Gambian Footballer Ropes in More Women to the Game
Ajara Samba says she is combining her university studies, working and playing top-flight football in The Gambia to give herself as many options as possible in the future. The 22-year-old plays for first division giants Red Scorpions in the Gambian women’s league and studies economics at the University of The Gambia. She has represented The […]
Buying Furniture Made in Nigeria Just Got Easier
Anyone that has struggled to easily and affordably purchase modern furniture items in Africa recently will know the associated challenges, but Nigerian startup Taeillo is here to help. Formed in 2018, Taeillo is an e-commerce startup based out of Lagos that makes it easy for Africans to shop for furniture online, and even applies augmented […]
Community Dump Provides Lifeline for Mozambican Families
For many Mozambicans, the Hulene dump, in Maputo, is a rescue resource to which they desperately resort in order to survive and support their families. It is the largest dump in the country and has become the basis for a plastic collection business dominated mainly by young people and women. The collectors survive by selling […]
WHO Investigates Claims that Staff Abused Women during an Ebola Outbreak
More than 50 women have accused aid workers from the World Health Organization and leading NGOs of sexual exploitation and abuse during efforts to fight Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In interviews, 51 women – many of whose accounts were backed up by aid agency drivers and local NGO workers – recounted multiple […]
Access to Water is the Cause of Instability in the Lake Chad Basin
Lake Chad is an extremely shallow water body in the Sahel. It was once the world’s sixth largest inland water body with an open water area of 25,000 km2 in the 1960s, it shrunk dramatically at the beginning of the 1970s and reduced to less than 2,000 km2 during the 1980s, decreasing by more than […]
What Stands in the Way of Kenyan Women in the Manufacturing Industry?
Raising start-up capital is one of the biggest challenges for women entrepreneurs in Kenya’s key manufacturing sector, with banks requiring collateral that most of them do not have, a new study has found. Most women work or run businesses in the informal economy, and face numerous difficulties including pay and promotion disparities, as well as […]
Nigerian Woman Turns her Pain into a National Awareness Initiative
In February of 2016, Hauwa Ojeifo considered taking her own life. She was diagnosed with Bipolar and post-traumatic stress disorder with mild psychosis. Two months after Ojeifo’s diagnosis, she said she decided to turn her difficult experiences around. She started to create awareness on the far-reaching impacts of mental health in Nigeria. In April 2016, […]
African States First In Line for Rapid Covid-19 Tests
The World Health Organization has announced an agreement to make rapid Covid-19 tests available to lower and middle-income countries across the world. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general said that these “vital” tests will help expand testing in remote areas, “that do not have lab facilities or enough trained health workers to carry out PCR tests.” […]
Activists Go On Trial for Forcibly Removing African Art from European Museums
A Congolese activist and four others went on trial on Wednesday on theft charges for trying to remove a 19th-century African funeral pole from a Paris museum, as part of a protest campaign against colonial-era plundering. Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza has staged similar actions in museums in the Netherlands and the southern French city of Marseille […]
South Africa Opens its Borders, But Not to its Frequent Visitors
The government has provided a list of countries with high infection rates that will not be allowed to let residents travel to SA when the borders open on Thursday. The list includes some countries that are traditionally the source of the highest-spending travellers to SA. Home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi announced on Wednesday that travellers […]
