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Anti-apartheid activist Denis Goldberg has died at his home near Cape Town, aged 87. Goldberg was a prominent member of the ruling African National Congress and stood trial alongside Nelson Mandela. He spent 22 years in prison for his involvement with the ANC’s fight against apartheid, the racist system of oppression imposed by the white […]

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At first it looks like a cute Twitter picture to cheer us up in these uncertain times. But as the man sharing the image of his 10-month-old daughter tied to his back during an online meeting was Sierra Leone’s education minister, the conversation turned to gender roles. David Moinina Sengeh said he wanted to set […]

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There’s been particular interest in the influence of prominent Pentecostal pastors on public health messaging. Some have expressed concern about the possible consequences of their invocations of spiritual warfare. Researchers have examined how idioms of (spiritual) warfare have been deployed in response to the coronavirus pandemic and wish to bring a broader perspective to recent […]

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Aerial footage showed thousands of people queuing for miles down a dirt road in South Africa for charity food aid meant to relieve hunger caused by the coronavirus lockdown. The images from the neighbouring slums of Mooiplaas and Spruit, on the outskirts of the capital Pretoria, show the extent of need that South Africa’s economic […]

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Interior Minister Fred Matiangi said the restrictions apply to the Dadaab camp in eastern Kenya, home to 217 000 people, and the Kakuma camp in north-western Kenya, home to 190 000 people. Kenya, which has recorded 384 coronavirus cases to date, has yet to report any infections in the two camps, which house refugees from […]

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With substandard medicines already in wide circulation, fears are growing that coronavirus could create a lethal ‘parallel crisis’. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that one in 10 medical products circulating in low- and middle-income countries are either substandard or fake, which is both dangerous and a waste of precious family money. Various academic studies […]

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The World Bank expects sub-Saharan Africa to see a significant drop in migrant remittance inflows in 2020, much more than last year’s slight decline of 0.5 percent, due to the coronavirus pandemic. From $48 billion in 2019, remittance flows to the region are forecast to decline by 23.1 percent to reach $37 billion this year, […]

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Aviation Minister Joseph Kofi Adda announced that domestic flights in Ghana will resume from Friday, May 1, following three weeks of lockdown measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease. Authorities added that precautionary measures, such as safe distancing between passengers, will be in place to ensure the safety of passengers and operators. Health […]

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Nigerian agri-tech startup Farmcrowdy has ventured into the e-commerce space with the launch of Farmcrowdy Foods, a one-stop digital marketplace that allows consumers to conveniently purchase highly affordable fresh food products from the comfort of their homes. Formed in 2016, the Farmcrowdy platform connects small scale farmers across Nigeria with access to finance sourced from […]

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The global financial services company and Kenyan telecom Safaricom have announced a partnership on payments and tech. The arrangement opens to M-Pesa’s own extensive financial services network in East Africa, Visa’s global merchant and card network across 200 countries. The two companies will also collaborate “on development of products that will support digital payments for […]

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With SAA downed by debt and revenue loss, the discussion has moved on to finding about R2.2-billion for severance packages — and possibly a new airline emerging from the state-owned airline’s ashes. Airlines around the world have been hit hard by travel restrictions put in place to contain the spread of Covid-19. SAA’s planes have […]

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While tackling the Coronavirus pandemic has grabbed global attention, a new crisis that could claim a lot more lives is brewing in Africa: massive locust invasions. Billions of desert locusts are ravaging countries all across East Africa, including Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, and Djibouti. It has been reported that their numbers are […]

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