Go to a corporate headquarters, parliament or international conference, and it won’t be long before you see the colourful circle of a Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) pin shining from a lapel.
The UN global goals have been a major success in br…
In an ageing Japan, the ongoing population decline and growing concentration of people in urban areas are causing a natural decline in rural populations, making redesigning local economies an urgent concern.
Simultaneously, this demographical chang…
A few years ago, an experiment conducted on thousands of first-year university students found that setting goals generally helped them get better grades. No surprise. But in some cases, tweaking those goals slightly higher resulted not just in a lack…
The proliferation of plastic pollution is harming our planet, people and economies. Half of global plastic production is for single-use applications, and only 14% of plastics worldwide is collected for recycling, with just 2% considered closed-loop r…
South Korean group Hyundai Rotem and the Suez Canal Economic Zone Authority (SCZONE) have signed a contract to supply 40 trains and 320 cars for lines 1 and 2 of the Cairo metro. The agreement also provides for the construction of a local vehicle and…
President Hage Geingob has acknowledged Swapo Party vice president, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah as Namibia’s next possible first female president at the 78th United Nations General Assembly underway in New York.
Praising Namibia’s efforts to close the g…
The All People’s Party (APP) has elected Augustinus Shindimba Djami as the regional chairperson for the Kavango East Region for the next three years.
APP acting secretary general, Venitus Goraseb in a statement on Wednesday said the party held its …
Trade Unionists have called on Parliament to shelve plans to reduce the retirement age to 55 years, citing a breach of contractual terms. They said as trade unions, they will oppose the plans, saying stakeholders and civil servants have not been cons…
The former president of the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI, 1999-2001), Reverend Pastor Issaka Flavien Tapsoba, passed away on September 19, 2023.
In a press release, the current president of the CENI, Elysé Ouédraogo, saluted the …
The Burkinabe government adopted on Wednesday a draft decree which will now allow the ministry in charge of housing to be involved in all links in the chain of construction of public works.
“On behalf of the Ministry of Urban Planning, Land Affairs…