The COVID-19 outbreak has had a devastating global effect in almost all sectors, including the publishing industry in Africa. Many African publishers are said to be overdependent on selling printed textbooks to governments, a one-track business

African Energy Week 2021 launches

Jun 23rd, 2021 6m 36s

The African Energy Chamber has announced the official launch of African Energy Week 2021, which will take place in Cape Town on November 9-12, 2021. The week is expected to showcase the first-ever African Energy Village, an interactive exhibiti

Status of IVD products around NHI

Jun 23rd, 2021 6m 18s

The Southern African Laboratory Diagnostics Association (Salda) is today hosting a seminar to showcase innovation and industry collaboration on the current status and future of the In Vitro Diagnostic or IVD market in the region, the continent

Youth Month – a Chat with Nhlamulo Bila

Jun 22nd, 2021 4m 15s

In commemoration of Youth Day today, we are joined on the line by one of the youth entrepreneurs in South Africa, Nhlamulo Bila. He is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bila ICT Solutions. Bila began his entrepreneurial journey in 2012

HIGHWAY-AFRICA

Jun 18th, 2021 5m 32s

The 2021 Highway Africa summit conference will be held virtually this year from June 21-23.The summit is said to be Africa's biggest conference for journalists, media scholars and NGOs working in the media. More from Director of Highway Africa,

CORMSA-REFUGEE

Jun 18th, 2021 5m 44s

Countries around the world will on Sunday commemorate World Refugee Day. World Refugee Day is an international day organised every year on 20 June by the United Nations. It is designed to celebrate and honour refugees from around the world. The

COVID- S SUDAN

Jun 18th, 2021 2m 54s

Now to South Sudan, where reports say, nearly half of the country's twelve million people have refused to be vaccinated against the Covid-19 infection because it causes infertility or blood clots. Channel Africa's James Shimanyula has more.

ZAMBIA-KAUNDA

Jun 18th, 2021 5m 35s

The death of Zambia's first President and founding father, Kenneth Kaunda, has not only saddened Zambians but the international community as well. Zambia's icon who has been described as "God's Gift To Zambia" by his former first cabinet Minist

ZIM-MOURNS

Jun 18th, 2021 4m 27s

Zimbabweans received the message of the death of the late Dr Kenneth Kaunda former Zambian President on Thursday with shock. They have hailed the late Dr Kaunda for his contribution to the country's liberation struggle. They spoke of the sacrif

LEGACY-KAUNDA

Jun 18th, 2021 6m 41s

Tributes continue to pour in for Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia's first President and one of the last of the generation of African leaders who fought colonialism, who died on Thursday aged 97. Kaunda was admitted to a military hospital in the capital,

BIRTH-REGISTER

Jun 18th, 2021 4m 53s

A year old campaign has reiterated its call for governments and relevant stakeholders in Africa to accelerate measures that have proven efficient to provide children with a legal identity. In June 2020, the African Union and UNICEF launched the

Youth science

Jun 18th, 2021 5m 28s

As South Africa commemorates Youth Month 2021 under the theme: "Growing youth employment for an inclusive and transformed society'", the big question is: Are young people ready and equipped to take up space in the data science field? According

Clean-energy

Jun 18th, 2021 1m 31s

Eswatini has become one of the first African states to move towards clean energy production with an aim to lower carbon emissions and reduce its energy dependence on neighbouring countries like South Africa and Mozambique. The project will crea

Level 3 reaction

Jun 18th, 2021 6m 7s

South Africans are back to level 3 of the nationwide lockdown in response to COVID-19. The move announced last night was prompted by the rise in infections which has seen the country entering a third wave of the virus. During his national addre

Democratic Republic of Congo

Jun 18th, 2021 2m 55s

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Union for the Congolese Nation (UNC) has expressed dissatisfaction and disappointment after conviction on appeal of Vital Kamerhe, the party's leader.Kamerhe, former Chief of staff of President Félix Tsh

Mozambique's government

Jun 16th, 2021 5m 57s

Mozambique's government should combine its military response to a spiraling insurgency in its gas-rich north with aid to disillusioned communities and dialogue with militants. This is according to a new report by the International Crisis Group.

Youth-inclusion

Jun 15th, 2021 4m 33s

Youth unemployment in South Africa is a serious problem which has worsened under the COVID-19 pandemic. According to data published by Statistics South Africa the official unemployment rate among youth was 46% in the first quarter of 2021. It i

Kaunda-hospital

Jun 15th, 2021 1m

Zambia's former President Kenneth Kaunda is receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness at a military hospital in the capital Lusaka. The 97-year-old ruled Zambia from 1964, when the country won its independence from Britain, until 1991. He

WFP- Mozambique

Jun 15th, 2021 4m 10s

The World Food Program, promises to increase humanitarian assistance to more people in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado Province. The guarantee was given by David Baesley, Executive Director of the United Nations agency, at the end of his meeting with

Darfur-governor

Jun 15th, 2021 4m 15s

For the first time in eighteen years, Sudan's troubled region of Darfur, will be under the governorship of a former rebel leader, Mini Arko Minawi, appointed by the Khartoum Transitional Government, following a comprehensive peace agreement he

Vaccine cold

Jun 15th, 2021 4m 13s

One of the many challenges of getting the COVID-19 jab involves the cold chain, a system of storing and transporting vaccines at recommended temperatures from the point of manufacture to the point of use. The cold chain challenge is one that So

J&J vaccines

Jun 15th, 2021 4m 18s

The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority has announced that it would not release the Johnson & Johnson vaccine following contamination concerns at one of the US drug maker's sites. The news marks a major setback in the country's v

Camp-Kenya

Jun 15th, 2021 3m 36s

Hundreds of Lamu residents on the Kenyan coast have benefitted from a free medical camp organized by Kenya Ports Authority in partnership with Lamu County Public health. This is part of the authority's plan to give back to society and provide e

COSATU-vaccine

Jun 15th, 2021 4m 23s

The Congress of South African Trade Unions, (COSATU), has warned that employers, who force employees to be vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus, will be taken to court. The country is faced with an increased number of corona virus infection ca

MALAWI-DIPLOMATS

Jun 14th, 2021 3m 18s

Malawi says several of its diplomats have been expelled from South Africa after they were found guilty of peddling duty-free alcohol. Malawi's foreign affairs ministry in Lilongwe announced on Friday that South Africa had given the diplomats