New Technologies Available To Solve Africa’s Energy Crisis
Africa Energy Indaba To Host Riveting Discussions And Showcase Technologies Covering Deployment Of Energy Innovations To Bridge Continental Energy Gaps Rapid advancements related to technology have certainly rendered life easier than ever before. However, such progression is driven by energy and many regions in the world are quickly running low on means to generate it. […]
AFCON 2023 Fuels 300% Rise In Revenue For Content Creators Across Africa
Newly-released Data from StarNews Mobile Delivers Latest Signal of Africa’s Rapidly Emerging Creator Economy According to new data released from StarNews Mobile, Africa’s leading video streaming platform, content creators across Africa experienced a 300% surge in revenues during the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), reaffirming the massive surge in consumption of hyper-localized content from the […]
Libya’s Oil & Gas Minister To Promote Exploration Opportunities At AEW 2024
Mohamed Aoun will return to the African Energy Week: Invest in African Energy conference this November to discuss upcoming exploration opportunities and strategies to increase production. Amid efforts to bolster investment in hydrocarbon exploration, Libya’s Minister of Oil and Gas, Mohamed Aoun, will return to the African Energy Week (AEW): Invest in African Energy conference […]
ARC Ltd. And Milliman Award Scholarships To Empower Africa’s Next Generation Of Climate Change Leaders
Five exceptional African students are set to become sustainability changemakers as the first recipients of fully funded climate change scholarships from African Risk Capacity (ARC) Limited and Milliman Inc. The Africa Scholarship Programme aims to empower the next generation of leaders to drive solutions to Africa’s climate threats. The recipients stood out among 15 finalists […]
Lessons From Rwanda: Building Systems To Protect Against Infectious Diseases And Biothreats
The past four years have highlighted significant gaps in our global health security infrastructure – while we have seen tremendous technical advances in our ability to detect and respond to pathogens, there is significant opportunity to improve the end-to-end response system. There is urgency to act. Increased trade, climate change, and urbanization all lead experts […]
African Development Bank and OCP Group provide $188 million for green investment in Morocco
$150 million from the African Development Bank, $18 million from the Canada – African Development Bank Climate Fund and $20 million from the Clean Technology Fund RABAT, Morocco, 22 February 2024, /African Media Agency/-The African Development Bank and the OCP Group signed three loan agreements in Rabat totalling $188 million to help fund the OCP […]
U.S. Investment Boosts COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturing In South Africa
The Challenge: Access to safe, effective vaccines is critical to ending the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccines help prevent serious illness, hospitalization, and death. While some countries have widescale vaccination efforts underway, the vast majority of people across the African continent have yet to receive a single shot. In fact, as of August 2021, the Africa Centres […]
A Cattle Ship Blamed for Causing a Foul Smell Engulfing Cape Town has Departed for Iraq
The Al Kuwait ship docked in the city’s harbour from Brazil on Sunday to load feed for its cargo of 19,000 cows. Residents soon began complaining of a “nauseating” stench emanating from it. The NSPCA assessed the cattle on board the livestock vessel and described conditions as “abhorrent”, including an “extreme build-up of faeces and […]
The Latest in a Long List of Legal Hurdles Facing Ruto’s Administration
Kenya’s government is being sued by the Law Society of Kenya (LSK), the country’s legal professional association, for contracting a local newspaper to solely publish and distribute government advertisements through a weekly supplement. The LSK claims the move to centralize government advertising in the newspaper, The Star, will stifle media freedom and limit public access […]
The Lafiya Sarari School was Set Up in Response to the Terror Boko Haram has Inflicted
Boko Haram has targeted schools as part of its campaign of atrocities in north-eastern Nigeria since 2010. It has carried out massacres and multiple abductions, including 2014’s killing of 59 schoolboys, the kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls in Chibok in 2014 and 101 girls in Dapchi in 2018. Established in 2017 by the Neem Foundation, a […]
