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ETHIOPIA POSED TO REOPEN PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES NATIONWIDE, ENDING COVID-19 LOCKDOWN
The Ethiopian government is preparing to re-open the country’s 45 public universities as it ends a Covid-19 lockdown that began in March, despite the disease continuing to expand nationwide along with growing concerns about social discord and violence.
Ethiopia has so far recorded 90.490 Covid-19 cases (as of Wednesday, October 21), the largest number of Covid-19 cases in east Africa.…
QUANTUM COMPUTING RESEARCH DEVELOPING ACROSS AFRICA, WITH SOUTH AFRICAN WORK UNDERPINNING PROGRESS
The cutting edge IT field of quantum computing is developing across Africa, with South Africa considered the hub, in part through an IBM centre in Johannesburg that enables academics throughout the continent to freely access its quantum computer network, based in the USA, through the cloud.…
SOMALILAND EXPANDS TERTIARY EDUCATION SECTOR, BUT LACK OF INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION OF SELF-DECLARED STATE IMPEDES PROGRESS
Somaliland’s higher education capacity may have been growing, but a lack of financial and human resources and the continued lack of international recognition of its country’s self-declared independent status continue to impede progress, say local education leaders.
Ahmed Musa, director-general at the ministry of higher education of the Republic of Somaliland, said infrastructure weaknesses and a shortage of qualified teaching and non-teaching staff were to blame.…
KENYA’S GROWING MIDDLE CLASS IS EXPANDING DAIRY MARKET WITHIN EAST AFRICA’S ECONOMIC POWERHOUSE
IT is fair to say that cheese and other processed dairy products have not traditionally played a key role in tickling the Kenyan collective palate, but that was yesterday. Now, as the country, east Africa’s economic dynamo, grows a middle class interested in consumer consumption, there has been exponential growing demand for dairy products of all kinds.…
COVID-91 HALTS EFFORTS BY SOUTH SUDAN HIGHER EDUCATION SECTOR TO REBUILD AFTER PEACE AGREEMENT ENDED CIVIL WAR
The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted efforts by South Sudan tertiary education leaders and ministers within the newly formed South Sudan unity government to restore the country’s universities, many of which were devastated by the years of civil war that may now have ended.…
ETHIOPIA’S TEXTILE AND CLOTHING SECTOR MUST GET SMARTER WITH INVESTMENT TO THRIVE IN THE LONG TERM SAYS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION
ETHIOPIA’S clothing and textile sector needs to invest in creating a reliable quality domestic supply chain to grow and meet government targets for expanding export sales, a senior official at the Ethiopian Textile and Garment Association (ETGAMA) has told just-style.
Sintayehu Teshome, a textile and garment engineer working for this organisation representing more than 120 medium and large companies said that despite government incentives such as the construction of industrial parks and generous investment lease policies, as well as Ethiopia’s low labour costs, the sector still has many challenges to overcome to fulfill its potential.…
AFRICA’S CIVIL AVIATION SECTOR GROWS, BUT FACES CHALLENGES TO BUILD SUSTAINABLE REGIONAL MARKET
AFRICA is commonly hailed as the world’s next big focus of economic growth, but for the civil aviation industry, this prospect will require significant investment in new intra-African routes and related airport and ATC infrastructure. It will also require governments to remove immigration barriers preventing African air travellers flying to other countries on their home continent.…
KENYA STARTS GM COTTON PRODUCTION THIS YEAR IN BID TO KICKSTART ITS UNDERPERFORMING TEXTILE MANUFACTURING SECTOR
Kenya will start to grow genetically modified cotton this year, becoming the first country to do so in Eastern Africa. The move is significant as it is likely to inspire other counties in the region start to grow Bt cotton hybrids that are resistant to African bollworm and other pests.…
AFRICAN GARMENT MAKERS SEEK TIGHTER CONTINENTAL INTEGRATION OF THEIR SUPPLY CHAINS, EXPO PARTICIPANTS SAY
African garment and textile manufacturers are trying to create more synergy to better integrate the supply chain within the continent, but North African producers still dominate, and are expanding capacity, particularly in Egypt, say participants at a major regional industry meeting.…
NATURAL AFRICAN LOOKS INCREASE IN PREDOMINANCE AS SUB-SAHARAN BEAUTY MARKETS BECOME MORE SOPHISTICATED
Beauty markets in sub-Saharan Africa are becoming more sophisticated, and with this comes an increasing desire by consumers to use cosmetics that better match their own skin and hair characteristics, rather than utilising products that of more universal appeal.
Nigeria’s personal care product industry continues to grow, and given its population is the largest in Africa – now estimated by the United Nations at 200 million – this market inevitably has the most potential in the continent.…