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<p>According to reports, SA Express reportedly paid R2.4 billion to music promoter, Eldrige Mothlake after he was awarded a three-year contract to supply the airline with fuel. Joining me now for more is Unathi Henama, Tourism Lecturer at TUT.</p>


SA Express allegedly paid R2.4 billion to music promoter

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<p>CNBC Africa&#8217;s Rofhiwa is in attendance of 10th BRICS Academic Forum in what is known as Africa&#8217;s richest square mile, Sandton. This year&#8217;s theme centres on inclusive development in the BRICS countries.  Minister of Higher Education and Training Naledi Pandor opened the sessions at the Academic Forum and is with Rofhiwa at the moment.<br />
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Minister Naledi Pandor on tackling barriers to education access

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<p>Joining CNBC Africa to look at new financial solutions through technology as well as the digitalisation of asset management is Jon &#8216;JB&#8217; Beckett, author of #NewFundOrder.</p>


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<p>CNBC Africa&#8217;s Kenneth Igbomor explores how infrastructure investments in East Africa could spur industrial growth with Silvester Kasuku, Director General and CEO LAPSSET Corridor Development Authority.</p>


How infrastructure investments in East Africa could spur industrial growth

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<p>I&#038;M Bank Rwanda Ltd held its first AGM since listing on the Rwandan bourse. With deposits reaching 209 Billion RWF, the bank also announced a final dividend of Frw 5.16 per share, and appointment of new directors. CEO Robin Bairstow joins CNBC Africa for more.   http://cnbc.africa/</p>


I&M Bank Rwanda Ltd hold first AGM since listing on Rwandan bourse

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<p>As the Nigerian Stock Exchange prepares for the 5th Lagos &#038; London Capital Markets in Partnership Conference on the first of June, Tony Ibeziako, Acting Head of the listing business division at the Nigerian Stock Exchange joins CNBC Africa to discuss this year&#8217;s theme &#8211; Attracting Global capital to drive Nigeria’s Economic Reforms and Sustainable Growth Development.<br />
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NSE readies for 5th Lagos & London Capital Markets in Partnership Conference

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<p>Rwanda’s quest to digitise her economy has led to the creation of various digital platforms. One of them is Irembo, a portal designed to facilitate access to government services. CNBC Africa’s Steven Muvunyi filed this report. http://cnbc.africa/</p>


Rwandan digital platform aims to ease access to government services

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<p>CNBC Africa&#8217;s Kenneth Igbomor caught up with Ernest Addison, Governor, Bank of Ghana at the AFDB Annual meetings in Busan, South Korea for an update on some of the biggest issues impacting Ghana&#8217;s banking sector.</p>


BoG’s Ernest Addison on resolving challenges facing Ghana’s banking sector

<figure><img decoding="async" src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/219916/original/file-20180522-51098-k8fls3.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=45&amp;auto=format&amp;w=754&amp;fit=clip" alt="File 20180522 51098 k8fls3.jpg?ixlib=rb 1.1" /><figcaption>Women looking for water in Sudan. Climate change can play a role in forcing people to migrate.<br />
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<p>It seems obvious that climate change has – and will – cause human conflict and the mass movement of people. Look at the effects of the droughts in Syria, Darfur and Ethiopia. The former <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/15/AR2007061501857.html">UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon</a> even described the ongoing war in Darfur as one of the “first climate wars”.</p>
<p>Various media have even started using terms such as “<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/nov/02/climate-change-will-create-worlds-biggest-refugee-crisis">climate refugees</a>” and “<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/21/devastating-climate-change-could-see-one-million-migrants-a-year-entering-eu-by-2100">environmental migrants</a>” to describe people fleeing their homes from these climate-driven conflicts. But is there any evidence for this link between climate change and conflict? There certainly isn’t any consensus in academic literature.</p>
<p>Africa is one of the most vulnerable continents to the effects of climate change. The <a href="http://www.unhcr.org/globaltrends2016/">UN Refugee Agency</a> reported that over 20 million people were displaced in Africa in 2016 – a third of the world’s total. The <a href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2018/03/19/climate-change-could-force-over-140-million-to-migrate-within-countries-by-2050-world-bank-report">World Bank</a> predicts that this could rise to 86 million by 2050 because of climate change.</p>
<p>East Africa in particular is predicted to experience a dramatic increase in unpredictability of seasonal and <a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg2/">inter-annual rainfall</a>. This is particularly challenging given that the region is heavily dependent on agriculture which is highly sensitive to climate changes. In some countries, like <a href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/ethiopia/overview">Ethiopia</a> and Sudan, agriculture accounts for more than 50% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Agriculture is a sector which has high climate sensitivity.</p>
<p>East Africa is also a region with a long history of conflict and displacement. Sudan and Somalia are current day examples. This makes it a good test case for the climate-conflict hypothesis.</p>
<p>In our recent <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-018-0096-6">paper</a>, my student Erin Owain and I tested this link using East Africa as our focus.</p>
<p>Our study suggests that the failure of political systems is the primary cause of conflict and displacement of large numbers of people. But we also show that climate change can potentially exacerbate situations where social and political systems are fragile. Climate change can play a role in forcing people to migrate.</p>
<h2>No single factor</h2>
<p>To test the climate-conflict hypothesis, we focused on the ten main countries in East Africa: Burundi, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe.</p>
<figure class="align-center zoomable"><a href="https://images.theconversation.com/files/219915/original/file-20180522-51135-gzw6o7.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=45&amp;auto=format&amp;w=1000&amp;fit=clip"><img decoding="async" src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/219915/original/file-20180522-51135-gzw6o7.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=45&amp;auto=format&amp;w=754&amp;fit=clip" alt="" /></a><figcaption><span class="caption">Climate change can potentially exacerbate situations where social and political systems are fragile.</span><br />
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<p>We used a new <a href="http://www.systemicpeace.org/inscrdata.html">database</a> that records major episodes of political violence and number of total displaced people for the past 50 years for each of the ten countries. We then used statistics to compare these records both at a country and a regional level with the appropriate climatic, economic and political factors.</p>
<p>Our study found that the evidence from East Africa is that no single factor can fully explain conflict and the displacement of people. Instead, long-term population growth, short-term negative economic growth and extreme political instability seem to be primarily linked to conflict. This echoes <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wcc.336">research</a> done in 2015 that suggested socio-political factors were more important than climate change.</p>
<p>Things were different for refugees who were forced to cross borders between countries. Refugees make up a maximum of one third of the total people displaced in East Africa showing that most people are displaced in their own country. But in contrast to total displaced people and conflict, variations in refugee numbers, were found to be significantly linked to the incidence of severe regional droughts. And these droughts can in turn be <a href="https://theconversation.com/droughts-in-east-africa-some-headway-in-unpacking-whats-causing-them-75476">linked to</a> a long-term drying trend coming with climate change.</p>
<p>So, even though displacement of people is linked to poverty and poor governance, it takes extreme weather events to force those people across international borders.</p>
<h2>The case for stable government</h2>
<p>We argue that with good stable governance there is no reason why climate change should lead to greater conflict or displacement of people, despite the World Bank’s dire predictions. International water disputes provide one reason to be optimistic. The <a href="http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/transboundary_waters.shtml">UN reports</a> that, over the past 50 years, there have been 150 international water resource treaties signed compared to 37 disputes that involved violence.<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://counter.theconversation.com/content/96372/count.gif?distributor=republish-lightbox-basic" alt="The Conversation" width="1" height="1" />We conclude that adaptation to climate change must prioritise good governance above all else. Robust political systems can protect citizens against extreme weather events and if disasters happen, these systems can ensure that people affected have adequate access to water, food, sanitation and shelter. Good governance is about protecting and looking after the most vulnerable people in society.</p>
<p><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/mark-maslin-108286">Mark Maslin</a>, Professor of Earth System Science, <em><a href="http://theconversation.com/institutions/ucl-1885">UCL</a></em></p>
<p>This article was originally published on <a href="http://theconversation.com">The Conversation</a>. Read the <a href="https://theconversation.com/politics-and-poverty-caused-past-conflicts-in-east-africa-not-climate-change-96372">original article</a>.</p>


Politics and poverty caused past conflicts in East Africa – not climate change, but is this about to change?

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<p>Ahead of Tuesday’s democracy day celebrations in Nigeria, Vincent Anigbogu, Director General of the Institute for National Transformation joins CNBC Africa to discuss some necessary steps needed to make the country’s journey to national unity much smoother.  http://cnbc.africa/</p>


Democracy Day: Nigeria’s journey so far?

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<p>World Bank President Jim Yong Kim says countries that have improved their educational and health outcomes the most have grown by far the fastest in the past 25 years. He spoke to CNBC Africa on the side-lines of the 53rd annual meeting of the board of governors of the African Development bank.</p>


World Bank chief speaks on how quality education could pay off for Africa’s growth

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<p>Nigeria&#8217;s security chiefs say they need more funding outside the budget to tackle the spate of insecurity across the country, a move backed by the senate who have asked the security chiefs to submit a budget for a special fund.</p>


Nigeria’s security chiefs, senate request special fund to tackle insecurity

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<p>South Africa hung onto to its credit rating and outlook from Standard &#038; Poor’s. The rating agency decided to retain the country&#8217;s foreign and local-currency sovereign credit rating at BB and BB+.</p>


Standard & Poor’s SA credit rating decision explained

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<p>Telecommunications group, Telkom reported its full year numbers today. Traditional fixed line revenue is down 4.7 per cent to R23.19 billion. But the group’s mobile revenue jumped 47 per cent to R5.15 billion, proving a key driver of growth for the group and helped to offset losses in BCX and Openserve. Telkom CEO, Sipho Maseko joins for more.<br />
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Mobile, fibre lifts Telkom’s FY earnings

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<p>The current business environment poses a challenge for small business owners even more so now that an increase in value added tax came into effect in last month. Rich Preece, Quickbooks Global Leader joins CNBC Africa to look at the potential effects of that increase on the business beyond consumer demand.<br />
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How the VAT rate increase will affect your business

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<p>Design and manufacturing company TMH Africa, a subsidiary of TMH international is investing in South Africa, the continents largest railway market, which will also serve as a gateway into the rest of Africa. Joining CNBC Africa is Jerome Boyet, CEO of TMH Africa.     http://cnbc.africa/</p>


TMH Africa to invest in Africa’s largest railway market

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<p>Joining CNBC Africa to give us a wrap up of the talks at the 8th African Unity for Renaissance Conference 2018 is Mmampei Chaba, Chief Director of Multilateral Cooperation and Africa, Department of Science and Technology.<br />
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SA Express allegedly paid R2.4 billion to music promoter

Minister Naledi Pandor on tackling barriers to education access

How technology is disrupting the finance industry

How infrastructure investments in East Africa could spur industrial growth

I&M Bank Rwanda Ltd hold first AGM since listing on Rwandan bourse

NSE readies for 5th Lagos & London Capital Markets in Partnership Conference

Rwandan digital platform aims to ease access to government services

BoG’s Ernest Addison on resolving challenges facing Ghana’s banking sector

Politics and poverty caused past conflicts in East Africa – not climate change, but is this about to change?

Democracy Day: Nigeria’s journey so far?

World Bank chief speaks on how quality education could pay off for Africa’s growth

Nigeria’s security chiefs, senate request special fund to tackle insecurity

Standard & Poor’s SA credit rating decision explained

Mobile, fibre lifts Telkom’s FY earnings

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Unpacking the 8th African Unity for Renaissance Conference outcomes

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