The companies also indicated that collaboration within and across markets will be key to success so the companies decided to launch the Africa Plastics Recycling Alliance to increase those efforts and play their part as companies in finding solutions that work for Africa.
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Kenya Urges Tanzania, Uganda To Ban Plastic
Kenya’s National Environment Management Authority director general Prof Geoffrey Wahungu said despite the ban, the regulator still faces challenges in controlling contraband materials. “We have done well but we will not be free from plastic pollution if Uganda and Tanzania continue to produce the materials, which are sneaked into the country through the borders,” Prof Wakhungu
FG protests as Ghana deports 723 Nigerians
The federal government has protested inhuman treatment of Nigerians by the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) Nigeria's high commissioner to Ghana, Ambassador Michael Abikoye, said 723 Nigerians have been deported from Ghana between 2018 and 2019 The high commissioner said that 723 Nigerians were deported on alleged illegal stay, cybercrime and prostitution between the January 2018 and January 2019. According to him, 81 Nigerians were deported on alleged cybercrime and illegal stay in January, while 115 have so far been deported in February on the allegation of overstay and prostitution.
Racist Gandhi statue removed from university of Ghana
A statue of Mahatma Gandhi, the famed Indian independence leader, has been removed from a university campus in Ghana's capital, Accra.
Preparing for Africa’s Population Boom
Africa's population is growing rapidly and is set to double by 2050
Ghana Closes 400 Nigerian Businesses
More than 400 businesses owned by Nigerians have been closed by authorities in Ghana
The Future Is in Africa, and China Knows It
Fast population growth offers some great investment opportunities, but the West is missing out.
Bill Gates says we’re approaching a dangerous tipping point in global poverty.
The United Nations wants to put an end to extreme poverty by 2030
53 more Ghanaian referees banned after bribery probe
The Referees' Association of Ghana (RAG) has handed life-time bans to six more referees in the wake of an investigation into bribery.