Google to Start Funding African Startups
CEO Sundar Pichai said his company will invest $1 billion in Africa over five years to build a subsea internet cable to support non-profits, and fund businesses. The cable, named Equiano after the Nigeria-born 18th-century abolitionist, has been in the works since 2019 when it was first announced. It will connect Africa to Europe and increase Google’s […]
Saving a Fish Species only Found in One African Lake
Lake Tanganyika is the world’s longest freshwater lake. It stretches for more than 400 miles across central Africa and provides a home for some of the planet’s most extraordinary aquatic creatures. But this remarkable refuge – and its inhabitants – are under threat. Pesticide runoffs from farms, sewage and overexploitation by collectors for the ornamental […]
The Reality of the African Green Revolution
With the passing of the United Nations’ highly contested Food Systems Summit last month, the task of “feeding the world” has taken on a newfound urgency. But one point apparently lost on the summit’s attendees is that the project of “agricultural modernisation” which many of them have supported for decades is only making food insecurity […]
Ethiopian Troops Push to Tigray
The Ethiopian government has launched a “staggering” ground offensive against rebel Tigrayan forces, according to a spokesman for the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, reigniting a devastating civil war that international humanitarian groups say imperils hundreds of thousands. TPLF spokesman Getachew Reda said in an interview that there was active fighting Monday on at least three […]
One of the Most Highly Anticipated Trials Ever to Take Place in Africa Begins
Halouné Traoré, a former comrade of pan-African icon and Burkina Faso ex-president Thomas Sankara, explains how he was the only one to survive the 1987 coup where Sankara was assassinated, along with 12 others. 34 years on, the perpetrators are finally scheduled to be tried open Monday in Ouagadougou. Traoré hopes that at the trial […]
