African Startups Pivot To Serve Health Industry During COVID-19 Pandemic
Female engineering entrepreneurs leading the way as first projects funded Five female entrepreneurs are combining their engineering and business skills in the fight against COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa thanks to funding from the Royal Academy of Engineering through its Project CARE (COVID Africa Rapid Entrepreneurs) initiative. Project CARE is an international collaboration of academic, health […]
Smart Water Solutions That Will Disrupt Africa
The mother continent is not readily associated with water. Even Toto’s popular song talks about blessing the rains down in Africa. Images of drought and famine have seared the idea into our minds that Africa is a dry continent. But this is a vast oversimplification. Africa is a dry continent, but also a wet continent. […]
Apple Music is Launching its First Radio Show in Africa
The streaming platform announced that “Africa Now Radio with Cuppy” will debut Sunday and will feature a mix of contemporary and traditional popular African sounds, including genres like Afrobeat, rap, house, kuduro and more. Cuppy, the Nigerian-born DJ and music producer, will host the weekly one-hour show, which will be available at 9 a.m. EDT. […]
Kenya’s New Trade Under Threat
In Kenya, camels are a very popular animal to keep as livestock. There’s value in their meat and milkproducts and as a result, there are now over three million camels in the country. But there is a danger that the people who come into contact with camels, and their products, face getting the Middle East […]
Guinea Bissau Cleans Up its Narco State Reputation
Concern is mounting that Guinea-Bissau’s efforts to stem the flow of drugs to Europe and the US have suffered a setback after a military-backed president took office. Court documents show that the loot seized in Guinea-Bissau’s largest ever drug bust last September included more than 20 vehicles, among them a “cinnamon coloured” Mercedes Benz, $3m […]
Can Khartoum Go it Alone?
Activists in Sudan are urging the UN and African Union not to go ahead with plans to withdraw 26,000 peacekeepers from Darfur this year, claiming the move will put lives at risk. The peacekeepers from the AU-UN hybrid operation in Darfur, which has a mandate to protect civilians by force if necessary, will leave in […]
Ramadan in Kenya during a Pandemic
Abdi Latif Dahir, a New York Times reporter based in Nairobi, reflects on how the pandemic reshaped the holy month. There should be worshipers converging there during this sacred month of Ramadan, but the mosque’s doors remained shut, its prayer halls empty since closing in March because of the coronavirus pandemic. “This is a Ramadan […]
Ghanaian War Vet Goes the Distance to Fight Virus
A 95-year-old Ghanaian World War II veteran walked 23 kilometres in one week to raise funds for healthcare workers fighting the coronavirus pandemic in Africa. Joseph Hammond logged 3.2 kilometres each day to reach his target on Africa Day earlier this week in Ghana’s capital, Accra. As of Thursday, he had raised almost $26,000. Hammond […]
Nigerian Tech Firms Gives SMEs a Lifeline
Before coronavirus pandemic, Rovingheights, a book distribution business based in two Nigerian cities made sales daily from online and walk-in orders. But as the virus spread to the country, forcing a lockdown that lasted several weeks in some of its major cities in March, Rovingheights says it was forced to temporarily close down its stores […]
Kenyan Startup Provides at Home Health Services
Over 600 Nairobians getting medical care at home through TIBU Health. It is a small player in a global movement towards home-based medical care, and its March launch coincided with the coronavirus pandemic that has forced much of the world’s population to stay at home. TIBU also administers COVID-19 tests in people’s homes. Customers start […]
