SELECTED FINAL RESULTS ⛳🏌️♂️ ✳ 1st BROOMHEAD Jonathan 🇿🇦 270 (-18) ✳ 2nd FAKORI El Mehdi 🇲🇦 272 ✳ 3rd ADAM Bresnu 🇲🇦 275 ✳ 6th TAUFIQ SALIM Adel 🇰🇪 281 ✳ 22nd Emma Jakisa 🇺🇬 297 ✳ 26th Colline Ajidra 🇺🇬 303 ✳ 39th Ronaldo Otile 🇺🇬 312 ✳ 49th Titus …
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Mining multinational Glencore’s leadership must be held accountable for company’s corrupt behavior COMMENT | NJ AYUK | When U.S. energy company Enron made global headlines in the early 2000s for accounting and corporate fraud, attention was on the decision-makers behind the company’s actions. Ultimately, Enron executives Kenneth Lay, Jeffrey Skilling, …
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With climate models predicting a dramatic drop in the availability of coffee as temperatures rise, farmers are preparing themselves for an uncertain future | JACK DUTTON | On Mount Elgon, an extinct volcano on the Ugandan-Kenyan border, Kenneth Barigye grows Arabica beans on his coffee farms. He also grows them …
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Africa’s two wealthiest cities are in South Africa. Johannesburg is the wealthiest, with a total private wealth of US$239 billion, while Cape Town in second place has a total private wealth of US$131 billion Nairobi, Kenya | BIRD | Africa’s stock of private wealth is forecast to jump 38 per …
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Will full restitution of African tribal art ever be realized and if so, how prepared are African countries to receive such priceless treasures? Kampala, Uganda | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | The conversation on the return of African art, popularly known as tribal artefacts by art scholars, has once again resurfaced in …
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Lancet report says `hidden pandemic’ kept infection figures low | ANDRE VAN WYK | The global response to the Covid-19 epidemic has been nothing short of a massive failure, according to a study by The Lancet; the world’s highest-impact general medical journal. The peer-reviewed journal explains that millions of deaths …
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Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | Green campaigners from the Sub-Saharan African region on Saturday slammed the United States Climate Envoy John Kerry for giving lip service to the continent’s quest for a low-carbon and resilient future. Kerry, who addressed the 18th session of African Ministerial Conference on Environment (AMCEN) held on …
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Why new British PM needs to pay more attention to the continent NEW ANALYSIS | NICHOLAS WESTCOTT | New British Prime Minister Liz Truss has never said much in public about Africa. But, in my view, her administration must pay more attention to its relationship with Africa. African countries are …
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Brazzaville, Congo | Xinhua | A total of 524 confirmed cases of monkeypox, including 12 deaths, have been reported across 11 African countries since 2022, announced World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa Matshidiso Moeti Thursday. The majority of the confirmed cases are in Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Delegates attending the opening of the Africa Regional Food Safety conference in Kampala are pushing for formulation of uniform standards for food and agricultural products meant for export in the region and globally. Speaking at the meeting which will be on until the 13th …
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