is expected to showcase the first-ever African Energy Village, an interactive exhibition and networking event that seeks to unite African energy stakeholders, drive industry growth and development, and promote Africa as the destination for African-focused events. 

More from NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairperson of the African Energy Chamber...

The African Energy Chamber has announced the official launch of African Energy Week 2021, which will take place in Cape Town on November 9-12, 2021. The week is expected to showcase the first-ever African Energy Village, an interactive exhibition and networking event that seeks to unite African energy stakeholders, drive industry growth and development, and promote Africa as the destination for African-focused events. More from NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairperson of the African Energy Chamber...

African Energy Week 2021 launches

The Southern African Laboratory Diagnostics Association (Salda) is today hosting a seminar to showcase innovation and industry collaboration on the current status and future of the In Vitro Diagnostic or IVD market in the region, the continent and the world under the auspices of the forthcoming Africa Bio Convention.

Among the issues to be discussed are the procurement processes of IVD products in the public sector, the development of local manufacturers in the IVD industry as well as policy reforms concerning the National Health Insurance Fund. More from Sarah Cohen, Executive Officer of Salda...

The Southern African Laboratory Diagnostics Association (Salda) is today hosting a seminar to showcase innovation and industry collaboration on the current status and future of the In Vitro Diagnostic or IVD market in the region, the continent and the world under the auspices of the forthcoming Africa Bio Convention. Among the issues to be discussed are the procurement processes of IVD products in the public sector, the development of local manufacturers in the IVD industry as well as policy reforms concerning the National Health Insurance Fund. More from Sarah Cohen, Executive Officer of Salda...

Status of IVD products around NHI

In commemoration of Youth Day today, we are joined on the line by one of the youth entrepreneurs in South Africa, Nhlamulo Bila. He is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bila ICT Solutions. Bila began his entrepreneurial journey in 2012, and has currently been nominated for the Founder Of The Year Awards in Africa as part of the nominees emerging from Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, South Africa, Ghana, and Nigeria...

Youth Month – a Chat with Nhlamulo Bila

The 2021 Highway Africa summit conference will be held virtually this year from June 21-23.

The summit is said to be Africa's biggest conference for journalists, media scholars and NGOs working in the media. More from Director of Highway Africa, Francis Mdlongwa…

The 2021 Highway Africa summit conference will be held virtually this year from June 21-23. The summit is said to be Africa's biggest conference for journalists, media scholars and NGOs working in the media. More from Director of Highway Africa, Francis Mdlongwa…

HIGHWAY-AFRICA

Countries around the world will on Sunday commemorate World Refugee Day. World Refugee Day is an international day organised every year on 20 June by the United Nations. 

It is designed to celebrate and honour refugees from around the world. 

The day was first established on 20 June 2001, in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. More from Muluti Phiri, Advocacy Officer for the Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa, CoRMSA....

Countries around the world will on Sunday commemorate World Refugee Day. World Refugee Day is an international day organised every year on 20 June by the United Nations. It is designed to celebrate and honour refugees from around the world. The day was first established on 20 June 2001, in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. More from Muluti Phiri, Advocacy Officer for the Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa, CoRMSA....

CORMSA-REFUGEE

Now to South Sudan, where reports say, nearly half of the country's twelve million people have refused to be vaccinated against the Covid-19 infection because it causes infertility or blood clots. 

Channel Africa's James Shimanyula has more.

Now to South Sudan, where reports say, nearly half of the country's twelve million people have refused to be vaccinated against the Covid-19 infection because it causes infertility or blood clots. Channel Africa's James Shimanyula has more.

COVID- S SUDAN

Zimbabweans received the message of the death of the late Dr Kenneth Kaunda former Zambian President on Thursday with shock. 

They have hailed the late Dr Kaunda for his contribution to the country's liberation struggle. 

They spoke of the sacrifice Kaunda made at the expense of his own people in a bid to liberate the continent. John Cassim, reporting has more from Harare....

Zimbabweans received the message of the death of the late Dr Kenneth Kaunda former Zambian President on Thursday with shock. They have hailed the late Dr Kaunda for his contribution to the country's liberation struggle. They spoke of the sacrifice Kaunda made at the expense of his own people in a bid to liberate the continent. John Cassim, reporting has more from Harare....

ZIM-MOURNS

The death of Zambia's first President and founding father, Kenneth Kaunda, has not only saddened Zambians but the international community as well. 

Zambia's icon who has been described as "God's Gift To Zambia" by his former first cabinet Minister, died on Thursday aged 97, after an illness. Channel Africa's Arthur Davies Sikopo has more from Lusaka.

The death of Zambia's first President and founding father, Kenneth Kaunda, has not only saddened Zambians but the international community as well. Zambia's icon who has been described as "God's Gift To Zambia" by his former first cabinet Minister, died on Thursday aged 97, after an illness. Channel Africa's Arthur Davies Sikopo has more from Lusaka.

ZAMBIA-KAUNDA

Tributes continue to pour in for Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia's first President and one of the last of the generation of African leaders who fought colonialism, who died on Thursday aged 97. 

Kaunda was admitted to a military hospital in the capital, Lusaka, on Monday suffering from pneumonia. 

In the 1950s, Kaunda was a key figure in what was then Northern Rhodesia's independence movement from Britain. 

For more on this Ayanda Mkhwanazi spoke to Zambian based MacDonald Chipenzi - Executive Director of Governance, Elections, Advocacy, Research Services Initiative......

Tributes continue to pour in for Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia's first President and one of the last of the generation of African leaders who fought colonialism, who died on Thursday aged 97. Kaunda was admitted to a military hospital in the capital, Lusaka, on Monday suffering from pneumonia. In the 1950s, Kaunda was a key figure in what was then Northern Rhodesia's independence movement from Britain. For more on this Ayanda Mkhwanazi spoke to Zambian based MacDonald Chipenzi - Executive Director of Governance, Elections, Advocacy, Research Services Initiative......

LEGACY-KAUNDA

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