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A consensus is growing within Somalia’s higher education services that the current tertiary sector needs to be better aligned with the country’s developing labour market demands as its economy emerges from years of conflict.

There has been a significant level of agreement to the conclusions of a new report highlighting such concerns – ‘Somalia’s Education Sector: Fostering Skills Through A Demand-driven Education System’, co-produced by a think tank the Heritage Institute for Policy Studies and the City University of Mogadishu.…

REGULATING money laundering within the gaming sector needs to be tough because of the potential to move large sums of money through regulated casinos, sports and online betting services. While placing an accurate number on the amount of money laundered through the sector is impossible, the scope for doing so is illustrated by the sector’s huge size – according to international market researchers Research & Markets, the industry’s worldwide turnover should reach USD525 billion by 2023 (1).…

Textile industry innovators are seeking to create and improve naturally coloured cotton, that can reduce or even remove the need for manufacturers to add dyes that can be expensive and generate significant levels of pollution.

Natural coloured cotton is not new, with Liv Severino, head of Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa), the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, a state-owned research corporation affiliated with Brazil’s ministry of agriculture, livestock and food supply, noting evidence that human clothes were made from such fibres in the Andes 5,000 years ago.…

The South African clothing and textile sector is looking for action from the country’s government under a clothing, textiles, footwear and leather industry master plan unveiled in July (2020) to help it recover from Covid-19. Manufacturing of clothing and textiles in South Africa was already weak, having been buffeted by cheap exports from China for the past 14 years since the end of the World Trade Organisation’s multifibre agreement in December 2006.…

Growing Asian dairy markets are increasingly regulating the health claims that could be made on packs of food, a trend that is impacting international dairy exporters from Europe as much as local dairy producers.

A key example is Taiwan, that will in 2022 forbid the word ‘healthy’ on food items except foods that have received special health food permits.…

THE PORTUGUESE textile and clothing industry has proved to be an example of resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic due to its clusters, flexibility, investment in research and development (R&D) and good ethics, a Oporto and Brussels-based clothing industry innovation agency has argued.…

Companies House, the UK company register, is to verify directors’ identities before they can be appointed, under a new transparency drive aimed at tackling fraud and money laundering. Unveiled September 18, in the government’s full response to its ‘corporate transparency and register reform’ consultation, the planned changes would give Companies House more powers to query and investigate the registration details that organisations provide, with the right to reject false information.…

QUANTUM computing is coming to fruition after decades of research and these new powerful systems will offer textile finishers the opportunity to develop new chemicals and products that they simply could not explore and create using classical computers.

These new computers excel in the complex calculations that are needed to model molecules, especially those from nature, whose assessment are often at the core of designing new chemical solutions that could deliver new functionality and colour to textiles.…

TEXT fraud is maybe more dangerous that email fraud, given the tendency for mobile phone users to respond to texts swiftly and without careful thought, cyber-security experts warn.

The Covid-19 pandemic has also created opportunities for fraudsters using texts and messaging services such as WhatsApp to launch fishing and other attacks on the unwary.…

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.…