Global Covid-19 Experts See Inequitable Distribution And Vaccine Hesitancy As The Key Challenges For Africa In 2021
Global and African vaccine experts join BroadReach Group webinar to address mass vaccination rollout concerns and solutions ● Mass immunizations must be treated as a multi-year marathon, and vaccine hesitancy must be addressed before herd immunity can be achieved. – Dr Tim Mastro, chief scientist at FHI 360 ● Health authorities must share vaccine rollout information with the […]
Drought-Tolerant Maize Project Pioneers A Winning Strategy For A World Facing Climate Change
As partners come together as One CGIAR to enact a bold climate-centered strategy, projects like CIMMYT and IITA’s decades-long work on climate-smart maize can help show the way forward. Since the 1980s, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) have spearheaded the development and deployment of […]
Four Areas Companies Should Look To Restart, Reinvent And Renew
By Angelique Montalto, SAP Concur Regional Director for Africa It’s clear that we will continue to feel the long-lasting impact of the pandemic on global economics for the majority of 2021, but it’s not all doom and gloom. Instead, it is a great time to restart and reinvent our ways of working. It’s a time […]
Building Greater Sustainability, Climate Resilience In West Africa
By Titilayo Adewum Regional Sales Director: West Africa at SAP Across Africa, urban centres are rapidly expanding as the continent’s large – and growing – youth population seek better fortunes in the city. In 2020, Kinshasha was the world’s 17th-largest city by population size, and Lagos the 18th-largest. However, the astonishing rate of urbanisation will […]
Honeywell And IDEMIA Announce Strategic Alliance To Develop Intelligent Building Offering
The alliance integrates Honeywell security and building management systems with IDEMIA’s biometric-based access control systems to create a more seamless experience for buildings of the future Honeywell, a global leader in connected buildings, and IDEMIA, the global leader in Augmented Identity, today announced a strategic alliance to create and cultivate an intelligent building ecosystem that provides […]
The Courier Guy Keep Drivers And Customer Packages Safe Using Cutting-Edge Safety Platform
AURA, South Africa’s leading security and safety platform has partnered with The Courier Guy to ensure the safety of drivers and customer packages via a unique mobile panic app as well as a cutting-edge Internet-of-Things (IoT) linked panic button. AURA’S unique solution allows The Courier Guy drivers to immediately request rapid mobile emergency response in […]
Who Will Lead Football in Africa?
Four men are contending to lead the Confederation of African Football (CAF) as the election is slated for March 12 in Rabat, Morocco. Augustin Senghor of Senegal, Ahmed Yahya from Mauritania, the Ivorian Jacques Anouma and South Africa’s Patrice Motsepe are in a fierce battle for the top job at CAF, the body in charge […]
Empowering Cobblers in Nigeria’s Cities
About 95 percent of cobblers across Nigeria come from the north-most of whom have very little or no formal education. They usually move from street to street with their toolboxes and a pocketful of hope in search of customers in the neighbourhoods. These small scale entrepreneurs make their living through daily earnings from shoe repairs. Although […]
Cameroonian Fintech Startup Raises Millions to Scale Operations
Diool started life as a mobile recharge project back in 2015, offering small merchants a way to sell prepaid recharges to their customers from a single app, but eventually pivoted into financial services aggregation after realising payment interchanges and financial services access was the pain point of its target users. The startup’s platform makes it […]
Prisoners from Tigray Protest their Detention
Lawyers representing jailed Ethiopian opposition politicians say they are concerned for the lives of their clients, whose hunger strike has gone on for nearly a month and drawn international attention as they protest their treatment by the government. The jailed politicians include media mogul-turned-politician Jawar Mohammed, Bekele Gerba, Hamza Adane, and Dejene Tafa. They were […]
