Kenya’s leading telecom firm Safaricom and South Africa’s Vodacom said on Monday that they have completed the acquisition of the popular mobile money platform M-Pesa… Read More »Africa’s Leading Mobile Money Providers Seal the Deal
A valley dam that authorities in Rwanda say could contain about 30,000 bodies has been discovered more than a quarter-century after the country’s genocide in… Read More »Rwanda Makes a Shocking Discovery of the Past
From Ariel’s powerful #ShareTheLoad engagement to Dove showing us how to represent women more inclusively, there are some fantastic examples of brands actively shifting the… Read More »The Dawn of a New Dimension: Including Women by Design
The country’s interior ministry has sent a police robot to patrol the streets of the capital and enforce a lockdown imposed last month as the… Read More »Tunisia Uses Bots to Enforce Curfews
Mahmoud Jibril, who was Libya’s interim prime minister during the country’s uprising against longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi, has died from coronavirus. Jibril, 68, served seven… Read More »The Man behind Gaddafi’s Ousting Succumbs to Coronavirus
According to police records, nearly 2,000 people were arrested during the first week for defying lockdown laws. Scores of people have been rounded up and… Read More »Zimbabwe Enters Second Week of Lockdown with Numerous Complaints
Protesters in Ivory Coast’s commercial capital, Abidjan, have destroyed a coronavirus centre that was being built in the district of Yopougon. Residents said it was… Read More »Ivorians Meet COVID-19 Facilities With Fire
African footballers Didier Drogba and Samuel Eto’o have slammed suggestions made by two France-based doctors that Africa should be used as a test site for… Read More »The Interview that Sparked #AfricansAreNotLabRats
The Western Cape government has allocated an additional R53 million in funding for emergency food relief programmes that will run across the province. Provincial Treasury… Read More »WC Approves Additional R53 Million Towards Food Relief
State-owned entities and other research bodies are teaming up to produce South Africa’s own mechanical ventilators. Under Project Sabela, arms producer Denel is lending its… Read More »Denel Among SOEs Lending Expertise