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    Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile Veronika Haulenga

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Africa

Africa’s mobility startups dethrone fintechs, scale new heights

    By Conrad Onyango, bird story agency   Africa’s mobility startups are having a moment. For the first time, these small businesses in transport and logistics have dethroned Fintechs in attracting the most investor funding on the continent. In another historic first, mobility startups are beginning to explore cross-border rental trips as they look to capitalize on growing intra-Africa tourism fuelled by the removal of visa requirements by some […]

todayAugust 22, 2024 14

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DRC adds new investor to power its deepwater port ambitions

    By Bonface Orucho, bird story agency   The Port of Banana project, a deepwater project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has gained fresh momentum with the addition of a new investor, sparking renewed optimism for the port's long-awaited completion. The British International Investment has committed up to US$35 million alongside DP World for the strategic project expected to become a key driver of trade and economic […]

todayAugust 22, 2024 20

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Africa’s off-grid solar sector is electrifying global investors

    By Bonface Orucho, bird story agency   Africa’s off-grid solar sector continues to be a magnet for investment, with recent analysis from Africa: the Big Deal emphasizing its growing appeal to investors. Despite a general decline in start-up funding across the continent over the last two years, the industry remains a clear priority for both the social impact and regular investment community. According to Laura Fortes, the senior […]

todayAugust 22, 2024 24

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TikTok Announces Industry-First Sub-Saharan Africa Safety Advisory Council

  TikTok is taking major steps to boost safety on its platform across Sub-Saharan Africa with the launch of its inaugural Safety Advisory Council and the expansion of its #SaferTogether community education campaign. By partnering with key stakeholders, including policymakers, members from academia, NGOs, and community leaders, TikTok aims to foster a collaborative approach to ensuring a secure and positive platform environment. This announcement was made at TikTok's Safety Summit […]

todayAugust 22, 2024 56

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Sierra Leone’s women farmers use a custom called bora to access land – but it’s making them more vulnerable

  By Bankolay Theodore Turay, University of Lagos   Bora – a type of thank you gift – is a Sierra Leonean custom of respect that is often used in relation to land. For instance, informal farmers pay bora to landowners to be able to farm on their land. But bora has changed over the years and is having a negative impact on women, who are responsible for much of […]

todayAugust 21, 2024 21

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How do people choose what food to buy? Answers depend on what you ask – so we built a research tool for African countries

People buying and selling food at a farmers’ market in Chad’s capital city, N'Djamena. Issouf Sanogo/AFP     By Nomzamo N. Dlamini, University of Pretoria   You’re in a shop or market and you’re buying food for the next day. How do you choose what to buy? Does it depend on how much you can spend, on what’s the healthiest, the most attractively packaged? Understanding this is an important part of […]

todayAugust 20, 2024 16

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Uganda and the DRC conflict: the interests driving Kampala’s involvement

  By Kristof Titeca, University of Antwerp   The ambiguous and often tumultuous relations between Uganda and neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have made headlines in recent months. In a July 2024 report, the UN Group of Experts on the DRC stated that Ugandan army and intelligence officials were providing active support to the M23 rebel group. The group, which is active in eastern DRC, was first defeated in […]

todayAugust 20, 2024 22

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Climate change is a challenge for small-scale farmers – how a mix of old and new techniques produced a superior maize harvest in a dry part of South Africa

    By Abeeb Babatunde Omotoso, North-West University and Abiodun Olusola Omotayo, North-West University   New research into rural small-scale farms in South Africa’s North West province has found that climate-smart farming techniques lead to a better maize yield, a more regular supply of food for the farmers, and a wider variety of crops. Small-scale farmers often produce primarily for their own consumption, but many also sell produce in local […]

todayAugust 20, 2024 16

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Mpox outbreak in Africa was neglected – it could now turn into the next global pandemic

  By Wolfgang Preiser, Stellenbosch University; Cheryl Baxter, Stellenbosch University, and Jean Nachega, Stellenbosch University   The mpox outbreak in Africa is yet another example of how infectious diseases perceived to be “someone else’s problem”, and affecting mainly poor, developing countries, may suddenly pose unexpected global threats. Other examples of neglected diseases include the West Nile, Zika and Chikungunya viruses. Mpox was discovered in 1958 (in captive monkeys, hence the […]

todayAugust 19, 2024 24

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