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2 months ago | 
bizcommunity.com | Harry Welby-Cooke |Southern Africa
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Welcome back to 2025. Hopefully you we’re privileged enough to take a break at least somewhere over the festive season. I trust you used the time to enjoy family, indulge a ‘little’, reflect, energise and maybe just forget about work and the trials and tribulations of 2024. I’m sure like most people I’ve spoken to, you are energised and excited about the year and its possibilities.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
africa-newsroom.com | Southern Africa
GRAND SUD REGION, Madagascar, January 13, 2025/APO Group/ -- “I live with my six children, one of whom has a disability,” said 40-year-old Zeteny, from the Anôsy region in Madagascar’s Grand Sud region.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
africa-newsroom.com | Southern Africa
SANDTON, South Africa, January 10, 2025/APO Group/ -- The cries of newborn twins broke the silence of a small clinic in Malawi, a sound that might not have been heard without the lifesaving skills of Nora, a UNFPA-supported midwife. Late one night, a young mother arrived after walking for hours, her pregnancy complicated and her life hanging by a thread. Nora, previously trained, equipped with tools, and supported by UNFPA, safely delivered the twins and stabilized the mother.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
africa-newsroom.com | Southern Africa
SANDTON, South Africa, November 25, 2024/APO Group/ -- Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. When conflict and disaster force women and girls to flee their communities and homes, they face grave danger. Displacement takes a devastating toll on their well-being and leaves them exposed to violence and abuse. As livelihoods and safety nets vanish in emergencies, rates of gender-based violence can skyrocket.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
africa-energy.com | Southern Africa |West Africa
Published October 2024 this map illustrates the problems Libya's energy sector is facing due to gas supply constraints that are creating a shortage of feedstock for General Electric Company of Libya (Gecol)’s fleet of existing, under construction and planned gas power plants. The main map provides an overview of Libya's main oil and gas production areas and power generation sites.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
africa-newsroom.com | Southern Africa
HARARE, Zimbabwe, October 18, 2024/APO Group/ -- “I had sex thinking he loved me. But when I fell pregnant, I saw a very unexpected side of him,” 20-year-old Olivia Nyangasi told UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. Ms. Nyangasi had never been taught how to practice safe sex. At 17, she became pregnant; but her boyfriend denied all responsibility for the situation. He tried to force her to get an abortion.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
africa-newsroom.com | Southern Africa
SANDTON, South Africa, October 14, 2024/APO Group/ -- “Our village was peaceful until these armed men appeared, sowing terror and death,” Aicha* told UNFPA, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency, recalling a night three years ago when her village was attacked. "They slaughtered two men, right in front of me,” she said. “"We fled, leaving everything behind.”Aicha and their four children found safety at a displacement camp in Fotokol, a town in the Far North region of Cameroon.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
africa-newsroom.com | Southern Africa
SANDTON, South Africa, October 7, 2024/APO Group/ -- “My sister should not have passed away in the way she did,” Josephine Telo told a group of women who had survived female genital mutilation. This was the practice – the mutilation of a woman or girl’s genitals for no medical reason – that killed her sister.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
sharenet.co.za | Southern Africa
2024 Final Dividend Currency Exchange RatesSouth32 Limited(Incorporated in Australia under the Corporations Act2001 (Cth))(ACN 093 732 597)ASX / LSE / JSE Share Code: S32; ADR: SOUHYISIN: AU000000S320south32.net2024 FINAL DIVIDEND CURRENCY EXCHANGE RATESSouth32 Limited (ASX, LSE, JSE: S32; ADR: SOUY) (South32) announced on 29 August 2024 that the Board resolved to pay a finaldividend of US 3.1 cents per share (fully franked) for the year ended 30 June 2024.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
africa-newsroom.com | Southern Africa
SANDTON, South Africa, September 18, 2024/APO Group/ -- As mothers in Malawi are forced to move because of extreme flooding, in Zambia a family of five packs their belongings and leaves their village because of drought. All through the East and Southern Africa Region, the effects of climate change are making themselves known, and while they force migration, displacement, and scarcity an insidious ripple effect that impacts women and girls most is showing its face.
