The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A six-member delegation from Mopani District Municipality, South Africa, has reached an agreement with Thiruvananthapuram district panchayat over co-operating in various schemes related to the agricultural sector. The team is in Thiruvananthapuram as part of a project initiated by the Commonwealth to encourage mutual exchange programmes among member nations. …
“Today I will start with a three-part sermon on Jesus was HIV-positive,” South African pastor Xola Skosana recently said in a Sunday church service. The words stunned the congregation in Cape Town’s Khayelitsha township who felt the pastor was portraying Jesus as sexually promiscuous. But Skosana told those gathered that …
New Delhi: Climate games have begun to heat up again ahead of the Cancun meet that starts on November 29. India has made two detailed proposals on its scrutiny and other developing country
The obesity epidemic is spreading to low-income and middle-income countries as a result of new dietary habits and sedentary ways of life, fuelling chronic diseases and premature mortality. In this report we present an assessment of public health strategies designed to tackle behavioural risk factors for chronic diseases that are …
The rhinoceros is under threat yet againCONTRARY to widespread belief in China and South-East Asia, the rhinoceros horn has no proven medicinal or aphrodisiac qualities. Its effect, some scientists say, is the same as chewing your fingernails. It is made of the same stuff, agglutinated hair. Yet rhino horn is …
Environment minister Jairam Ramesh has taken another bold step on the climate front by proposing the method by which India and other developing country actions will be scrutinized for their domestic and voluntary climate actions. In a note presented to the Major Economies Forum, Ramesh has laid down the formula …
About 10 days from today, the parties to the UN climate convention will have another bash at hammering out an agreement to avert what they all agree is one of the gravest threats that the world faces in the decades ahead. Is there any chance that they will do better …
Chennai: The State Government has assured South Africa of help in rural electrification and renewable energy. Harris Majeke, High Commissioner, South Africa, along with David Nkosi, First Secretary (Politicai), South African High Commission from New Delhi called on Arcot N. Veeraswami, Minister for Electricity, and requested for assistance and co-operation …
Urging the developed countries to fulfil the obligation of providing the developing nations with $30 billion, the BASIC group of countries, formed by Brazil, South Africa, India and China, today said this fast-start financing should be made available as soon as possible in a transparent manner. The fund was promised …
This paper describes the institutional and resource challenges and opportunities in getting different sectors in eThekwini Municipality (the local government responsible for planning and managing the city of Durban) to recognize and respond to their role in climate change adaptation.
This paper seeks to map the extent to which civil society actors champion environmental justice in an industrial risk society. It examines the role of civil society actors in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, in being able to perceive industrial risk and push local concerns in development processes. The paper draws on qualitative …
As part of its proposal to inspect manufacturing facilities in countries from where drugs are imported, the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has started discussions with the ministry to send drug inspectors to those countries to verify quality parameters. The immediate trigger seems to be the recent cancellation of …
Although quite a number of experiences with community supported agriculture (CSA) and box schemes in Europe and the United States have been documented, there are not so many examples from the South. Abalimi/Harvest of Hope is a special case even in the South, as it is a social enterprise that …
Leading mining group Vedanta Resources has been stripped of international safety awards amid claims that it won the prize without declaring that a chimney collapse at one of its sites had killed at least 40 workers last year, according to a media report. Awards to Vedanta have been withdrawn by …
The world buzzed with news that an antiretroviral gel can halve the incidence of HIV infection in women. But a quieter buzz could be heard at the International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010) in Vienna, where the gel results were unveiled.
GUWAHATI, June 30 (PTI) - After the initial jitters and bureaucratic delays, the Assam Forest department is now upbeat over the prospect of more translocation of the highly endangered one-horned rhinos among its forests once important tranquilisers are obtained. "Yes the drugs have finally arrived in New Delhi and our …
