Africa

Business: mPharma of Ghana has raised another $17 million and appointed an ex-CVS boss to its board

Ghanaian startup mPharma, which manages prescription drug inventory for pharmacies and their suppliers, has raised $17 million in its latest…

June 4, 2020

Politics: Justice Yet to Be Delivered One Year After Massacre in Sudan

Thousands chanted anti-military slogans Wednesday to demand justice, freedom, full civilian rule for Sudan and to call for the perpetrators…

June 4, 2020

COVID-19 protests spread to Senegal’s capital

Protestors in Dakar set tyres on fire and threw stones at security forces on Wednesday night during protests over a…

June 4, 2020

Rebels kill at least 16 civilians in DR Congo

At least 16 people, including women and children, were killed by militiamen late Wednesday in an attack in northeastern Democratic…

June 4, 2020

Kenya: Lockdown poverty exposes African sex workers to more violence

Peninah Wanjiru wasn’t really one to take chances. Her friends said the 35-year-old Kenyan sex worker was careful how she…

June 4, 2020

News: Nigeria stands by AfDB president Akinwunmi Adesina

President of the African Development Bank AFDB Akinwunmi Adesina is in the news! A brewing crisis of succession at the…

June 3, 2020

Farmers, miners in Ivory Coast embrace use of drones

Farmers and miners in Ivory Coast are embracing the use of drones for light work. Until recently, stock checks and…

June 3, 2020

Health: Uganda’s Coronavirus cases rise to 507

Uganda on Wednesday said 18 more people had tested positive for Covid-19 as the country’s tally of confirmed cases rose…

June 3, 2020

Breaking: Zimbabwe tightens lockdown as virus cases spike

Zimbabwe has tightened restrictions in a bid to curtail spread of the coronavirus as cases spike. On Tuesday, security forces…

June 3, 2020

COVID-19: Kenyan boy who made hand-washing machine awarded

A nine-year-old Kenyan boy who made a wooden hand-washing machine to help curb the spread of coronavirus has told the…

June 3, 2020

Ethiopia receives Chinese donation of 520,000 masks, medical supplies

Ethiopia received on Tuesday the donation of 520,000 masks from five Chinese business companies and Dongguan Municipal government. The COVID-19…

June 3, 2020

Bleak future as Tullow’s oil pilot in Kenya expires

Tullow Kenya, together with its Joint Venture Partners, Total and Africa Oil has announced the expiry of the Early Oil…

June 3, 2020

Primary, secondary schools reopen in Cameroon

More than two months after suspension of classes due to the coronavirus in Cameroon, primary and secondary school students returned…

June 2, 2020

Nigerian artist uses graffiti to inspire youth

A Nigerian artist is aiming to inspire young people in his vicinity through graffiti art in a Lagos suburb. Fawas…

June 2, 2020

Ethiopia coronavirus: 131m masks needed, active cases pass 1,000

Ethiopia is one of East / Horn of Africa’s least impacted nations as compared to rate of COVID-19 case growth…

June 2, 2020

Business: Standard Bank sheds 5% on flagged profit decline

The Standard Bank Group share price declined by more than 5 percent on the JSE on Monday after the group…

June 2, 2020

More escape from quarantine centres in Zimbabwe

TWO more returnees escaped from Covid-19 quarantine centres in Mashonaland East and Matabeleland North provinces on Tuesday last week as…

June 2, 2020

Zimbabwe: Covid-19 hits border prisons

Border prisons at Beitbridge and Plumtree have been sealed off after six people — four inmates and two prison officers…

June 2, 2020

BREAKING: Buhari finally reopens churches, mosques

The Nigerian Government has finally lifted the ban on religious gathering across the country. The ban on religious gatherings had…

June 2, 2020

Botswana coronavirus: Prez tests negative again, schools reopening

Botswana remains one of Africa’s least impacted countries, one of a handful with less than 100 cases of COVID-19. Government…

June 1, 2020

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