AfricaTech Awards to spotlight the next generation of African innovators
AfricaTech Awards opens call for applications to recognize cutting-edge solutions in the climate tech, health tech, and fintech sectors PARIS, France, 08th March 2022 -/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Viva Technology and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) today announced a call for applications for the first edition of the AfricaTech Awards, a pan-African initiative developed to recognize and […]
Surge in Attacks on Aid Workers in South Sudan
Authorities Should Improve Protection, Investigate Attacks NEW YORK, USA, 07th March 2022 -/African Media Agency (AMA)/-On February 28, unidentified gunmen attacked seven staff members of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on the road outside Yei, robbed them, and burnt two MSF vehicles, forcing the aid organization to suspend operations in areas outside the city. That same day, armed […]
Aleph Hospitality signs first hotel in Rwanda
Dubai-based hotel management company to operate the MGallery hotel in Kigali and oversee the management of all facilities at the Century Park Hotel and Residences DUBAI, UAE, 4 March 2022 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- Leading independent hotel management company, Aleph Hospitality, has signed a management agreement to operate Accor’s luxury five-star MGallery hotel, as well as all […]
Don’t believe the negative hype: tech is a force for good
By Cathy Smith, Managing Director at SAP Africa JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 2nd March 2022 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- Is a dysfunctional relationship with technology keeping us from harnessing tech for the greater good? Having worked in the tech industry for over 30 years, I still get goosebumps when I consider the positive potential of technology on our […]
New report on narratives on business in Africa shows another ‘scramble for Africa’ by foreign powers is underway in international media
Analysis of 750 million stories published between 2017 and 202170% of coverage about business in Africa references foreign powers including China, the USA, Russia, France, and the UKCorruption referenced in nearly 10% of stories on business in Africa<1% of the coverage on business and Africa referenced the AfCFTA NAIROBI, Kenya, 3rd March 2022 -/African Media […]
Love all, serve all: Diverse crowd of beast benefit from weekly wet services in malakal
JUBA, South Sudan, 3rd March 2022 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/-On Saturday mornings, one particular place in Upper Nile State’s capital Malakal draws a motley crew. Sheep, goats, hens, horses, donkeys, dogs, bovine beauties and, usually, their owners, all flock here in what constitutes a loud, lively outdoor waiting room. Here, sick notes are compared, with the gossip presumably revolving around […]
Malawi President, Lazarus Chakwera, others restate commitment to quality leadership at the 10TH ALM Persons of the Year
PORTSMOUTH, United Kingdom, 1st March 2022,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The President of Malawi, Lazarus Chakwera, alongside other political, business and diplomatic leaders, have restated their commitment to quality and purposeful leadership in Africa. President Chakwera, who committed while receiving the African Leadership Person of the Year Award, called on other leaders across the continent to […]
UNOWAS and ECOWAS conclude a joint mission Guinea.
DAKAR, Senegal, 1st March 2022 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/-The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mahamat Saleh ANNADIF, Mr. Jean Claude Kassi Brou, President of the Economic Commission of West African States (ECOWAS), and Mrs. Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ghana […]
When We Tell Our Stories: Musings from AFCON 2021
By Layih Butake SENEGAL, Dakar, February 26th, 2022 -/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The Total Energies 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (CAN Total Energies 2021) took the continent by storm for a good 29 days, with the recently concluded 33rd edition acclaimed as the most widely followed in the history of the competition. Prowess, spectacle, patriotism, and frenzy, #AFCON2021 engendered […]
Women building a sustainable future: the Kenyan engineer fighting for equality
NEW YORK, USA, Le 25 Février 2022 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/-Norah Magero, a Mechanical Engineer and Renewable Energy Expert from Kenya, is helping communities adapt to the changing climate, in the face of gender discrimination. “I grew up in a society that did not value women. Our rights to education, expression, and sometimes even basic needs, […]
