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Africa Tech Summit London Announces 15 Ventures for the 2024 Investment Showcase at London Stock Exchange on June 7th

      Africa Tech Summit (ATS) London will celebrate the eighth edition at the London Stock Exchange on June 7th, 2024, and is thrilled to announce the 15 tech ventures that will join the ATS Investment Showcase 2024. The ATS London Investment Showcase provides ventures with the opportunity to present their businesses to leading African tech investors, corporates, and industry stakeholders in attendance from Europe, USA and Africa. The […]

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How BAL’S Sahara conference action is unfolding in Dakar

      via bird story agency   As BAL’s Sahara Conference gets underway at the Dakar Arena in Senegal, the first round saw professional basketball clubs from Senegal, Rwanda, Nigeria, and Tunisia vying for direct playoff berths. Nigeria’s Rivers Hoopers are topping conference standings with a commanding third consecutive victory in the group stage. Their latest triumph, an 84-63 win over Tunisia’s US Monastir, follows a hard-fought 86-82 triumph […]

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Malawi’s school kids are using tablets to improve their reading and maths skills

    By Nicola Pitchford, University of Nottingham   Malawi introduced free primary education in 1994. This has significantly improved access to schooling. However, the country – which is one of the poorest in the world – still faces a high learning poverty rate of 87%. Learning poverty is a measure of a child’s inability to meet minimum proficiency in reading, numeracy and other skills at the primary school level. […]

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Madagascar’s ancient baobab forests are being restored by communities – with a little help from AI

        By Seheno Andriantsaralaza, Université d’Antananarivo     Six of the world’s eight baobab species are indigenous to Madagascar, where the distinctive trees with giant trunks have historically grown in huge forests. But these forests are threatened by slash-and-burn agriculture – 4,000 hectares of baobab forest in Madagascar are destroyed every year. Baobab trees can live for 1,000 years and one hectare of land can support eight […]

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Female genital mutilation is on the rise in Africa: disturbing new trends are driving up the numbers

      By Tamsin Bradley, University of Portsmouth     Thirteen-year-old Salamatu Jalloh had her whole future to look forward to. But in January 2023, her lifeless body was found wrapped in a pink and blue shroud on an earthen floor in a village in north-west Sierra Leone. Salamatu and two other girls bled to death after participating in a secret Bondo society initiation into womanhood. The ceremony, which […]

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Can insurtech fix Africa’s low insurance penetration?

    By Conrad Onyango, via bird story agency   Until recently, Africa’s legacy insurance market has been relying on an old agent-driven sales model, where agents physically scouts for clients in offices, malls and other business centers to market, sell and deliver insurance products. Under this model these agents have mostly been focusing on selling individual policies largely to wealthy clients who can buy expensive products to earn them […]

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South Africans are abandoning smallholder farming – history and policy can help explain why

    By Klara Fischer, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences   South African smallholders are abandoning farming. The decline in field cultivation is a problem, since many of these smallholder households struggle to make ends meet. If people were able to produce more of their own food this would improve their lives. The current situation is a combined effect of the country’s historical legacy and the negative impacts of recent […]

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Cement is a big carbon emitter and quality is costly: a civil engineer explains

    By Elsabe Kearsley, University of Pretoria   Every year the world uses 4 billion tonnes of cement to make the concrete that goes into buildings and other infrastructure. It leaves a huge carbon footprint, and comes with other costs too. Civil engineering professor Elsabe Kearsley, who researches cement and concrete, tells us more about this basic ingredient of modern life and explains some of the work that’s being […]

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Off-grid solar sparks a lantern sales boom in Africa – report

      By Bonface Orucho, bird story agency   A new report has highlighted the continued popularity of lanterns powered by off-grid solar alternatives as more people opt for cleaner lighting options in Africa. The report ‘Global Off-Grid Solar Market Data July-December 2023’ by the Global Off-Grid Lighting Association (GOGLA), the global association for off-grid solar energy industry, is based on sales reported by 32 solar energy kit manufacturers […]

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