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2merkato provides business information for investors, suppliers, buyers, traders who are engaged or want to engage in business activities in Ethiopia.

At a webinar, TechCabal sought to find solutions to the current state of intra-continental trade in Africa.

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen has warned that Omicron could be the dominant Covid-19 variant in Europe by mid-January.

Gqeberha is the new name for Port Elizabeth, or  Ibayi in the vernacular which means “The Bay”. Port Elizabeth had to be changed because it was used to commemorate the death of a colonial governor’s beloved wife who died there in the early 1800s. And, of course,  Ibayi had to go too presumably because Jeff Bezos named his internet business, eBay. Giving this old colonial settlement established by English pioneers an  isiXhosa name when the nearest speakers of the language lived kilometres away, is just another one of the ironies of history. Re-naming towns and cities is not a new...

Dr Dixon Chibanda (L) says it is vital to protect those in frontline health services As warnings of a “moral catastrophe” over the availability of coronavirus vaccines in poorer countries grow, Zimbabwean psychiatrist Dr Dixon Chibanda describes how it would help him and the special team of grandmothers he works with. It has been five weeks since I contracted Covid-19, even though I was doing everything not to get it: masking, sanitising and distancing. The sense of helplessness associated with not being able to breathe as I watched my oxygen saturation fluctuating was profound, even for ...