Author: Helmut Mahongo
AU Launches Another Continental Education Strategy
By: Helmut Mahongo Last Friday, the African Union Commission (AUC) and other stakeholders officially launched another Continental Education Strategy for Africa under the Emergencies and Resilience (EiE) Cluster through its Department of Education, Science, Technology and Innovation (ESTI). The…
New Continental Credit Rating Promises to Expand African Financial Market
By: Helmut Mahongo The newly established Africa Credit Rating Agency (AfCRA) will pioneer the expansion of financial markets in Africa. Africa’s financial market is one of the least advanced and least developed globally, with the continent dominated by just…
Traditional Healers Still Waiting on Their Bill Since 2014 Bil
By: Helmut Mahongo While BRICS leaders endorsed traditional medicine at a summit in New Delhi this week, Namibia’s Traditional Healers’ Practitioners Bill remains gathering dust in Parliament, 12 years after it was first tabled. The 18th BRICS…
African Youth Embracing Their Native Languages in the Creative Industry
By: Helmut Mahongo Masoyinbo, meaning “Do not speak English” in Yoruba, is the title of a television game show in Nigeria’s commercial centre of Lagos. The game show is centred on one main rule: if you speak English, you…
Illegal Industrial Scale Drug Lab Suspects Appear in Court
By: Helmut Mahongo The 13 suspects of a multimillion-rand industrial-scale methamphetamine laboratory that operated in the northwest of Johannesburg appeared in court yesterday. The suspects were arrested in May after residents reported strong chemical odours coming from an isolated…
Capital Punishment for Intentional Forest Fires in Algeria
By: Helmut Mahongo President Abdelmadjid Tebboune of Algeria has issued a directive instructing the justice minister to submit an amendment to the penal code by September 15, introducing capital punishment for anyone convicted of intentionally setting fire to forested…
Sudan’s Meroë Pyramids Threatened By Ongoing Civil War
By: Helmut Mahongo The ongoing civil war in Sudan is threatening the Meroë pyramids, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The conflict that broke out in 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support…
SADC Industrial Week Recap: Regional Ambition Needs Political Commitment and Implementation
By: Helmut Mahongo The Southern African Development Community (SADC) recently held its 9th Industrialisation Week in Durban, South Africa, from the 27th to the 31st of July. The event was convened under the theme: “Resilient, Sustainable and…
Resources Matter, so Does Deployment Knowhow – ECA
By: Helmut Mahogo General and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, Claver Gatete, called for domestic resource mobilisation as the foundation of Africa’s economic transformation. Gatete said this as he addressed the 49th Ordinary Session of the…
ECOWAS To Launch a Single Currency By 2027
By: Helmut Mahongo The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has reaffirmed plans to launch a single currency dubbed the ECO by next year. The union announced this after its 69th ECOWAS summit of Heads of State…