Will Congolese Rumba Join The Unesco World Heritage List?
The Democratic Republic of Congo has given the official kick-off to a campaign to put Congolese rumba, one of the most popular forms of music in Africa, on Unesco’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list. The bid is being pushed by both the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and its smaller neighbour, the Republic of Congo, also called Congo-Brazzaville. Culture […]
Are Young Business Owners Key To New Growth Across Africa?
According to the African Economic Outlook, GDP in Africa is projected to grow by 3.4 percent in 2021, after contracting by 2.1 percent in 2020 following the global COVID-19 pandemic. Sub-Saharan Africa, with its young and growing population, is set to lead this growth for the continent. Thanks to digital solutions and access to global […]
Between Horror And Hope In The Villages Of Ituri
By Elena L. Pasquini “We have buried twenty-eight people. I have seen them with my own eyes. We also found three bodies in the fields and buried them too. I can show them to you. It’s not far from here. We buried them there.” The man points to the hills. He doesn’t want to show his […]
Creating Farming Land in Burkina Faso’s Deserted Areas
A Belgian-African company operating in Burkina Faso is planting trees to help curb desertification and open up lands for grazing cattle and farming. The project by the company, Hommes et Terre (Men and Earth), is taking place in Burkina Faso’s dangerous conflict zones where expanding desertification is a cause for strife. SOURCE: VOA
One of the Biggest Corruption Scandals in Mozambique Goes to Trial
The trial of the “hidden debt”, which has plunged the country into a serious financial crisis and is embarrassing even the top of the state, opened on Monday in a Maputo prison. Nineteen people accused of blackmail, forgery, embezzlement and money laundering, for amounts of several million euros, are to be heard in hearings scheduled […]
Egyptian Ed-tech Firm Spreads its Wings
EYouth, which provides online interactive educational programmes for individuals aged between 18 and 35, is targeting international growth after seeing more than 750,000 people complete its courses so far. Founded in 2016 and taken online in 2018, EYouth designs and builds its own online training courses aimed at helping young people develop their careers and […]
Algiers Will Not Be Doing Business with Rabat Anymore
Algeria has announced it will not renew a gas-supply agreement with Morocco days after severing diplomatic relations with its North African neighbour. Rabat is currently taking 900,000 cubic metres per year of Algerian natural gas from the Maghreb-Europe pipeline, which runs from Algeria to Spain and Portugal through Moroccan territories. The contract with Morocco expires […]
Software Engineer Omotayo Madein Created a Path for Herself where None Existed
Now her circuitous, five-year journey is eventually starting to pay off. It was tinkering with apps and websites on her family’s desktop computer as a child that first spurred Omotayo Madein’s fascination for software. At secondary school, computer science was one of the subjects she preferred. But it was only when she began applying to […]
Promoting Rwanda as a Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions Destination
After staging the Basketball Africa League (BAL) under tricky circumstances, Rwanda is hoping to capitalise on its success by advertising itself as one of Africa’s major destinations for international sports events, according to minister of sports Aurore Mimosa Munyangaju. Yet with Covid-19 limiting the potential for large crowds – BAL games had only a small […]
Understanding South Africa’s Unemployment Figures
Unemployment in South Africa, one of the biggest economies on the continent, has hit record levels, with young people and women the hardest hit. The new data reveal that about 7.8 million South Africans were out of a job in the second quarter of this year, the highest rate since 2008, according to Statistics South […]
