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Africa: Addressing the Cow within the Room, Lowing for Vitamin and Livelihoods #AfricaClimateCrisis

Africa: Addressing the Cow within the Room, Lowing for Vitamin and Livelihoods #AfricaClimateCrisis

Bulawayo — Meat, milk, and eggs are bad for you, and livestock is bad for the environment. Growing negative narratives about cattle's contribution to climate change are shrinking the growth of the strategic livestock sector…

How Bitcoin communities in Africa are fostering Bitcoin adoption

How Bitcoin communities in Africa are fostering Bitcoin adoption

In October 2020, Nigeria witnessed the largest protests the country had ever seen, as thousands of young people went out to march against police brutality and demanded the disbandment of the infamous SARS (Special Anti-Robbery…

South Africa hosts new Discussion board to advertise democracy on the Continent

South Africa hosts new Discussion board to advertise democracy on the Continent

A French-backed forum to promote democracy among young people in Africa was launched this Friday in South Africa, one year after the idea was unveiled at a French-African Summit. The Innovation Foundation for Democracy (FIDEMO)…

Save 20 p.c on canine necessities with Amazon’s Inventory Up & Save program

Save 20 p.c on canine necessities with Amazon’s Inventory Up & Save program

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Amazon’s Prime Early Access Sale doesn’t start until October 11, but the company just kicked off a new Stock…

Google Cloud companions with Syft Analytics to scale its monetary reporting instrument

Google Cloud companions with Syft Analytics to scale its monetary reporting instrument

Google Cloud has announced a collaboration with Syft Analytics, a South Africa-based financial reporting application to help it scale beyond South Africa. The Syft Analytics tool processes significant volumes of financial data and provides insightful…

South Africa’s largest enterprise capital fund has a variety drawback

South Africa’s largest enterprise capital fund has a variety drawback

Last week, Cape Town-based on-demand home cleaning and services startup SweepSouth announced that it had raised $11 million in its latest funding round.  In 2019, SweepSouth was the first company to receive funding from Naspers…

How you can use MTN MoMo in Ghana for funds, loans, and financial savings

How you can use MTN MoMo in Ghana for funds, loans, and financial savings

MTN MoMo Ghana means you can get more done via ussd and mobile application. We’ve prepared this article to show you how to carry out different transactions with the MTN MoMo service in Ghana. Tuition…

Digital Nomads: The Unilag graduates incomes £80,000 a yr in London 

Digital Nomads: The Unilag graduates incomes £80,000 a yr in London 

There are many parallels between Lagos and London. First off, the two cities are both the financial capitals of their countries and, as such, are a potpourri of different cultures. In recent times, another similarity…

Purple Elephant Ventures raises $1 million in pre-seed spherical

Purple Elephant Ventures raises $1 million in pre-seed spherical

Kenyan tourism-focused venture studio, Purple Elephant Ventures (PEV), the world’s first, has closed a pre-seed round of $1 million. The venture studio wants to use the funding to build at least three startups every year. …

Safaricom Ethiopia goes stay, secures cellular cash license

Safaricom Ethiopia goes stay, secures cellular cash license

As Kenya’s Safaricom officially launched its Ethiopian network on Thursday—becoming the first private operator in one of Africa’s largest telecoms markets—Ethiopia’s government welcomed M-Pesa.  Safaricom Ethiopia’s launch follows a ten-city pilot and a phased launch…

Iconic Easter Island Heads Undergo ‘Irreparable’ Harm After Large Wildfire

Iconic Easter Island Heads Undergo ‘Irreparable’ Harm After Large Wildfire

Some of the famed stone heads of Easter Island have been damaged in a massive wildfire.“The moai are totally charred,” Ariki Tepano, director of the indigenous Ma’u Henua community, said on social media, per the…

Jailed Activist, Rights Teams Win Nobel Peace Prize For Work In Belarus, Russia, Ukraine

Jailed Activist, Rights Teams Win Nobel Peace Prize For Work In Belarus, Russia, Ukraine

OSLO, Norway (AP) — This year’s Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to jailed Belarus rights activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian group Memorial and the Ukrainian organization Center for Civil Liberties, a strong rebuke to…