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The government and higher education sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have succumbed to pressure from students and academics about avoiding further delays in the academic calendar, resuming classes despite Covid-19 continuing to spread.

Universities and colleges reopened on August 10, following more than four months of inactivity following a state of emergency declared by DRC President Félix Tshisekedi, crippling higher education institutions.…

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.…

Innovation is a key to success in the knitwear sector, but when a manufacturing hub combines centuries-old traditions of knitted product production with new technology and ideas, that is a winning combination. This is the strength of Japan’s Wakayama knitwear manufacturing centre, located south of Osaka, on the western coast of the Kii Peninsula.…

THE TURKISH clothing manufacturing sector says it has struck an accord with major brand buyers who they earlier this year accused of leaving them stranded during the start of the Covid-19 pandemic through contract cancellations, postponements, and payment delays.

This had left Turkish manufacturers with some USD3.5 billion in inventory and orders on hold, sparking action by trade bodies such as the Turkish Clothing Manufacturers’ Association (TGSD), which issued a letter of complaint in the International Textile Manufacturers Federation’s (ITMF) April newsletter.…

HONG Kong textile industry observers are confident that an announcement by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) that imported goods produced in Hong Kong must from September 25 be marked as ‘made-in-China’ will not significantly harm clothing traders and manufacturers operating from the territory.…

A NEW draft regulation released by the Indian government that would ban packaging in India containing non-dairy products like soya milk or coconut milk from being labelled as ‘milk’ has been welcomed by the dairy industry but opposed by plant-based milk companies.…

Taking up a new job where you are responsible for overseeing how a business operates in three countries during a global health pandemic is not a task many financial professionals would take on lightly. But that is what Busola Doregos, a Nigerian accountant working in Uganda has just done. …

With the fall out from the Covid-19 pandemic set to prompt an increase in already staggeringly high levels of digital identity fraud, financial institutions and businesses should develop more sophisticated tools to tackle the issue, researchers have warned. The fact the disease has hit when open banking applications are proliferating means fraudsters have more portals to target “particularly through identity fraud” attacks, suggests a July (2020) report from financial platform Finextra in collaboration with software providers Feedzai, headquartered in Portugal (https://www.finextra.com/finextra-downloads/research/documents/148/how-to-prevent-payments-fraud-amid-global-disruption.pdf).…

CANADIAN auto dealers and marques have been developing remote technologies enabling remote vehicle sales when Covid-19 social distancing restrictions impedes the physical operation of dealerships.

Even with these rules relaxing – with much of Ontario entering a ‘stage 3’ reopening from July 17, and dealerships fully open – physical distancing will still be required on premises.…

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has backed a detailed policy statement telling the European Commission to develop a robust post-Covid-19 recovery plan for the energy sector.

A comprehensive set of ‘council conclusions’ welcomed that the EU energy sector had operated securely so far throughout the pandemic, but added there was a “need to remain vigilant to ensure continued reliability of the energy systems in case of a prolonged crisis”.…