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ESG push will help improve diversity in US companies

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UNITED STATES

Policy, disclosure requirements and stakeholder pressures, particularly from investors, push them in that direction. The exception is diversity and inclusion, which form part of…

Egypt's sanitation plan hinges on funding and strategy

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EGYPT

Egypt's rual sanitation programme.

Elections are unlikely to help resolve Mali conflict

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MALI

The move to hold the long-delayed elections is an outcome of the Inclusive National Dialogue that concluded on December 22. The elections, assuming they take place as scheduled…

Low-income health needs more than isolated innovation

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INTERNATIONAL

Innovating in healthcare.

Supervision change could politicise banking in Georgia

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GEORGIA

Tensions between the governing Georgian Dream (GD) coalition, President Giorgi Margvelashvili and Kadagidze have risen rapidly in recent months, sparked by the government's…

US infrastructure cybersecurity is improving slowly

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US

Much of this work must be done by subnational and private sector actors, including companies, and state and local governments. The latter have made measured progress on ramping up…

Leadership, labour woes to hurt South Africa mining

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SOUTH AFRICA

The gold sector has so far avoided strikes (NUM concluded a wage agreement affecting two firms on October 2), unlike the wider mining sector. Government policies and support…

US shift boosts hopes of Venezuela dialogue progress

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VENEZUELA

Optimism is building that there will be progress in dialogue efforts between President Nicolas Maduro's government and US-recognised ‘interim president’ Juan Guaido. The current…