The Flytime Group along with Flutterwave, Africa’s leading payments technology company, will host this year’s edition of Flytime Fest 2022, which is scheduled to feature Wizkid and Asake. Music lovers across Nigeria will witness something great this December. Asake is set to headline Day 2 of the event on 22 December. Wizkid will headline Day […]
Member nations across the Commonwealth are eager to see corporations play a bigger role in the fight against climate change in light of the growing climatic uncertainties and rising financial needs for climate adaptation and mitigation. The comment was delivered at a formal side event that the Commonwealth Secretariat, the governments of Saint Lucia, Namibia, […]
In the middle of a political and financial crisis, the country of Tunisia received a donation of one hundred million euros from the European Union on Monday. According to a statement from the European Union office in Tunisia, the goal of the EU assistance program is to “support efforts to get the economy back on […]
Saturday marked the day the parties to the conflict in Ethiopia reached an agreement on a peace path (Nov 12). In Nairobi, Kenya, the Head of the Tigray Forces and the Chief of Staff of the Ethiopian Armed Forces signed an agreement that, according to them, demands disengagement from all forms of military action. In […]
Ballon d’Or runner-up Despite a recent injury, Sadio Mane was included in Senegal coach Aliou Cisse’s World Cup roster on Friday. Senegal’s 2002 World Cup captain Cisse expressed optimism that the Bayern Munich attacker’s condition will improve in the coming weeks and stated he was “very optimistic” that no surgery would be necessary for the […]
Internet in South Africa could soon be 20 per cent cheaper with the help of Equiano subsea internet cable, according to Google. The Equiano subsea internet cable landed in South Africa in early August. Earlier, it landed in Togo, Nigeria and Namibia. The Equiano subsea internet cable, stretching 15,000 km from Portugal to South Africa […]
Joe Biden, the President of the United States, arrived in Egypt on Friday for a global climate meeting with a massive domestic investment in tow. It is likely that he will be questioned about the extent to which the United States is willing to go in order to get other major greenhouse gas emitters on […]
The newly amended Employment Equity (EE) Act, which gives the employment and labour minister the authority to regulate sector-specific EE targets and compliance requirements, has the potential to have a significant impact on businesses in South Africa, according to legal experts at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr (CDH). The newly revised EE Act will go into effect […]
With the recent development in the telecommunication and telephone industry, you can know who called you in South Africa. Nowadays, all android smartphones or Apple phones have caller ID embedded in it. When you receive a call, the caller ID of that person is shown on the mobile screen. How to check who called me […]
The powerful amapiano pair known as Scorpion Kings, DJ Maphorisa and Kabza De Small, have announced that they will be touring around South Africa in December, January, and February as part of the most recent iteration of their “Scorpion Kings Live” event brand. The first “Scorpion Kings Live” performance took place in July in Pretoria‘s […]
According to a recent study, 23% of African firms were impacted by drought over the past year, and 39% by floods. The British International Investment’s Emerging Economies Climate Report 2022 noted that drought and water stress were the most significant in terms of worries about the physical hazards to African companies. A wide range of […]
France and Germany have put up 600 million euros to help South Africa change its energy system. This is part of a plan to invest 98 billion dollars that was approved at COP 27 in Egypt. “South Africa, France, and Germany have signed loan agreements so that France and Germany will each give South Africa […]
Cricket South Africa has announced the fixture for the South Africa 20 league. Johannesburg’s Wanderers Stadium will host the summit clash on February 11, 2023. The schedule includes an eight-day break to accommodate the one-day series against world champions England early next year, which is part of the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) World Cup Super […]
Nearly 100 heads of state and government are getting together in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh for a two-day meeting. They will be asked to reduce emissions even more and give money to developing countries that have already been destroyed by the effects of rising temperatures. There are a lot of other problems, like […]
The 2022 Africa Tech Festival will once again be attended by Cassava Technologies (www.CassavaTechnologies.com). The company will showcase its goods and services to partners and other interested parties during this year’s Africa Tech Week, which will take place at the Cape Town International Convention Center from November 7–11, 2022. The largest technology conference on the […]
On Sunday, a passenger plane carrying 43 people lost control and crashed into Tanzania’s Lake Victoria as it was approaching the town of Bukoba in the country’s northwest region. The weather is being highlighted as the cause of the accident. On the journey from the country’s economic center, Dar-es Salaam, to the town of Bukoba, […]
At the Wakanda Forever premiere in London, cameras flashed as the cast of the eagerly awaited continuation of Marvel’s Black Panther walked the red carpet. Black Panther, an international phenomenon that was released in 2018 and praised as a landmark for racial diversity in Hollywood, is a fictitious African nation set in Wakanda. It was […]
In the midst of escalating violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the foreign ministers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda convened at the Angolan president’s residence on Saturday for a new round of diplomatic discussions. As the last few months have shown, relations between the DRC and Rwanda are getting […]
Tanzania and China signed 15 agreements to foster bilateral trade relations between the two countries. The agreements were signed as part of the agendas during the three-day visit of the President of Tanzania, Samia Suluhu Hassan, to China. The State House spokesperson Zuhura Yunus noted that the deal primarily focused on avocado transportation, expansion of […]
In a statement released on Friday, the World Bank said that South Africa, a country that puts out a lot of greenhouse gases and is having trouble switching to a more sustainable energy system, had been given $497 million to change one of its older coal-fired power plants. South Africa, the leading industrial power on […]