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EVERY GOOD INTERVENTION PLAN needs realistic implementation guidelines, timelines, elaborate description of actors, clear pathways for funding, accountability criteria and unambiguous details on impacts, all of which could be put in proper contexts by outlining the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) mechanisms, key performance indicators (KPIs) and comprehensive impact assessment criteria. Activities that have led the […]

SEISMIC CHANGES ARE taking place in the DR Congo right now. These changes take various forms – of political, social, economic and environmental significance. Infrequent, but high impact, climate event is taking a toll on DR Congo right now. Just days ago, part of Goma, a major Eastern city in the country adjacent to the […]

CLIMATE CHANGE may be interpreted by some as disadvantageous to the world economy. While that view holds some validity, it is not the concern here now. Beneath the frenzied campaigns to halt climate-endangering human activities – much of which have also led to stupendous rise in global wealth and well-being, and have provoked divisive politics […]

CHANCES THAT environmental safety challenges in Africa could get more complicated are showing troubling signs. Governance dysfunction is a major overarching cause for concern in many countries within the continent. While despotic national leaders – and there are many of them – show no signs of stepping down or tolerating political and economic reforms, new […]

WEAKNESSES THAT NEED to be overcome by Africa in the quest for renewable energy are many and varied. Some are institutional, some historical and systemic, while some are political. But they are all interwoven. Untangling them may therefore not be altogether easy, as solving one aspect of the problem in isolation may create a vacuum […]

ENVIRONMENTAL COST OF green energy will very likely weigh heavily on Africa in the emerging dispensation new of global energy economy. The energy transition from fossil fuel sources to the ‘green’ or ‘renewable’ sources may not give Africa any significant relief or positive prognosis in terms of the impact on the environment. It may even […]

WHOEVER THINKS AFRICA is anywhere near total emancipation on the political, social and economic fronts could be daydreaming, particularly based on the various events and emerging issues around and within the continent. Just a few days ago, a long-serving President Idriss Deby of Chad Republic died of injuries he sustained from the frontline in the […]

RECENTLY, the World Health Organisation (WHO), for the first time, acted boldly against popular sentiments by announcing its opposition to the clamour for vaccination passports for travellers. It attributed its official position to the doubt over whether inoculation prevents transmission of the virus, citing also fairness concerns. The WHO had, from the very outset acted […]

GLOBAL LOGISTICS BUSINESS has come to define commerce and supply chains in many different ways. For goods that can only realistically transported by seas and waterways, seafaring has become indispensable in global logistics, handling bulky, heavy, liquid, solid and gaseous goods across the globe in huge quantities. Efficiency of supply chains through this method of […]

GLOBAL LOGISTICS BUSINESS has come to define commerce and supply chains in many different ways. For goods that can only realistically transported by seas and waterways, seafaring has become indispensable in global logistics, handling bulky, heavy, liquid, solid and gaseous goods across the globe in huge quantities. Efficiency of supply chains through this method of […]