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7th UN Global Road Safety Week 15-21 May 2023

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Road traffic injures are a leading cause of death and disability worldwide, with around 1.3 million people killed and as many as 50 million people injured each year. For people aged 5-29 years, there is no greater threat to their lives. Globally, 1 of every 4 deaths occur among pedestrians and cyclists. The Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030 reflects an ambitious target to reduce road traffic deaths and injuries by 50% by 2030. It highlights that they can be prevented by addressing the whole of the…

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Road Safety Week: African Nations Steer towards Reducing Deaths

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Traffic accidents are the leading cause of death among African youth, so governments across the continent have resolved to drive in a new unified direction, ahead of Road Safety Week, observed 15 to 21 May. Increasingly grim accident statistics provided the impetus for action, including two bus crashes in Senegal that claimed 62 lives in January. In nearby Côte d’Ivoire, the daily number of fatal road accidents has risen to 46, from just 12 in 2012. In the world’s region most affected by road crashes, sub-Saharan Africa’s fatality rate is 27…

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THE 2023 SAPICS CONFERENCE UNPACKS SUPPLY CHAIN’S CRITICAL ROLE IN GLOBAL ESG IMPERATIVE WITH A FOCUS ON FRUIT DISTRIBUTION AND HEALTH SUPPLY CHAINS

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Circular and sustainable supply chains must be on the agenda of all organisations aiming to future-proof their businesses, according to SAPICS (the Professional Body for Supply Chain Management). This challenge, which is a critical part of the global environmental, social and governance (ESG) imperative, is one of the important topics that will be in the spotlight at the upcoming 2023 SAPICS Conference, Africa’s leading event for the supply chain profession. Hundreds of supply chain practitioners from around the world will gather in Cape Town from 11 to 14 June 2023 for this annual…

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DELOITTE AFRICA HOSTS 2023 SUSTAINABILITY SUMMIT AFRICA

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Africa’s transformational ESG conference aims to ensure a more sustainable, equitable future for Africa. The 2023 Sustainability Summit Africa hosted by Deloitte Africa will be held under the theme “People, Planet, Purpose”. Now in its third successful year, this event is organised by Smart Procurement. The 2023 summit, which takes place from the 6 to 8 June 2023, will see leading global and local thought leaders discuss some of the most pressing issues facing our world today at what is being billed as Africa’s transformational environment, social and governance (ESG) conference. The…

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GROWING AFRICAN ECONOMIES AND BUILDING COMMUNITIES WITH FRESH PRODUCE EXPORTS

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Over the past ten years, there has been a gradual transformation of African farming practices to enhance the focus on Africa’s export capacity. The continent is now firmly on the path to emerge as one of the world’s top exporters of fresh produce, but there are still lessons to be learned and supply chain challenges to be understood and overcome, according to Keith Marshall, CEVA Logistics’ air freight leader for Middle East and Africa. For the past two decades, Marshall has been directly involved in tracking volumes of major African…

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Sénégal : The governance of Dakar presents the development project of the Rufisque-Port of Dakar road

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Dakar, May 4 (APS) – The governance of Dakar and the Roads Works and Management Agency (Ageroute) presented, Thursday in Dakar, the project for the development and widening of the planned road between the port of Dakar and the city of Rufisque (west), the cost of which is estimated at 74 billion CFA francs. ”We are in the process of evaluating the occupations of the public highway. We are going to start the work very quickly, which will last twenty-four months […] The overall cost of the project is 74 billion…

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African Development Bank debars Goldsun Investments Company Limited for 24 months for Fraudulent Practices

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The African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org), on 9 May 2023, announces a 24-month debarment of Goldsun Investments Company Ltd. with effect from 31 January 2023. Goldsun Investments Company Ltd. is a limited liability company registered in the Republic of Kenya.   The debarment qualifies for cross-debarment by other multilateral development banks under the Agreement for Mutual Enforcement of Debarment Decisions An investigation conducted by the Bank’s Office of Integrity and Anti-Corruption established that Goldsun Investments Company Ltd. engaged in fraudulent practices during a tender for the dualling of the 84…

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MARITIME REGIONAL COLLABORATION: GHANA UNDERSTUDIES NIGERIAN CABOTAGE REGIME

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The Ghanaian Maritime Authority GMA has commenced a 10- Day program to understudy the implementation of the Coastal and Inland Shipping Act also known as the Cabotage Law in Nigeria under a collaborative arrangement with the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA. The Director General of NIMASA, Dr Bashir Jamoh OFR, while addressing the Ghanaian delegation, expressed delight at the opportunity to share knowledge on Cabotage implementation noting that it will not only enhance regional collaboration, but also have a multiplier effect of increasing local participation in the regional…

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Ghana: Kia Motors inaugurates a car assembly plant

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After Nissan, Volkswagen and Toyota, it is the turn of the South Korean car manufacturer, KIA Motors, to launch a car assembly plant in Ghana. The launching ceremony of this unit, which took place on Tuesday, May 2, was attended by the President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, and the Ghanaian Minister of Trade and Industry, Micahel Okyere Baafi. Built in the town of Amasaman, located 20km north of the capital Accra, the plant occupies an area of 65,000 m2, of which 16,000 meters are devoted solely to the assembly plant. …

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LAUNCH OF QATAR AIRWAYS CARGO’S FIRST AFRICAN HUB IN RWANDA

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On May 3, Qatar Airways officially launched the activities of its first African cargo hub in Kigali, Rwanda, in partnership with RwandAir. The launch was marked by the landing of a Qatar Airways Cargo Boeing 777 at the Rwandan capital airport, which will now connect Kigali and Doha twice a week. Several other routes will transit through this hub, including the Kigali-Lagos route (in Nigeria) three times a week, launched last March. There is also a weekly route from… read more on africaaero.org

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