Africa Business

[Malawi News Agency] Mzimba -- Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MoLRD) has warned contractors who are constructing Mzimba Stadium and M'mbelwa District Council office complex against conniving with either politicians or public officers to inflate constract costs.

[Malawi News Agency] Lilongwe -- Integrated mobile network and ICT services provider TNM Plc, has partnered with KaiOS Technologies to launch the most affordable 4G KaiOS-enabled smart feature phone in Malawi.

[New Times] An Electronic Auctioning System will officially be launched on Wednesday, August 5, as government moves to reduce corruption in the auctioning process of loan defaulters' property.

[New Times] All taxi motos operating from the City of Kigali will not be allowed to operate without meters, starting on August 15, according to Patrick Nyirishema, Director-General at Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA).

[New Times] Banks in Rwanda are happy with the introduction of a new digital system that will be used to auction off properties of loan defaulters

[New Times] A proposal by the government to remove, from office, public servants who have been sentenced for more than two months has been rejected by lawmakers.

[SAIIA] Africa's response to COVID-19 has been boosted by nuclear-derived technology innovations and their peaceful application in the health and food sector. This clearly underscores value of nuclear energy to meeting the continent's developmental needs.

[allAfrica] Paris -- The Food and Drug Law Institute organized on July 30th a webinar on the perilous process for innovative tobacco manufacturers to obtain an authorization to communicate to the public.

[Brookings] Washington, DC -- Despite the coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration and Kenyan government launched trade negotiations in early July. Depending on the outcome of the negotiations, which were held virtually, the trade agreement could be the most significant development in U.S-Africa trade relations since the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) passed Congress in 2000. Indeed, according to the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Ambassador Robert Lighthizer, the U.S.-Kenya agreement will become a model for future

[RFI] South Arica's healthcare workers have been hit hard by Covid-19 as some 24,000 medical employees have contracted the coronavirus and 181of them have died since March, according to Health Minister Zweli Mkwize at a news conference this Wednesday.

[263Chat] President Emerson Mnangagwa has lamented over the country's political crisis, blaming "a divisive opposition" and Western sanctions for his government's failure to deliver an economic turnaround.

[Nation] Luanda -- Angola's President João Lourenço is facing a barrage of online criticism over his governance, in what could suggest a tougher virtual battle for him ahead of the 2022 elections.

[Seychelles News Agency] The Seychelles Ports Authority is now tendering out the main aspects of the Port Victoria expansion project and civil works which covers the south half of the port, said a top officer of the Ports Authority.

[Nyasa Times] Malawi government is taking reforms to mining sector and control the trade in minerals with Vice-President Saulos Chilima holiding orientation meeting with with Minister of Mining Rashid Gaffar and officials from his ministry.

[Premium Times] The approved price of petrol in Nigeria for August will increase, by up to 18 per cent according to estimates, as consumers await the release of the new retail price for the commodity by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA).

[UCT] "We believe that a person is a person through another person; that my humanity is caught up, bound up inextricably, with yours. When I dehumanise you, I inexorably dehumanise myself." This is Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu's definition of ubuntu.

[Nairobi News] Africa's largest supermarket chain Shoprite Holdings will lay off 115 workers and close its second branch in Kenya in less than five months, citing reduced flow of shoppers.

[Daily News] THE government is finalising the process to employ 12,000 teachers in continued efforts to strengthen the education sector.

[Ethiopian Herald] ADDIS ABABA - Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy disclosed that Ethiopia is committed to reach a speedy and win-win deal on the outstanding issues of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).

[New Zimbabwe] ZANU-PF has warned prominent South African opposition leader Julius Malema to keep his distance from Zimbabwe's internal affairs.

[New Era] Three Zimbabwean nationals are living in fear after they allegedly received death threats following attempts to organise a solidarity march in Windhoek over multiple accusations of violations of human rights and corruption by the ruling Zanu-PF.

[New Zimbabwe] President Emmerson Mnangagwa Tuesday gave away his internal insecurity over a sustained scrutiny and criticism on his brutal regime, bellowing out incoherent threats against opposition "terrorists" and their external sympathisers.

[Ensia] As demand for fossil fuel plummets, education, job creation and other support is critical to save millions of oil industry employees and their communities from collapse.

[New Zimbabwe] The surge in machete violence in the gold sector started receding when government announced a national lockdown, which commenced on 30 March, Centre for Natural Resources Governance (CNRG) said.

[New Zimbabwe] MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa resurfaced Tuesday with an emphatic endorsement of #Zimbabwelivesmatter and a surprise prison visit to incarcerated journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and opposition leader Jacob Ngarivhume.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Qatar Airways has resumed 14 weekly flights to Kenya's capital Nairobi.

[Botswana Daily News] Gaborone -- Botswana pork industry is said to be producing less than half of the national demand of 1500 tonnes per year.

[New Times] Qatar Airways has announced a resumption of services from the Kigali International Airport.

[The Conversation] Higher education is usually seen as a way for individuals and families to improve their economic status. Research shows, though, that graduates can remain unemployed for up to a year. In developing countries, in particular, the labour force is often growing faster than the labour market.

[New Times] An Electronic Auctioning System will officially be launched on Wednesday, August 5, as courts move to reduce corruption in the auctioning process of loan defaulters' property.