Omnichannel Adoption Is Set To Drive The New Ecommerce Experience
By Mayen Warrie, Key Account Executive at Infobip Nigeria Market studies show that the recent COVID-19 pandemic served as a significant catalyst for ecommerce adoption among retail customers across the globe, with a vast majority of shoppers moving their spending online. In fact, the IDC Worldwide COVID-19 Impact on IT Spending Survey found that online shopping increased […]
ATU And ICT Ministers Underscore Importance Of A Digital Economy For Africa’s Resilient Growth
The African Telecommunications Union (ATU) held a ministerial forum on Day 0 of AfricaCom 2022, bringing together participants from Malawi, Namibia, Uganda, and Zambia. The session focused on methods to engineer a new sense of hope for Africa’s digital economy journey. Under the theme ‘Rise Stronger with Digital Economy: New Paths towards a Resilient Recovery […]
Mayors To COP27 Leaders: Support And Learn From Impactful City Climate Action
Mayors from around the world have a clear message for global leaders attending the 27th United Nations Climate Change conference (COP27): The best way to protect people everywhere from rising prices, polluted air and extreme weather, and to secure good jobs in fairer societies, is to invest in cleaner, greener cities, not fossil fuels. Current […]
ForAfrika And Partners Bring Back Smiles To Flood-hit Kwazulu-Natal
A box of necessities helps to relieve the suffering, but long-term, sustainable projects are needed in these areas By Nelisiwe Makhubu A few months after catastrophic floods hit the coastal regions of the KwaZulu-Natal province, families are still struggling to piece their lives back together. ForAfrika and partners worked together to bring some relief to […]
Precision Air crash: Death Toll rises to 19
Tanzanian authorities have released the names of the 19 people killed in the Precision Air plane crash on Sunday, November 6. The plane, PW 494 -5H-PWF, was flying from Dar es Salaam to Mwanza via Bukoba when it crashed into Lake Victoria in the early hours of Sunday. It was carrying 43 passengers and crew. […]
Cop27: Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Pitches $18 Billion Plan for Energy Transition
Tanzanian President Samia Hassan will present a $18 billion plan to build renewable energy generation in southern Africa at a meeting in Egypt, as African leaders seek to increase climate finance in the region.Tanzanian Energy Minister January Makamba said in an interview that the proposal would increase generation by about 8.4 gigatonnes from sources such […]
Nigeria Switches On Its First Ever Real Time Election Tracker For Upcoming Polls
Nigerians will vote in February to choose the successor to President Muhammadu Buhari, whose second and final four-year term ends in May.The race is primarily between three frontrunners: Buhari’s All Progressives Congress’s Bola Tinubu, the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party’s Atiku Abubakar, and Peter Obi, a former Labour Party state governor. In 2019, Stears, a […]
113m People to Relocate Within Africa By 2050 Due To Climate Change
Even if the most ambitious temperature ceiling is met, adapting to a world that is warmer than today will be a massive undertaking. Climate change is causing millions of Africans to be uprooted or trapped in their current locations.Unfortunately, the world has made little progress in understanding what it takes to adapt to life on […]
Ghanaians Protest as Inflation Worsens
In Ghana, consumer inflation reached 37 percent in September, while the cedi currency has lost more than 40 percent of its value this year.Hundreds of protesters marched through Ghana’s capital, Accra, calling for President Nana Akufo-resignation Addo’s amid an economic crisis that has seen fuel and food prices reach record highs.On Saturday, a crowd of […]
Senator Ike Ekweremadu of Nigeria Will Face Charges of Organ Harvesting
A judge has announced that Nigeria’s former deputy Senate president will stand trial in the United Kingdom in January for alleged organ harvesting. Ike Ekweremadu, 60, is accused of bringing a man from Nigeria to have a kidney removed with his wife, Beatrice, 56, their daughter, Sonia, 25, and a doctor. The 21-year-old man is […]
