My input to Johannesburg Business School Webinar on COVID 19 impact on Africa
Taking about Africa at the time of COVID 19 is rather like reading the opening lines of a Tale Of Two Cities. The perfect conundrum to deal with the perfect storm. Come to think of it, what would that epic English populist writer have made of the pandemic. The Dickensian World might have been anured […]
Brazil’s top cocaine smuggle arrested in Mozambique
Brazil’s biggest cocaine smuggler has been arrested in Brazil. Police running the international sting operation are looking for cronies. They say he is part of big São Paulo gang and does not operate alone. Forty nine year old Gilberto Aparecido do Santos was nabbed at the luxury Monetebelo Indy hotel in Maputo. Two Nigerian citizens […]
WHO gets on with fighting COVID 19 while Donald Trump plays politics
Tons of protective equipment from the World Health Organisation has reached Ethiopia for wider distribution in Africa. It arrived as President Donald Trump suspended U.S. funding of the UN health body pending investigation of how it has handled the COVID 19 pandemic. The arrival in Ethiopia of a million facemasks, goggles, gloves, gowns and other […]