Corporate Council on Africa News Updates

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Climate Change Resilience Advancing a Lower-Carbon Future

Chevron
Providing guidance and oversight for Chevron’s approach to climate change is an important Board priority. We regularly consider climate and related sustainability issues as an integral part of our review of the Company’s overall business strategy…Read more>>

Flutterwave teams up with PayPal on African payments
WHBL
LAGOS (Reuters) – Fintech company Flutterwave has teamed up with U.S. payments giant PayPal to enable PayPal customers pay African merchants through its platform, the Africa-focused payments firm said on Tuesday…Read more>>

U.S.-AFRICA RELATIONS


A New Path for U.S.-Africa Climate Relations | Opinion

Newsweek
The world faces simultaneous challenges with the COVID-19 pandemic: economic downturn and increasing impacts of climate change, all of which are exacerbating ongoing global inequity. Full economic recovery hinges upon the world’s ability…Read more>>

HEALTH

COVID-19 derailed universal health coverage in Africa, flags report
DowntoEarth
There are signs of progress on the universal health coverage (UHC) front in Africa, but they are are slow and have worsened over time in a few countries, according to the Africa Health Agenda International Conference (AHAIC) commission…Read more>>

TOURISM

6 ways government can help recover ailing tourism industry

IOL
Jabulani Debedu, a senior consultant at BDO South Africa, has shed light on how the South African tourism industry can work towards recovery. The once-thriving industry has taken a knock due to the Covid-19 pandemic…Read more>>