COVID-19 has affected several industries in a variety of ways, and the media is not exempt. As members of the fourth estate do their best to keep the world informed amidst the pandemic, their hard work is debased by the proliferation of fake news and...
In 2019, a United Nations report laid out a bitter truth: The current food system is fueling the destruction of Earth’s forests — and humanity must overhaul how we grow and ship food to stop climate breakdown. But countries are struggling to keep farming sustainable while meeting the...
A free-flowing global maritime trade is critical in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, which has put a strain on global commerce and negatively affected economies around the world, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development has said. This agency’s stance backs a recent call by...
The coronavirus outbreak is rapidly spreading across the African continent. Africa CDC reported that as of March 31, 2020, there were over five thousand cases of people infected with COVID-19 in 46 African countries. As the pandemic expands across the African region, Opera is doing its part in...
We’re seeing it all: CEOs taking pay cuts amid layoffs, Gap and Zara producing masks in their factories, General Motors and Ford building ventilators, and social media sites such as LinkedIn and Instagram replete with examples of corporate generosity in this crisis-ridden time. But what...
Commercial banks in Nigeria are reducing international spending limits by their customers abroad amid the country’s fragile currency situation, caused by the coronavirus pandemic and a drop in international oil prices. Guaranty Trust Bank has reduced how much foreign currency its customers can spend abroad from...
Three of the world’s leading platinum producers in South Africa – Anglo American Platinum, Sibanye-Stillwater and Impala Platinum (Implat)- have declared ‘force majeure’ on contracts in the wake of a three-week national lockdown. This means that all contractual agreements between the companies and other parties are technically...
How, and how much, is the coronavirus pandemic affecting the clean economy? Last week, I set out to find out — the good, the bad and the nothing-to-see-here reality — for our GreenBiz 350 podcast: a virtual roundtable of GreenBiz analysts: Katie Fehrenbacher, senior writer and conference...
The race may be on to accelerate the rollout of battery powered electric trucks, with challengers such as Tesla and Arrival battling with established brands such as Volvo and Mercedes-Benz, but work is also underway to ensure fuel cell trucks are not left in the...
Economists and analysts have warned that the Nigerian economy is heading towards a major depression and not a recession. This is in reaction to a claim by finance minister Zainab Ahmed that the country may be heading towards another recession if the current global crisis is prolonged. The...
