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Boom: It’s not only international tourists travelling in Zambia, locals are exploring too. Photo: Zambia Tourism Agency

Zambia tourism taking off

In the past three years, Zambia has recorded a nearly 300% increase in international tourist arrivals, following the removal of visa fees

  • Eyaaz
3 min read
Lessons learned: During the Covid-19 pandemic, Global South countries such as South Africa were the last to get vaccines, ventilators and personal protective equipment, with these items delivered to wealthier nations first and surplus vaccines left to expire. Photo: David Harrison

Reform legislation to boost the Pandemic Treaty

Business interests and intellectual property laws privilege the wealthy and leave the rest scrabbling for life-saving medicine

  • Eyaaz
7 min read

Why hotel reviews alone shouldn’t drive your travel decisions

Ninety-seven percent of hotel guests consult online reviews before booking their stay, according to a recent study by Accor

  • Derek Davey
6 min read

Young people want to work, not wait

A skilled, educated, economically supported youth is the bedrock of a strong democracy

  • Derek Davey
6 min read
Peking: A woman in a blue coat takes a throat swab from a woman for a Covid-19 test. Before the People’s Congress in China, participating media representatives had to have a Covid test. (Photo by Johannes Neudecker/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Global health equity undermined by US propaganda against Chinese Covid-19 vaccines

Six months before the first jabs arrived, an online survey in January of 2021 showed that nearly 60% of the 7 193 respondents were confident in a Covid-19 vaccine made in the US or Europe

  • Des Erasmus
6 min read