Restart Africa Launches a Fund for Green Entrepreneurs
Rwanda’s Munyax Eco and Zambia’s WidEnergy have secured investment from female-focused fund Opens-LCEF, an impact investor that provides catalytic capital to early-stage social enterprises in emerging markets. Open-LCEF has a portfolio of 17 investments across 11 countries, seven of which operate in East Africa, and has established the Restart East Africa initiative to address the […]
Berlin and Windhoek Talk Reparations
Germany said on Monday it is close to an agreement with Namibia for the mass murder of tens of thousands of indigenous people when it was the colonial ruler over a century ago. Germany opened talks with the Namibian government in 2015 on a “future-oriented reappraisal of German colonial rule.” It has signaled its readiness […]
South Africans Seek Justice for Citizen Killed by US Police
Mr. Lindani Myeni, 29, died in Honolulu after he was shot in a confrontation with the police outside a suburban house he had inexplicably entered, and then left, on the night of April 14. In the United States, this police shooting of a Black man they described as a burglary suspect did not make national […]
A Weekend of African Basketball To become a Permanent Fixture
Africa’s top basketball club sides faced off this Sunday in the Rwandan capital Kigali in a new professional competition designed to promote the sport, drive economic growth and unearth the best up and coming talent. Such aims are part of the reason for the involvement of the NBA, which is helping to organise a league […]
The Impact on Education After Rwanda’s Violent Conflict
The research involved 23 life story interviews with Rwandans and former refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda who had been forced out of school. From these, I established that some learners had since managed to achieve their second chance at education. I also realised that many of them had lost education a […]
Leaving Sierra Leone’s Coastline Bare
A $55m deal struck by the government of Sierra Leone with China to build an industrial fishing harbour on 100 hectares (250 acres) of beach and protected rainforest has been criticised as “a catastrophic human and ecological disaster” by conservationists, landowners and rights groups. The gold and black sands of Black Johnson beach fringe the […]
Drawing the Line against Africa’s Deadliest Creature
When Laolu Senbanjo received an email requesting him to work with Beyoncé, he thought it was a scam. The artist, who now goes by Laolu NYC or simply Laolu, has a style that stands out mostly because of his willingness to use anything, or anyone, as a canvas. Whether it’s sneakers for Nike, bottles for […]
Ethiopia has Delayed its National Election Again
This after some opposition parties said they would not take part and as a conflict in the country’s Tigray region means no vote is being held there. Birtukan Mideksa, chairperson of The National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE), “indicated that delays in opening polling stations and voter registration have pushed the voting day”. Mideksa cited […]
Khartoum Gets a Debt Settlement from France
France announced Monday that it will grant Sudan a $1.5 billion loan to help the North African country pay off its debt to the International Monetary Fund. Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire made the announcement in Paris at the start of an international summit hosted by President Emmanuel Macron. The loan aimed at helping Sudan […]
