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INTRODUCTION 

With the textile industry under pressure from consumers, regulators and standards to become more sustainable, companies are looking at all aspects of the supply chain – including upstream to fibre production. Digitalisation has a key role to play here, especially in supplier countries where the use of such technology is weak – such as in Africa.…

While the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a shadow of its former self in the Middle East, it has spawned global affiliates and is still very much in business, posing ongoing terrorist financing threats.

At the peak of its power as a self-declared Islamic Caliphate in 2015, ISIS controlled around a third of Syria’s territory and 40%of Iraq, with some 7.7 million people under its rule.…

The sale and consumption of halal products, including food and beauty products, in Mozambique are growing, the president of the Halal Commission of Mozambique (Comissão Halal de Moçambique – https://halalmoz.com/) has told Salaam Gateway.

Maulana Ibraimo Issa said Mozambique halal traders and manufacturers were profiting from a global market expected by Germany statistics company Statista to grow from USD1.4 trillion in 2017 to around USD2.6 trillion by 2024, (https://www.statista.com/topics/4428/global-halal-market/#topicHeader__wrapper).…

Cigar sellers are exploring the potential offered by southern Africa’s two Portuguese-speaking countries, Angola and Mozambique, not only as sustainable growth markets, but also as African cigar production centres. Both countries have tobacco production and growing traditions that date back well into the Portuguese colonial times that ended with independence in 1975.…

Transparency International has flagged nine countries, including two European Union (EU) member states – Austria and Slovenia – where it says in a February 3 blog (1) societies need to be on “particularly high alert” for corruption, highlighting declining efforts to fight graft.…

The Angolan government has been pushing ahead with to expand the countries higher education services – with initiatives progressing this year in its public and private wings. A new private university was inaugurated in October, with the government planning to build a new university hospital this year and major expansions being completed in two public universities.…

Madagascar’s textile and clothing sector is recovering from the heavy toll taken by the Covid-19 pandemic, initially causing the loss of 11,384 jobs according to government figures released in September 2020, reflecting a steep loss in output. According to Madagascar business association the Groupement des Entreprises Franches et Partenaires, this initially resulted in a drop of 47% in apparel turnover in an island nation whose economy was already under pressure before being hit by a Covid-19-led recession.…

Sub-Saharan Africa has natural resources that aids the development of renewable energy, it has lots of sun, plentiful wind, and much potentially sustainable biomass. With the development of small-scale affordable renewable energy technologies, such systems have been promoted by major aid agencies keen to prevent deforestation and excessive reliance on fossil fuels, that – even where they are plentiful, have not usually led to widespread economic development.…

Higher education institutions in Mozambique are now under legal pressure to replace lecturers who only have bachelors’ degrees with those who have masters and PhD qualifications. A law, the ‘Regulamento de licenciamento e funcionamento das Instituições só Ensino Superior decree 46/2018’, has been formally enforced since August (2021) a Mozambique government official told UWN.…

African students have been benefiting from an informal innovative online initiative helping them find jobs after they graduate. The iDEASlab (1) has in particular enabled higher education students to launch business ideas after graduation.

The network’s academics are Angolans based in the USA, Russia and Angola, who, inspired by their time at university, decided to work together informally to create development in their places of birth.…