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WHO closely monitors Covid variant amid mutation concerns

By Katja Hamilton 15 Aug 2023

Emerging Covid-19 variant spreads across UK amidst rising cases

Emerging Covid-19 variant spreads across UK amidst rising cases

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Professor Cyril Nhlanhla Mbatha, director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) at Rhodes University

Digital small-scale models could help SA's pandemic-stricken farmers

Professor Cyril Nhlanhla Mbatha 17 Aug 2020

Congolese artist Chris Shongo paints on the outside wall of the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Kinshasa on June 18, 2020.

Covid-19 shows that the DRC must invest in a health research industry

Dacquin M. Kasumba 14 Aug 2020

1 in 4 consumers tried a new brand during pandemic - global report

12 Aug 2020

Andrew Stein on how Game is rediscovering its retail mojo

Andrew Stein on how Game is rediscovering its retail mojo

Lauren Hartzenberg 31 Jul 2020

Credit: Polina via Pexels

Food giants appointing teams to focus on plant-based products

30 Jul 2020

Scan Display built the largest Covid-19 hospital in Africa

Scan Display built the largest Covid-19 hospital in Africa

Scan Display 30 Jul 2020

IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva and World Bank group president David Malpass have offered debt relief to developing countries.

Why African countries are reluctant to take up Covid-19 debt relief

Misheck Mutize 30 Jul 2020

A nurse participates in the drill to test their system capabilities for the Covid-19 coronavirus mass patients influx at the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi.

Covid-19 exposes weaknesses in Kenya's healthcare system. And what can be done

Abdu Mohiddin & Marleen Temmerman 29 Jul 2020

Coronavirus has turned retail therapy into retail anxiety - keeping customers calm will be key to carrying on

Coronavirus has turned retail therapy into retail anxiety - keeping customers calm will be key to carrying on

Jessica Vredenburg and Megan Phillips 24 Jul 2020

Researchers are central to any country’s science preparedness, especially in the face of pandemics.
Menna Hossam/picture alliance via Getty Images

Africa's research capacity is growing. That's good news for pandemic response efforts

Sam Kinyanjui & Sharon Fonn 24 Jul 2020

Fraym launches localised tool mapping populations vulnerable to food insecurity

Fraym launches localised tool mapping populations vulnerable to food insecurity

23 Jul 2020

How Asia's clothing factories switched to making PPE - but sweatshop problems live on

How Asia's clothing factories switched to making PPE - but sweatshop problems live on

Alessandra Mezzadri and Kanchana N Ruwanpura 23 Jul 2020

Image credit: Retha Ferguson from Pexels

Covid-19 impact on consumption patterns in Africa's key markets

23 Jul 2020

C40 Cities launches Mayors Agenda for a Green and Just Recovery post-Covid-19

C40 Cities launches Mayors Agenda for a Green and Just Recovery post-Covid-19

23 Jul 2020

A laboratory technician prepares a sample at the government-run Ifakara Health Institute north of Tanzanian capital Dar es Salaam. PHOTO Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images

Tanzania study shows critical need to address infection control in health facilities

Jessica JC King 22 Jul 2020

Amazon's Paul Misener on the link between innovation and diversity

Amazon's Paul Misener on the link between innovation and diversity

Lauren Hartzenberg 21 Jul 2020

Richard Neal, MD, Sovereign Trust

SA businesses look offshore to ease Covid-19 pain

Richard Neal 21 Jul 2020

Antibacterial activewear? The claim is just as absurd as it sounds

Antibacterial activewear? The claim is just as absurd as it sounds

Catherine Burke 20 Jul 2020

IRF awards grant to offset Covid-19 impact, protect rhinos in Southern Africa

IRF awards grant to offset Covid-19 impact, protect rhinos in Southern Africa

15 Jul 2020

The Thusong Multipurpose Center in Khayelitsha which will serve as a Covid-19 site in Cape Town, South Africa. Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images

Students play an integral role in healthcare delivery: findings from South Africa

Ian Couper & Jana Müller 9 Jul 2020

Preventing Covid-19 from becoming a hunger crisis in Africa

Preventing Covid-19 from becoming a hunger crisis in Africa

Mimi Alemayehou 6 Jul 2020

Customer experience will help retailers overcome the financial hit from coronavirus

Customer experience will help retailers overcome the financial hit from coronavirus

Frederic Dimanche 6 Jul 2020

Safeguarding our communities through the Covid-19 pandemic

Safeguarding our communities through the Covid-19 pandemic

Olga Arara-Kimani 6 Jul 2020

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Rwanda's Covid-19 pool testing: a savvy option where there's low viral prevalence

Leon Mutesa 3 Jul 2020

2 SA short films selected in African Women in the Time of Covid-19 Short Film Competition

2 SA short films selected in African Women in the Time of Covid-19 Short Film Competition

2 Jul 2020

A researcher holds a Covid-19 mRNA vaccine at the National Primate Research Center of Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. Chaiwat Subprasom/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Africa waited for solutions to past health crises: will it be different for Covid-19?

Hailay Gesesew 2 Jul 2020

Covid-19, Africa's conservation and trophy hunting dilemma

Covid-19, Africa's conservation and trophy hunting dilemma

Duan Biggs, Alexander Richard Braczkowski, Alta De Vos, Hayley Clements 30 Jun 2020

Mr Price reveals impact of SA lockdown and its plans to exit Nigeria

Mr Price reveals impact of SA lockdown and its plans to exit Nigeria

29 Jun 2020

SA leads Africa's maize trade during Covid-19

SA leads Africa's maize trade during Covid-19

Casey Delport 29 Jun 2020

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Letlhogonolo Thobejane

#WomensMonth: KFC's Nolo Thobejane on achieving QSR success in Africa

Lauren Hartzenberg 31 Aug 2020

Professor Cyril Nhlanhla Mbatha, director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) at Rhodes University

Digital small-scale models could help SA's pandemic-stricken farmers

Professor Cyril Nhlanhla Mbatha 17 Aug 2020

Congolese artist Chris Shongo paints on the outside wall of the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Kinshasa on June 18, 2020.

Covid-19 shows that the DRC must invest in a health research industry

Dacquin M. Kasumba 14 Aug 2020

1 in 4 consumers tried a new brand during pandemic - global report

12 Aug 2020

Andrew Stein on how Game is rediscovering its retail mojo

Andrew Stein on how Game is rediscovering its retail mojo

Lauren Hartzenberg 31 Jul 2020

Credit: Polina via Pexels

Food giants appointing teams to focus on plant-based products

30 Jul 2020

Scan Display built the largest Covid-19 hospital in Africa

Scan Display built the largest Covid-19 hospital in Africa

Scan Display 30 Jul 2020

IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva and World Bank group president David Malpass have offered debt relief to developing countries.

Why African countries are reluctant to take up Covid-19 debt relief

Misheck Mutize 30 Jul 2020

A nurse participates in the drill to test their system capabilities for the Covid-19 coronavirus mass patients influx at the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi.

Covid-19 exposes weaknesses in Kenya's healthcare system. And what can be done

Abdu Mohiddin & Marleen Temmerman 29 Jul 2020

Coronavirus has turned retail therapy into retail anxiety - keeping customers calm will be key to carrying on

Coronavirus has turned retail therapy into retail anxiety - keeping customers calm will be key to carrying on

Jessica Vredenburg and Megan Phillips 24 Jul 2020

Researchers are central to any country’s science preparedness, especially in the face of pandemics.
Menna Hossam/picture alliance via Getty Images

Africa's research capacity is growing. That's good news for pandemic response efforts

Sam Kinyanjui & Sharon Fonn 24 Jul 2020

Fraym launches localised tool mapping populations vulnerable to food insecurity

Fraym launches localised tool mapping populations vulnerable to food insecurity

23 Jul 2020

How Asia's clothing factories switched to making PPE - but sweatshop problems live on

How Asia's clothing factories switched to making PPE - but sweatshop problems live on

Alessandra Mezzadri and Kanchana N Ruwanpura 23 Jul 2020

Image credit: Retha Ferguson from Pexels

Covid-19 impact on consumption patterns in Africa's key markets

23 Jul 2020

C40 Cities launches Mayors Agenda for a Green and Just Recovery post-Covid-19

C40 Cities launches Mayors Agenda for a Green and Just Recovery post-Covid-19

23 Jul 2020

A laboratory technician prepares a sample at the government-run Ifakara Health Institute north of Tanzanian capital Dar es Salaam. PHOTO Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images

Tanzania study shows critical need to address infection control in health facilities

Jessica JC King 22 Jul 2020

Amazon's Paul Misener on the link between innovation and diversity

Amazon's Paul Misener on the link between innovation and diversity

Lauren Hartzenberg 21 Jul 2020

Richard Neal, MD, Sovereign Trust

SA businesses look offshore to ease Covid-19 pain

Richard Neal 21 Jul 2020

Antibacterial activewear? The claim is just as absurd as it sounds

Antibacterial activewear? The claim is just as absurd as it sounds

Catherine Burke 20 Jul 2020

IRF awards grant to offset Covid-19 impact, protect rhinos in Southern Africa

IRF awards grant to offset Covid-19 impact, protect rhinos in Southern Africa

15 Jul 2020

The Thusong Multipurpose Center in Khayelitsha which will serve as a Covid-19 site in Cape Town, South Africa. Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images

Students play an integral role in healthcare delivery: findings from South Africa

Ian Couper & Jana Müller 9 Jul 2020

Preventing Covid-19 from becoming a hunger crisis in Africa

Preventing Covid-19 from becoming a hunger crisis in Africa

Mimi Alemayehou 6 Jul 2020

Customer experience will help retailers overcome the financial hit from coronavirus

Customer experience will help retailers overcome the financial hit from coronavirus

Frederic Dimanche 6 Jul 2020

Safeguarding our communities through the Covid-19 pandemic

Safeguarding our communities through the Covid-19 pandemic

Olga Arara-Kimani 6 Jul 2020

alexandersr/shutterstock

Rwanda's Covid-19 pool testing: a savvy option where there's low viral prevalence

Leon Mutesa 3 Jul 2020

2 SA short films selected in African Women in the Time of Covid-19 Short Film Competition

2 SA short films selected in African Women in the Time of Covid-19 Short Film Competition

2 Jul 2020

A researcher holds a Covid-19 mRNA vaccine at the National Primate Research Center of Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. Chaiwat Subprasom/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Africa waited for solutions to past health crises: will it be different for Covid-19?

Hailay Gesesew 2 Jul 2020

Covid-19, Africa's conservation and trophy hunting dilemma

Covid-19, Africa's conservation and trophy hunting dilemma

Duan Biggs, Alexander Richard Braczkowski, Alta De Vos, Hayley Clements 30 Jun 2020

Mr Price reveals impact of SA lockdown and its plans to exit Nigeria

Mr Price reveals impact of SA lockdown and its plans to exit Nigeria

29 Jun 2020

SA leads Africa's maize trade during Covid-19

SA leads Africa's maize trade during Covid-19

Casey Delport 29 Jun 2020

In praise of the office: let's learn from Covid-19 and make the traditional workplace better

In praise of the office: let's learn from Covid-19 and make the traditional workplace better

Geoff Plimmer, Diep Nguyen, Esme Franken, Stephen Teo 29 Jun 2020

African logistics, warehousing sector set to overcome pandemic storm

African logistics, warehousing sector set to overcome pandemic storm

25 Jun 2020

Ramaphosa opens infrastructure symposium, laying path for SA beyond Covid-19

Ramaphosa opens infrastructure symposium, laying path for SA beyond Covid-19

24 Jun 2020

Put Mauritius top of your post-Covid-19 travel list: Touring the Aubergine Garden at LUX* Belle Mare

Put Mauritius top of your post-Covid-19 travel list: Touring the Aubergine Garden at LUX* Belle Mare

Debbie Hathway 23 Jun 2020

Kibali Mine is fully automated. Image: Barrick Gold Corporation

Covid is forcing the mining sector to adopt technology

23 Jun 2020

A child receives a vaccine against Ebola from a nurse in Goma on August 7, 2019. AUGUSTIN WAMENYA/AFP via Getty Images

The coping mechanisms the DRC is putting in place as it faces Ebola, measles and Covid-19

Yap Boum 23 Jun 2020

#ACACaresCovid19: Liquidity and the economics of advertising

#ACACaresCovid19: Liquidity and the economics of advertising

23 Jun 2020

The Nigerian Naira has been under a lot pressure lately
Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images

Nigeria's post-Covid-19 recovery plan has some merit. But it misses the mark

Tolu Olarewaju 22 Jun 2020

The death of the open-plan office? Not quite, but a revolution is in the air

The death of the open-plan office? Not quite, but a revolution is in the air

Andrew Wallace 22 Jun 2020

Coca-Cola Africa commits $17m in response to Covid-19

Coca-Cola Africa commits $17m in response to Covid-19

19 Jun 2020