Africa. Climate Change.

 AGRIBUSINESS

Zimbabwe: Insurance Lab to Benefit Small Scale Farmers
The Herald
Zimbabwe and other countries are working on an insurance lab to come up with climate change mitigation solutions to cover smallholder farmers who rely on rainfall to grow their crops, but have no access to insurance...Read more>>

Building Resilience Against Urban Flooding
This Day
Across Nigeria the annual wet season sees our news reports and social media feeds 'flooded' with images of commuters wading through rain and sewerage to get home, cars washed off roads and businesses and livelihoods floating on busy streets...Read More>>

ICT 
Namibia Ranks 100th in the World in Digital Quality of Life Index 2021
Namibia Economist
The global digital well-being study shows that Namibia lacks better e-security, in the third annual edition of the Digital Quality of Life Index (DQL) ranks Namibia 100th among 110 countries. Covering 90% of the global population...Read More>> 

Namibia: Tourism Ministry Inks Agreement With Travel and Tourism Forum
Namibia Economist
The Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism earlier recently signed an agreement that will improve the circulation of general sectoral communication, provide training, capacity building and research, with the Namibia Travel and Tourism Forum...Read More>>

Africa. COVID-19 crisis

 HEALTH

Environmental Rescue Initiative Empowers Trained Traditional Midwives in Harrisburg Township to Ensure Covid-19 Vaccine Equity in Rural Communities
Frontpage Africa
As part of efforts to ensure equity in the rollup of the COVID-19 vaccine, about 60 Trained Traditional Midwives in Harrisburg Township have been trained by the Environmental Rescue Initiative to provide the much-needed information...Read more>>

SMEs get Covid resilience funding
New Era
To assist entrepreneurs recovering from Covid-19, SMEs Compete provided an opportunity to 20 small business owners to pitch their products to a panel of adjudicators for possible funding.
One of the participants, Didi Skeyer...Read more>>