Africa needs engineers as much as it needs doctors to prevent deaths, according to South African entrepreneur and founder of Paramount Group, Ivor Ichikowitz
Manufacturing
Thinking differently about the environment
A Finnish parliamentarian and a UNEP practitioner speak on natural resources as sources of conflict and as the basis for peace
Zambia Kansanshi Mining to build US$640 million smelter
Kansanshi Mining Plc plans to construct a copper smelter valued at US$640mn in Zambia’s North-Western province in the hope it will increase the company’s production
Water Aid opens office in South Africa
Charity organisation Water Aid has opened a new office in South Africa as part of its attempts to improve safe water access to some of Africas neediest communities
Chinese firm to invest in Zimbabwe Chrome smelters
Chinese firm Afrochine Smelting will invest about US$2 million to construct two smelters in Zimbabwe for processing chrome ore into high-carbon ferrochrome, low-carbon ferrochrome and ferrosilicon chrome