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Orda elevate money to back bukas and eating places scale

Orda elevate money to back bukas and eating places scale

When food business owners across the country try to reconcile all their transactions after the day’s business, they use paper and pen, spend hours, and are exposed to discrepancies or losses.  Orda is a company…

South Africa: Facing Hormone Shortages, South Africa’s Trans Men Strive Dark Market

South Africa: Facing Hormone Shortages, South Africa’s Trans Men Strive Dark Market

As COVID-19 fuels testosterone shortages, some trans men are turning to risky illegal alternatives * Testosterone shortages disrupt gender transitions * COVID-19 vaccines impacting supplies * Transgender men turn to black market hormones South African…

Egypt: New Egypt Bridge Spells Pause to Life in Metropolis of the Tedious

Egypt: New Egypt Bridge Spells Pause to Life in Metropolis of the Tedious

Jobs, homes and graves to go under mass relocation of Cairo slum In a room overlooking an ancient tomb in Old Cairo, 64-year-old Hossnia El Sayed worries for her future. The basic, stone room is…

Zimbabwe: Govt Slammed Over Giving Neighborhood Carrier for Sexual Offenders

Zimbabwe: Govt Slammed Over Giving Neighborhood Carrier for Sexual Offenders

A local organization working with girls, Shamwari Yemwanasikana (SYS) has slammed the government over the passing of lighter sentences to sexual offenders including community service, a situation they said sends them back to the same…

South Africa: Zozi Tunzi Gets Acting Debut in Viola Davis’ ‘The Woman King’

South Africa: Zozi Tunzi Gets Acting Debut in Viola Davis’ ‘The Woman King’

Former Miss Universe, Zozibini Tunzi has bagged her acting debut in Amercian star studded historical film, The Woman King. Tunzi announced she will soon be heading to the epic movie's set joining fellow South African…

Cases fall for first time as Africa’s fourth COVID-19 wave ebbs

Cases fall for first time as Africa’s fourth COVID-19 wave ebbs

Brazzaville – Weekly COVID-19 cases in Africa have dropped significantly and deaths dipped for the first time since the peak of the fourth pandemic wave propelled by the Omicron variant. The decline nudges the continent past…

Nano-sized vesicles with ACE2 receptor could well prevent, treat an infection from fresh and future lines of SARS-CoV-2

Nano-sized vesicles with ACE2 receptor could well prevent, treat an infection from fresh and future lines of SARS-CoV-2

Transmission electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, isolated from a patient. Image captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Credit: NIAID Scientists at The University of Texas MD…

Dresses mark Carhartt in conservative crosshairs for issuing vaccine directive

Dresses mark Carhartt in conservative crosshairs for issuing vaccine directive

Carhartt, the Michigan-based workwear company, is facing a wave of conservative backlash after its CEO announced that it will keep its vaccination mandate, despite a recent supreme court decision to block a federal mandate that…

India bids farewell to ‘supermum’ tiger Collarwali

India bids farewell to ‘supermum’ tiger Collarwali

Of the 29 cubs Collarwali gave birth to over her lifetime, 25 survived to adulthood. Indian animal lovers are in mourning over the sudden passing of a nationally famous tigress credited with repopulating a forest…

Russia’s most productive feminine cosmonaut to trail to position of abode in September

Russia’s most productive feminine cosmonaut to trail to position of abode in September

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Russia's sole active female cosmonaut, Anna Kikina, is due to travel to the International Space Station in September on a Soyuz rocket, the national space agency said Thursday. Kikina, a 37-year-old…

Misogynistic attitudes in direction of females’s sport among male football followers

Misogynistic attitudes in direction of females’s sport among male football followers

Openly misogynistic attitudes towards women's sport may be common amongst male football fans, according to new research involving online message boards. The Durham University-led study, based on a survey of 1,950 male football fans on…

Air pollution critically reduces pollination by complicated butterflies and bees

Air pollution critically reduces pollination by complicated butterflies and bees

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Common air pollutants from both urban and rural environments may be reducing the pollinating abilities of insects by preventing them from sniffing out the crops and wildflowers that depend on them,…