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Share Dr Sizo Nkala, a postdoctoral research Fellow at the Centre for Africa-China Studies (CACS) at the University of Johannesburg, recently penned an opinion article published on the Daily Maverick, 29 March 2021. On a continent dominated by autocratic regimes run by rapacious cronies and cartels who thrive on the status quo, the African Continental Free Trade Agreement is more likely to be honoured in the breach. The trade pact is everything these regimes so passionately and violently despis...

Kuwaiti students pay the highest in the world for their education Kuwaiti students pay the highest annual fees for public schools in the world, according to the report, which stated that “the annual cost of a Kuwaiti student in government schools is the largest in the world, reaching KD4,693 in kindergartens, KD3,280 in primary school, KD3,426 in the intermediate level, and KD3,651 in secondary school, Al Rai daily reported. Included in the report by the Public Authority for Combating Corrupt...

Share: March 03, 2021 The Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) in Africa have the potential to contribute significantly to GDP and boost socio-economic development by providing diverse employment opportunities for Africans if the adequate amount of resources are allocated to the sector. In countries and regions where investments have been made in CCI’s, economies have witnessed significant earnings. For example, in the USA, the creative sector contributes US$ 800 billion per annum and glob...

Can the US and China Cooperate in Africa? Competition aside, Washington and Beijing have many shared interests on the African continent, from security to economics to public health. By February 23, 2021 Advertisement In U.S. President Joe Biden’s first foreign policy speech, he made clear that his administration views China as its most significant national security challenge. However, in the same speech Biden indicated that despite an increase in geopolitical tensio...

- Ms. Amal Mahmoud Amar Khalifa (Egypt). - Mr. Hocine Ait Chalal (Algeria). The Advisory Board on Corruption is an organ of the African Union tasked with the unique responsibility to advice on and address corruption and related themes on the continent. The Board is also mandated to rally for the ratification and implementation by member states, the African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption (AUCPCC). The Convention was adopted in Maputo, Mozambique on 11 July 2003 and came ...

The Federal Government has said that the Third Mainland Bridge will be reopened ahead of schedule at midnight of January 31.

Messenger KUWAIT CITY, Feb 1, (KUNA): The Ministry of Information referred three profile cases related to a suspicion of violation to public funds to the Public Authority for Combating Corruption (Nazaha), to take the necessary measures in their regard. The Ministry’s spokeswoman Anwar Murad revealed in a press statement, that ongoing coordination and cooperation with the regulatory authorities to monitor any violations or infringements to public funds. Murad emphasized that the ministry is ...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Senate President Dr Ahmad Lawan, and Speaker of House of Representatives Mr Femi |

Sodiq OyelekeSocio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has urged the Senate President Dr Ahmad Lawan, and Speaker of House of Representa...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Senate President Dr Ahmad Lawan, and Speaker of House of Representatives Mr Femi Gbajabiamila to “use their good offices to urgently probe and refer to appropriate anti-corruption agencies allegations that N4.4 billion of public money budgeted for the National Assembly is missing, misappropriated, diverted or stolen, as documented in three audited reports by the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation.”