Dancing The Twist In Bamako
RUN EXTENDED TO MARCH 16 AT FILM FORUM, NYC! OPENS AT LAEMMLE GLENDALE ON MARCH 17!Laemmle Cinema starting on 3/17 ADDITIONAL SCREENINGSAFI Silver Theater on 3/24 & 3/29Focus on French Cinema on 4/20Aperture Cinema starting on 4/24 The 1960s were a time of change everywhere, and that includes Bamako, the capital city of Mali, a nation only recently independent […]
Victoria Falls: Where Angels Gaze And Moonbows Hide
An awe-inspiring experience to be exact. Standing at the edge of this – the largest waterfall in the world – would be to witness the incredible scene of 500 million litres of water cascading down the 1 708-metre wide and 108-metre high drop every minute. “It’s not difficult to see and feel why the Falls […]
News Alert: Situation In Mozambique Critical As Cyclone Freddy Displaces Thousands
Nearly 4 000 people are isolated in Mozambique’s Mabote area, cut off by flooding after Cyclone Freddy hit the Southern African country on 24 February 2023, says ForAfrika’s country manager for Mozambique, Arsenio Mucavele. Cyclone Freddy is expected to return to Mozambique at the weekend. Mucavele and other ForAfrika staff flew into Mabote district on […]
Technology Is A Game-changer For Empowering IFA’s In Volatile Markets
Author: Adam Reeves, Absa Index Solutions, Absa CIB It is not an easy time to be an Independent Financial Advisor. 2022 was the worst year on record since the Global Financial Crisis as a combination of rising interest rates, surging inflation, COVID-19 lockdowns in China and geopolitical tension in Ukraine negatively impacted investor portfolios. Independent […]
Metaverse Helps Bring Water To Africa
Africarare, Africa’s First Metaverse and Innovation Africa partner to bring clean water to Africa In a historic move, Africarare, Africa’s first metaverse, has joined forces with non-profit organisation Innovation Africa to help deliver clean drinking water to people across the continent. The partnership seeks to empower rural communities by providing access to clean water and light, using Israeli solar, […]
Getting To Know The Nedbank IMC Speakers Up Close And Personal
With more than 20 thought leaders converging in person at this year’s hybrid Nedbank Integrated Marketing Council (IMC) conference taking place on 15 September, it’s going to be personal. From walking the sometimes-lonely journey of an entrepreneur to guiding a team or leading a company, the 2023 cohort of speakers will each provide their unique insight […]
Nairobi’s Grand Strategy to Vaccinate against Malaria
Kenya this week rolled out a campaign using the world’s first vaccine against malaria to inoculate more than 400,000 children against the mosquito-borne disease. Health officials say malaria kills more than 12,000 Kenyans each year and more than half a million people in sub-Saharan Africa, most of them children. The mass vaccination campaign comes as […]
Mozambique Set for another Weather Battering
Deadly Tropical Cyclone Freddy is set to break records for the longest-lasting storm of its kind as it appears on course to hit Mozambique for a second time, more than two weeks after the first. The cyclone has already caused immense damage in Mozambique and Madagascar, killing at least 21 people across both countries and […]
Nigeria Postpones Saturday’s Crucial State Elections
The electoral commission emerged from an hours-long meeting on Wednesday night to announce it was pushing back polls to elect powerful state governors by a week. The commission attributed the delay to problems with reconfiguring a digital voting system that had been the source of rancour and international criticism after it failed to perform as […]
12 African Countries that are Struggling to Feed Themselves
The number of pregnant and breastfeeding women suffering from acute malnutrition has soared by 25 percent across 12 countries in Africa and Asia since 2020, according to a UNICEF report. In the 12 countries – Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Yemen – more than one billion […]
