Analyst examining the trends and insider data shaping investment, enterprise, and development across Africa.
The government of Rwanda has caught the attention of the world after it announced earlier this week, through the Ministry of ICT and Innovation, that the country will launch a satellite that will provide broadband internet to schools in remote areas. Dubbed ‘Icyerekezo’ by students of Groupe Secondaire St Pierre
In a quick response to Samsung's unveiling of it's foldable phone version, Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, the second largest electronics producer in the world, also launched a foldable 5G smartphone in Barcelona on the 24th of February ahead of the 2019 Mobile World Congress (MWC) in
In it for the oil According to a book by former FBI director, Andrew McCabe, in July 2017, President Donald Trump told his intelligence briefers that he wondered why the United States of America was not at war with Venezuela. He added, "...they have all that oil and they’
By Amb. Rufus D. Neufville It is disheartening that two lawmakers from the ruling party would elect to waste the precious time of the Supreme Court and the Legislature by presenting a bill to impeach Associate Justice Kabineh Ja’neh purely on hearsays and falsehoods. It is even more disturbing
Nigerians are going to polls today, 23 February 2019 to cast their votes for the next president and members of parliament. This is after the initial election date set for February 16, 2019, was canceled a few hours before voting commenced. Despite earlier announcing that 84 million citizens have collected
Yevgeny Prigozhin is a restaurateur from St. Petersburg in Russia. He is known as Vladimir Putin's chef as his company provides the Kremlin with catering services. Lately, Prigozhin has not just been cooking and dishing food to the Kremlin. He is serving Putin with Africa and a number
If you love good cooking, then come to Africa! We Africans have always known this, but it nice to know that the world now recognizes it! It came as a surprise to many when a small restaurant in Cape Town, South Africa called Wolfgat was named “Restaurant of the Year”
From the townships of South Africa to the five-star resorts of Egypt, food borne pathogens lurk undetected, attack victims without discrimination and often lead to preventable deaths. Hazardous food and water pose life-threatening consequences worldwide, but Africa is disproportionately affected with the highest occurrences of food borne diseases: Every year,
In what would be sad news to the millions of Ghanaian citizens who apply for American visas yearly, the United States of America has said that it would be imposing visa restrictions on Ghana. The announcement was made public in a statement released by the United States Department of Homeland
Regional currencies and indeed economic integration has become skeptics' wild card after Brexit. Many analysts believe that if the European Union (EU) could wake up to nationalistic moves, the issues relating to Greece and slower economies and migration challenges, Africa's regional integration may just be a Utopia.
For long, the University of Pretoria in South Africa has been known to be an "Afrikaner enclave," but with the newly appointed Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Professor Tawana Kupe, this is now changing. Professor Kupe has moved in to change the issue of language at the university. The university
Remittances coming from migrant workers from all over the world make a major contribution to the African economy. While the impact of these money transfers differs from country to country, it’s a fact that in many places they play a crucial role not only for the families of workers.
Internet service providers in Zimbabwe have informed citizens of the country that the government has given a directive for the internet (which was earlier blocked) to be restored. However, all social media platforms remained blocked until further notice. Earlier today, Econet, the leading telecoms provider in the country sent a
Africans can look forward to greater freedom of travel with the future introduction of the African Union passport. The union’s Commission is set to announce details of this highly-anticipated unified passport at the 32nd African Union summit in Addis Ababa this February. The Chairperson of the Commission, Moussa Faki
You may have the dream of being in Coco Chanel’s apartment Paris but you can live that dream while down in Cape Town, in Coco Safar café, where Coco is from Coco Chanel, all things, elegant, sophisticated and all so posh. Safar means safari, from the Swahili word safari.
One can only wonder how government appointees in the cabinet of Tanzanian president, John Magufuli, reacted when they heard that their personal telephone conversations were being monitored all along by their boss. The president, while urging his ministers to improve their working relations and attitudes has revealed that he tracks
