How Can Nigeria Build On The Payment Evolution Brought About By The Naira Shortage
By Mxolisi Msutwana – Chief Operating Officer at Baxi All around the world, governments are trying to encourage cashless payments. Their reasons for doing so are multiple, including expanded financial inclusion and transparency, wanting to formalise the informal economy, and to drive economic growth and innovation. Nigeria is no exception. By the end of 2022, […]
Africa’s Race To The Sun (And Other Alternatives): Who Is Winning?
Author: Shirley Webber, Coverage Head: Resources and Energy, Absa CIB One of the most emotive subjects in Africa currently is the energy transition from fossil fuels to cleaner energy, with the mining and resources sectors at the sharp end of the debate. Consider for a moment that South Africa is light years ahead of the […]
AFSIC – Investing In Africa Is Set To Host Another World-Class Gathering Of Africa-Focused Businesses
London on 9-10th October 2023 LONDON, England, 8 June 2022, /African Media Agency/- Now in its 10th year, AFSIC – Investing in Africa is set to host another world-class gathering of Africa-focused businesses, dealmakers and investors to discover and execute investment deals, network and share insights in London on 9-10th October 2023. IFC, Accion, Verdant Capital, RMB, Old Mutual, […]
3rd Edition Connected Africa – Africa’s Premier Telecom Summit Transforming To Telco’s Of The Future
After the grand success of the previous edition, the Connected Africa is back, back much bigger stronger and larger than before, themed “Transforming to Telco’s of the Future”. The 3rd Edition of Connected Africa, Africa’s premier Telecom Summit delivering holistic insight into digital infrastructure developments and trends. Organised by The International Center for Strategic Alliances […]
Interview With Anniwaa Buachie – The Making Of A Ghanaian Short Film
By SWAN Some movie scenes keep replaying in one’s mind long after one has left the cinema, and this is certainly true of Moon Over Aburi, a short film shot in Ghana that has been gaining accolades since its release earlier this year. Based on a story by the prize-winning Ghanaian-Jamaican writer and poet Kwame Dawes, the […]
Kagame Shakes Up his Cabinet
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has sacked several high-ranking military officials, a day after naming a new defence minister and army chief in a major reshuffle of the country’s security apparatus. Maj Gen Aloys Muganga, commander of the army’s mechanised division, and Brig Gen Francis Mutiganda are among 16 officers who have been dismissed. Another 228 […]
Trauma Experienced by Staff at Nairobi Facebook Hub recognised in Legal Ruling
Meta has been ordered to “provide proper medical, psychiatric and psychological care” to a group of moderators in Nairobi following a ruling in a Kenyan employment court that heard harrowing testimony about the distressing nature of their work. The instruction by judge Byram Ongaya formed part of a broader interim ruling that saw the moderators’ […]
Two Nigerian States have Reduced the Working Week to Three Days for State Employees
The move is to help them cope with increased petrol costs, following the federal government announcement to scrap fuel subsidies. Nigeria is currently struggling to control the rising cost of transportation, which is affecting many citizens. The Edo and Kwara states governments’ announcement will fuel debate in the public and private sectors about measures to […]
Dakar Moves to Quell the Diaspora
Senegal’s foreign ministry has temporarily closed its overseas consulates amid raging political tensions that have fueled attacks on its diplomatic missions in Paris, Bordeaux, Milan and New York. Deadly protests broke out last week in the Senegalese capital Dakar and other cities, following the sentencing of popular opposition leader Ousmane Sonko. Several days of rioting […]
Kenya’s Plans to Remember Victims of a Cult
Kenya will convert a vast coastal forest where the bodies of more than 250 people linked to a doomsday cult have been exhumed into a national memorial site. The discovery of mass graves in Shakahola forest, a 325-hectare bushland that lies inland from the Indian Ocean town of Malindi, has shocked Kenyans. Cult leader Paul […]
