Food Truck Changes Joburgers Shopping Experience
Inner city residents of Johannesburg in South Africa have been given access to a new kind of shopping experience: a zero-waste mobile grocery store. The bus, called Skhaftin after the local slang word for ‘lunchbox’, sells fresh and dry foods such as rice, beans and lentils, as it makes its way around the city. Shoppers bring their […]
How Africans Can Monetize their Content Away from Traditional Channels
Ugandan startup eebo has developed a video platform to help creators of movies, music or educational content to get discovered and monetise.The eebo story began in May 2019, when Austrian Agnes Aistleitner arrived in Uganda and was “perplexed” about the high cost of internet in the region, and knew instantly she had stumbled upon a […]
The Neo-colonial and Imperial Roots of Ghana’s Road Transport Misery
Much has been written about the crashes, congestion and pollution on Ghana’s roads. Road injury is among the top 10 causes of deaths in the country. One report suggests that about $230 million is spent annually on emergency and trauma care associated with motor accidents alone. The heavy traffic jams don’t just undermine productivity, they […]
How The Biggest North African Firms are Faring
The biggest listed North African companies enjoyed strong gains compared to 2020. The top three are based in Morocco and listed on the dynamic Casablanca Stock Exchange, where the MASI Free Float Index climbed 22% and the Dirham currency gained 11% against the dollar. Maroc Telecom reflected the gains as its market capitalisation rose from […]
Congolese Gold-mining Town of Kamituga Holds Vast Wealth and Crippling Deprivation
Efforts to introduce greater transparency into DRC’s mining sector have seen minimal progress in a trade that enriches individuals and companies far from Kamituga’s murky rivers and hills. With little political will to drive real change, it seems the situation for those living on some of the richest soil in the world will remain precarious. […]
Nigeria’s High Prices for Cement are Part of a Continent-wide Trend
Nigerian property developer Olawale Ayilara is building housing estates in the affluent Lekki district of mega city Lagos, the country’s commercial engine. But the cost of the project is expanding rapidly due to the increased price of cement. The price of a 50 kg (110 lb) bag of cement rose by a third, from 2,500 […]
Email Threads Suggest WHO Knew about Sexual Abuse Claims in the DRC
When Shekinah was working as a nurse’s aide in northeastern Congo in January 2019, she said, she was offered a job from a World Health Organization doctor at double her salary — in exchange for sex. She said the Canadian doctor, Boubacar Diallo, who often bragged about his connections to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, […]
A Platform to Uplift and Empower Nurses in Africa
Afrinurse is a digital platform that provides nurses in Africa with access to mental health tools supplemented by a booking portal that connects nurses to psychologists and other healthcare professionals online. In addition, Afrinurse has an educational element to it as nurses are able to access informational videos which provide insight into the management of […]
Seychelles Sees Rising Cases Even after Mass Vaccination Drive
The World Health Organization (WHO) says it is reviewing coronavirus data from Seychelles after the country’s health ministry said more than a third of people who tested positive for COVID-19 in the past week had been fully vaccinated. The ministry and the WHO stressed on Tuesday that the majority of those who tested positive had […]
