The president of Seychelles, Wavel Ramkalawan, was among the first people vaccinated. The vaccine used will be the Chinese vaccine developed by the public laboratory…
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The First African to join Netflix’s Highest Decision- making Body
Zimbabwean businessperson Strive Masiyiwa has been appointed to Netflix’s board of directors, in another indication of the global online streaming giant’s investment in Africa. Masiyiwa…
East African Innovators Adapt to New Educational Needs
Ugandan ed-tech startup KAINO has developed a homeschooling app for early childhood development in response to the closure of schools in the country as a result…
How to Increase African Authorship on Climate Change
Biometeorological research is particularly important in Africa. The continent is projected to experience temperature increases bigger than the global mean throughout the 21st century. Changes…
Calling All African Small Businesses
Virtual summit serving SMEs to access resources to grow their businesses with the United States Africa.com is convening thousands of leaders of African businesses, and…
‘My African name stopped me getting jobs’
Lawyer and diversity campaigner Funke Abimbola says she suffered “bias” when she tried to get into the profession. About a third of FTSE 100 companies…
A New West African Currency to be Launched Later
A plan to launch a new currency to replace the CFA franc used by several countries in West Africa may not happen for at least…
African Parliamentarians Alongside Their Populations
Every year, rainy season in Africa rhyme with drinking polluted waters, wading in stagnant feces-infested rainwaters and sleeping in unhealthy conditions. Yet we all have…
West African mediators arrive in Mali to push for coup reversal
ECOWAS delegation visiting Bamako to meet military coup leaders as well as overthrown President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. A delegation of West African leaders has arrived…
South African police recapture all prisoners after mass escape
Sixty-eight prisoners broke out on Friday during routine physical exercise at the facility north of Cape Town. All 68 prisoners that escaped from a jail…