Nourishing Africa Partners With The Mastercard Foundation & U.S. African Development Foundation To Train Agripreneurs In Nigeria
The Entrepreneur Support Program (ESP) is designed to support grassroots MSMEs across the Nigerian agriculture and food landscapes to rebuild and strengthen their businesses. Leveraging ICT, data and innovation, Nourishing Africa has developed a four-step program to directly back these MSMEs with training, financing, and support to ensure the scaling of resilient businesses that can […]
Flight Doctor Completes 100th Mission On Emergency Flight To Sudan
Specialised aircraft and seamless teamwork make successful journey possible On a mission to Sudan, one of South Africa’s finest flight doctors traversed the continent, crossing the airspace of six countries and covering approximately 4 660 kilometers to save the life of one man. Dr Nadia Swart, flight doctor with the Netcare 911 fixed wing division, […]
Dozens of Mozambicans are Suffering from PTSD
The insurgency in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province is causing a mental health crisis, with a quarter of the region’s population now displaced. People are struggling with untreated trauma after witnessing extreme violence, including mass beheadings, said humanitarian groups concerned about the strain on those who have sheltered dozens of displaced people in their homes. Patricia […]
Lami Revolutionises Kenya’s Insurance Applications
Kenya-based B2B and B2B2C insurance-as-a-service platform and API Lami has digitised the entire insurance value chain end-to-end, and is busy expanding its customer base. The Lami platform and API handles things like KYC, pricing, underwriting and claims processing all in one place, and can be used to create, distribute and embed any type of insurance […]
New Guide for Africa’s Energy Sector Post Pandemic
The African Energy Chamber will be hosting a virtual book for the launch of its inaugural advisory book titled, African Energy Road To Recovery: How The African Energy Industry Can Reshape Itself For A Post COVID-19 Comeback. The open to public event set to take place on 16 March will introduce the publication through the voices […]
Equatorial Guinea Calls for Help after Munitions Blasts
A series of explosions attributed to mishandled explosives at a military base rocked a city in the central African nation of Equatorial Guinea on Sunday, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 500, the authorities said. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo said that fires on farms neighboring military barracks in the city of […]
An Uneasy Calm Returns in Dakar
A judge in Senegal has charged opposition leader Ousmane Sonko with rape and released him on bail, after days of deadly protests sparked by his arrest last week. Mr Sonko, 46, is accused of assaulting a woman who worked in a beauty salon. He says the case is politically motivated to stop him running again […]
Niger’s President Receives Good Governance Award
President Mahamadou Issoufou has won the 2020 Mo Ibrahim prize for African political leadership by fostering economic progress while joining in regional efforts to tackle the Islamist militant threat. He is the sixth head of state in Africa to win the $5 million award, to be paid out over 10 years, and the first since […]
Cameroonian Women Call for an Inclusive Government
In Cameroon, thousands of women held events to mark International Women’s Day and protesting their lack of political power in the country. The women, joined by rights groups, note all of Cameroon’s most powerful offices are held by men and there are only 11 female ministers, out of a 63-person Cabinet, and not even one […]
Inspiring Female Pioneers Shaping the Future of Space Exploration across Africa and Beyond
When South African space engineer Jessie Ndaba and company co-founder Khalid Manjoo named their satellite startup, the choice was easy: Astrofica — a hybrid of “astronomy” and “Africa” — seemed like the perfect fit. The fully Black-owned satellite tech company, based in Cape Town, specializes in assembling, manufacturing and testing satellite systems — a lucrative […]
