Cameroonian Company Creates a Veterinary Counseling App
It’s designed to help farmers and ranchers who live far away from veterinarians to detect animal diseases and give them guidance online. Cameroonian rabbit breeder Thierry Bayabon lost three-quarters of his stock to disease a few months ago. Like most small-scale Cameroonian farmers, he was not familiar with diseases that affect animals. To help breeders like […]
How Showering Meteorites Scattered Across the Kalahari Desert
Astronomers have reconstructed the 22m-year-long voyage of an asteroid that hurtled through the solar system and exploded over Botswana. It is the first time scientists have traced showering space rock to its source – in this case Vesta, one of largest bodies in the asteroid belt that circles the sun between Jupiter and Mars. The […]
The Story of an African Startup that Made it Big
Founded in 2013 by Justin Drennan, Ryan Drennan, and Terence Murphy, Parcelninja is an e-commerce enabler that offers South African online shops an affordable outsourcing solution for all their fulfilment needs. The startup’s platform integrates with most existing e-commerce engines, offering smart product warehousing, picking and packing, courier optimisation, and real-time reporting. Disrupt Africa reported […]
Egyptology is Having a Big Moment
Archaeologists announced this month that they had unearthed an ancient Pharaonic city near the southern city of Luxor that dated back more than 3,400 years. The discovery came just days after 22 royal mummies were moved to a new museum in a lavish spectacle that was broadcast worldwide. In addition, the discovery of 59 beautifully […]
‘My Octopus Teacher’ Won an Oscar in the Best Documentary Feature Category
The Netflix documentary is set in the False Bay area in Cape Town and focuses on the intimate relationship between independent filmmaker Craig Foster and an octopus, who meet and bond in the kelp forest of the Atlantic Ocean. South Africa has an abundance of marine biodiversity, is host to many endemic species and thousands […]
Kenya is Poised to Have its First Female Chief Justice
The Court of Appeal Judge Martha Koome emerged as the best candidate out of ten applicants for the position. Her selection was announced by Kenya’s Judicial Service Commission on Tuesday, April 27. Her name has been forwarded to President Uhuru Kenyatta for approval, before being submitted to the parliament for vetting. The selection process was […]
South Africans Disillusioned by Promises of Freedom
Twenty seven years into democracy, South African politics is still for the few. And those who complain the most have the least to grumble about. Since South Africa is highly unequal and remains divided into insiders and outsiders – those who benefit from the market economy and those who can’t – we might expect its […]
Chad’s Capital Comes to a Halt in Protest of New Rule
At least five people have been killed in Chad as demonstrators took to the streets demanding a return to civilian rule after the military took control following President Idriss Deby’s death last week. Tuesday’s unrest underscores the tense atmosphere in Chad following Deby’s death, with the military transition already struggling to win over a population […]
Kidnapping has become One of the Major Security Challenges in Nigeria
Figures are hard to come by due to under-reporting, but a study by the Nigeria Security Tracker (NST), which maps political violence in the country, states that there have been more than 200 kidnapping incidents so far this year with at least 2,043 victims. There were an estimated 437 kidnapping incidents with 2,879 victims for […]
Some Big Asks from African Leaders to US Secretary of State
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has called on the US to move its Africom military headquarters to the continent from Germany. He made the request during US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s online “virtual visit” to Africa, a substitute for an in-person visit that didn’t happened because of coronavirus restrictions. Considering the growing security challenges in […]
