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Nairobi Fashion Week 2025 puts regenerative fashion in the spotlight

Nairobi Fashion Week 2025 puts regenerative fashion in the spotlight

Laurent Muschel, HERA Director General, and Jean Kaseya, Africa CDC Director General, stand near mpox vaccines as first batches arrive at N'Djili International Airport in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, 5 September 2024. Reuters/Justin Makangara/File Photo

Africa's top health official presses US to resume health aid

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AltSchool Africa and Binance launch scholarships to nurture digital skills in 500 Africans

AltSchool Africa and Binance launch scholarships to nurture digital skills in 500 Africans

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The case for a net zero emissions economy

The case for a net zero emissions economy

Brett Chrystal 2 Oct 2019

Outgoing JSE CEO Nicky Newton-King in conversation with Tom Scholtz, Gartner VP analyst in a special guest keynote session at Garner Symposium 2019.

#GartnerSYM: Outgoing JSE CEO's tech and CSR insights for the future

Leigh Andrews 30 Sep 2019

Top ratings for Biz Rate Card 2019

Top ratings for Biz Rate Card 2019

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Food systems development needs a new trajectory - FAO director-general

Food systems development needs a new trajectory - FAO director-general

27 Sep 2019

FAO director-general calls on food industry to do more to support healthy foods

FAO director-general calls on food industry to do more to support healthy foods

26 Sep 2019

The Lalela Scarf: luxury fashion for a cause

The Lalela Scarf: luxury fashion for a cause

25 Sep 2019

How Vollar is serving brands certainty with their CSI

How Vollar is serving brands certainty with their CSI

Sindy Peters 25 Sep 2019

The 2019 Care Awards jury. Image credit: Act Responsible.

Act Responsible announces 2019 Care Awards jury

23 Sep 2019

Rhino poaching numbers decrease

Rhino poaching numbers decrease

23 Sep 2019

Sergio Fernandez de Cordova, chairperson of the Summit and PVBLIC Foundation, and Kevin Swanepoel, The One Club CEO.

The One Club announces Sustainable Development Pencil at SDG Media Summit 2019

23 Sep 2019

DStv partnership in Mozambique brings solar power to rural areas

DStv partnership in Mozambique brings solar power to rural areas

20 Sep 2019

Training is necessary to equip health workers to deal with climate change risks. EPA

Ghana's health system isn't quite ready for climate change realities

Lucia Hussey 20 Sep 2019

Circular cities of the world: What can green infrastructure do?

Circular cities of the world: What can green infrastructure do?

Daniel Johnson 19 Sep 2019

Sarika Modi, MD of Triple Eight Agency, at the Gender Mainstreaming Awards.

#FairnessFirst: Triple Eight on not just surviving but thriving as an all-female agency

Leigh Andrews 16 Sep 2019

Could fungi save the fashion world?

Could fungi save the fashion world?

Sam Vettese and Ian Singleton 13 Sep 2019

Slum residents were said to do less exercise because of cheap motorcycle taxis. Boris Golovnev/Shutterstock

Bad habits drive health risks among Kenya's urban poor

Frederick Wekesah 13 Sep 2019

The Department of Mineral Resources has given the go-ahead for Italian group Eni to conduct drilling off the coast of KwaZulu-Natal. Photo: Eni (fair use)

Controversial KZN drilling project gets go-ahead

13 Sep 2019

#Newsmaker: How Georgie Badiel-Liberty is bringing sub-Saharan Africa's water scarcity to the forefront

#Newsmaker: How Georgie Badiel-Liberty is bringing sub-Saharan Africa's water scarcity to the forefront

Juanita Pienaar 12 Sep 2019

Mikah Saunders and her dad, Deon, in Red Cross Children's Hospital's new haemotology-oncology unit.

Red Cross upgrade changes the lives of young cancer warriors

12 Sep 2019

Perdekraal East Wind Farm erects first turbine using local team

Perdekraal East Wind Farm erects first turbine using local team

11 Sep 2019

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Wilderness Safaris Botswana launches biomonitoring programme

11 Sep 2019

Separated display screens (TVs) at the site. Alison Stowell

How potential of massive e-waste dump in Ghana can be harnessed

Alison Stowell 10 Sep 2019

Global Change Award 2020: Submit your sustainable fashion innovation

Global Change Award 2020: Submit your sustainable fashion innovation

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Green roofs, like this one in Sao Paulo, Brazil, have many benefits. Leonardo Ikeda/Shutterstock

How buildings in Johannesburg could benefit from green roofs

Anne Fitchett 9 Sep 2019

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Impacts of climate change on food security not evenly distributed, conference hears

5 Sep 2019

Nestlé announces winners of sub-Saharan Africa innovation challenge

Nestlé announces winners of sub-Saharan Africa innovation challenge

4 Sep 2019

Mozambique successfully convicts, sentences 2 rhino poachers

Mozambique successfully convicts, sentences 2 rhino poachers

3 Sep 2019

How young Africans are going green in business

How young Africans are going green in business

Franck Kuwonu 3 Sep 2019

Central banks and other financial sector regulators have not always paid adequate attention to the sector’s impact on the environment. Shutterstock

Central banks are waking up to climate change dangers. It's about time

Danny Bradlow 2 Sep 2019

Ethiopia's future is tied to water - a vital yet threatened resource in a changing climate

Ethiopia's future is tied to water - a vital yet threatened resource in a changing climate

Meron Teferi Taye and Ellen Dyer 2 Sep 2019