Supporting African Tech Startups through their Crucial Growth Phases
The Google for Startups Accelerator is a three-month online programme that includes three intensive virtual training bootcamps, mentorship, and Google product support. For the second year in a row, the programme is virtual, and it kicks off June 21 with 15 startups from across the continent participating. Six of the selected companies are from Nigeria, […]
Yaoundé Praised for its Treatment of Refugees
Marking World Refugee Day, June 20, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the UNHCR, is calling on host communities to show more sympathy and love for those fleeing crises in their home country and who are now threatened by COVID-19. The UNHCR says Cameroon is home to close to half a million refugees, mostly from Nigeria […]
Doctors Come to the Aid of Zimbabwean Boy Mauled by Hyena
Surgeons in South Africa are preparing to reconstruct the face of Nine-year-old Rodwell Nkomazana who was mauled by a hyena during a night time church service in Zimbabwe. Doctors in one of the city’s main public hospitals stabilised his condition, but lacked the resources to fully repair the boy’s ravaged face. His desperate mother reached […]
The Key to Seed Dispersal across Africa is Under Threat
Plans to create a huge commercial farm next to a national park in Zambia could have a “catastrophic” impact on wildlife, conservationists have warned, threatening vital habitat for bats undertaking the world’s biggest mammal migration. Every October, about 10 million straw-coloured fruit bats descend on the evergreen swamps of Kasanka national park in central Zambia […]
South Africa is Set to Host a “Technology Transfer Hub” for Coronavirus Vaccines
President Cyril Ramaphosa was joined by French President Emmanuel Macron and World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a media briefing to announce how the facility would help to scale up production know-how in Africa’s worst-hit nation. The WHO has previously set up such hubs, which provide know-how and training to local manufacturers, to boost global […]
Could this be the Worst Attempt at Free and Fair Polls in Ethiopian History?
Ethiopians headed to the polls Monday for a controversial election being carried out amid an ongoing conflict and a raging humanitarian crisis in the country’s northern Tigray region. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is facing his first real test at the ballot in what is Ethiopia’s first multi-party election in 16 years, albeit one riven with […]
