Graça Machel and Melinda Gates to Make a Call to Action on behalf of Women and Girls on Africa.com Webinar
Graça Machel and Melinda Gates will make a call to action in response to the impact of COVID-19 on women and girls in Africa during the next webinar session on Africa.com. Graça Machel is one of the world’s leading advocates for women’s and children’s rights and has been a social justice and political activist for many decades. […]
Using Tech to Ensure that African Hotels are Equipped to Compete
Zimbabwe-based hotel-booking startup Africabookings is the second platform acquired by B2B firm HotelOnline within a month, as the company looks to ramp up its B2B offering. Founded in 2014, HotelOnline is a leading e-commerce and digital marketing platform for hotels that has helped more than 1,500 hotels across 18 markets in Africa and the Middle […]
The Benefits of having more Local Exchange Points
Governments in Africa, internet service providers, and even some of the biggest global tech companies, are working towards the same goal to make internet access cheaper and faster. Current evidence suggests there is a long way to go as Africa ranks as the regional highest for costs and regional lowest for speeds. Boosting internet access […]
African Banks Invest in Technology
The increased demand for digital products and services has prompted many banks to invest more in technology to strengthen their digital services. In an emailed note to customers, Access Bank said 2020 has redefined how people live and do business amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. “Fortunately, with the improvements on our mobile, internet banking, most of […]
WHO Calls For Equitable Access To Future Covid-19 Vaccines In Africa
WHO and partners launched the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator to speed up the development, production and equitable access to COVID-19 diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines The World Health Organization (WHO) in Africa (www.Afro.WHO.int) joined immunization experts in urging the international community and countries in Africa to take concrete actions to ensure equitable access to […]
A Move Towards Online Exams Gathers Pace In South Africa
Learning-software company signs partnership deal that enables remote, paperless examinations New Leaf Technologies, which provides best-of-breed learning software and services to corporations, training companies and educational institutions throughout Africa and the Middle East, is collaborating with Cirrus Assessment, which offers remote exam creation and delivery, marking and analysis, and invigilating. Says Paul Hanly, CEO of […]
Angola’s Longonjo Project Listed On The London Stock Exchange
Australian exploration company Pensana Rare Earths has listed its Longonjo project in Angola on the London Stock Exchange, representing the U.K.’s first resources-focused IPO since COVID-19. Located approximately 300 km from Lobito, the Longonjo project holds vast deposits of neodymium and praseodymium (NdPr), which are used in the manufacturing of large permanent batteries for electric […]
Has COVID-19 Pushed Women in Politics off Kenya’s Agenda?
In 2013, Alice Wahome ran in her third attempt to win the hotly-contested Kandara constituency parliamentary seat in Murang’a County, Central Kenya. As is typical of rural politics, the field was male-dominated, with the stakes being high for all candidates but more especially so for Wahome — no woman had ever occupied the Kandara constituency […]
WC Construction Industry To Prepare For Covid-19 Peak
Latest epidemiological models have revealed that the COVID-19 infection peak in the Western Cape will take place from late July through early August. This is both longer and flatter than anticipated, said Premier Alan Winde. Although this will assist with the capacity of the healthcare system, it means that the worst of the pandemic is […]
