India offers Africa an honest partnership: EAM Dr S Jaishankar
India's external affairs minister Dr S Jaishankar has said that New Delhi offers Africa "an honest partnership" and believes in "empowering rather than extracting from"...
Month : September 2020
TechCabal Weekly Podcast: A look into why crypto is exploding in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Sub-Saharan African sub region is seeing an unexpected increase in the use of cryptocurrency. What is driving this adoption and what countries in the...
Africa: Journalists Targeted Across the Continent
Decades after many governments across the continent loosened control over broadcasters and publishers, the media industry is under threat. The Journal of Democracy has noted...
Africa: The World Must Pull Together On Covid-19 Vaccine for All
Rich countries look set to hoard coronavirus vaccines - but in a globalised world we cannot afford to leave the poor behind. Last week WHO...
South Africans urged to wear orange masks on Fridays – but why?
Staying alive has never been so fashionable: A campaign to get as many South Africans as possible to wear orange masks once a week has...
Two African women in final five WTO leadership race
Three women, two of them from Africa, have advanced to the second round of selection to become the next director-general of the World Trade Organization...
How South Africa’s Jerusalema became a pan-African hit, then a global dance favorite
So many people have been curious about the South African song, “Jerusalema,” that this month it became the most Shazamed song in the world. Recorded...
World Bank chief economist says full global recovery from the COVID-19 crisis may take 5 years
Summary List Placement World Bank's chief economist, Carmen Reinhart, expects full global economic recovery to take as long as 5 years. "Everything depends" on when...
‘COVID-19 only takes white people’: Researchers battle disease myths in South Africa
As the coronavirus clings on, reasserting itself in countries like the UK and US, the hopes and fears of politicians, scientists and the rest of...
Roche jumps 2% after unveiling COVID-19 antibody test, and on finding its drugs cut need for
Summary List Placement Shares in Swiss healthcare group Roche rose 2% on Friday after the company launched a new test to measure COVID-19 antibodies, and...