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A shorter version of this article appeared in Business Day, South Africa on 23rd March 2020
Last month President Ramaphosa in his SONA heralded the forthcoming construction of a new 5G-ready smart city around Lanseria Airport in the next decade. With it, South Africa was belatedly thrust to the front of a Continent-wide rush to establish so-called smart and eco-friendly cities, seen as a means of jump-starting the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution powered by digital technology.
I’ve had a few heated debates in the past few days about how I appear to care more about the economic fallout of Covid-19 than the mounting death toll from the virus itself.
Of course I care, and especially about the looming global health system crises too. But looking to the bigger picture, I also know that in the long-run, for better or for worse, this virus will be under control in a about a year’s time. Whereas the economic fallout, and by extension the social and political fallout could last decades.
Congo drops demand for immediate Rwandan troop pullout, sources say https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-africa/congo-drops-demand-for-immediate-rwandan-troop-pullout-5096624
The devil is in the details.
The forthcoming U.S.-brokered peace agreement to be signed by Rwanda and DRC contains a last minute clause that allows the suspected 7000 or so RDF
July 1 reckoning: Somalia mission faces funding cliff
The African Union Support and Stabilisation Mission (AUSSOM) in Somalia is facing a financial cliff edge this coming Monday.
With no funding being found after 6 months of desperate attempts to
US wants Rwandan troops out of Congo before peace deal signed, sources say
