23 September 2022
South Africa/Energy: In order to reduce reliance on coal and to counter notorious blackouts, the minister of Mineral Resources and Energy has signed three agreements with independent wind energy producers. Other such agreements are to follow.
BBC Africa Live 23 September 2022. 7:16
African newspapers: As the article’s author’s research into a Nigerian and a South African newspaper as well as her literature review shows, African media, just like their “western” counterparts, often “misrepresent Africa when reporting on diseases, and portray the west as superior and Africa as inferior.”
https://theconversation.com/african-newspapers-can-be-anti-african-too-what-my-research-found-190256
Uganda/Ebola: 3 more have died of the disease, so the total number of deaths is now 4. 11 cases have been confirmed and 7 other deaths are being investigated.
BBC Africa Live 23 September 2022. 17:38
South Sudan: According to a UN human rights panel, rape has become so common in the country “that many women are no longer bothering to report repeated sexual attacks”, seen also that there is no medical care for victims. Those “raped by armed forces while collecting firewood are threatened with death if they report it”.
BBC Africa Live 23 September 2022. 10:14
22 September 2022
“As a child cannot reach the shelf, so the adult cannot reach into the gourd”
BBC Africa Live 22 September 2022. 6:34. Proverb of the day. A Yoruba proverb sent by Yusuf Akinpelu in Lagos, Nigeria.
South Africa/Domestic workers: About 12% of the country’s working women work as domestic workers. Most of them have little or no safety nets as regulatory frameworks (e.g., health protection, maternity leave, employment benefits like pensions and paid leave) are rarely applied in such a “personal” and mostly informal context. The author’s research has a closer look at maternity protection for these domestic workers.
https://theconversation.com/12-of-working-women-in-south-africa-are-domestic-workers-yet-they-dont-receive-proper-maternity-leave-or-pay-189766
Zambia: It is high time: After about a dozen arrests and charges because of insulting the president in the past 12 months, the President has announced that he’ll push for the scrapping of the colonial-era law criminalising such “insults”. He had promised to do so during the election campaign, but has been slow to come true on his words.
BBC Africa Live 22 September 2022. 14:19
Chad: Rights activist Nodjigoto Charbonnel was awarded this year’s Rafto prize for his and his NGO “Youth for Peace” (AJPNV) supporting victims of torture and their working towards abolishing torture in Chad.
BBC Africa Live 22 September 2022. 12:11