The Nigerian Afrobeats singer Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun popularly known as Wizkid has hit over one billion streams as a lead artist on Apple Music, making him the first African to achieve it. The artist hit 1.3 billion YouTube views, 1.16 billion Spotify Lead streams, and 4.6 billion Spotify total streams. He also has 349 million total Audiomack streams, 183…
President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Samia Suluhu Hassan, has said that no number of challenges should prevent Africa from going ahead with the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), as the deal is the only hope of reviving economies in the region. She premised her comments on the fact that there is enormous opportunity for the continent…
Summary The project involves upgrading of the current 84km two-way single bitumen road to a two-lane dual carriage way, and is expected to ease access to the northern corridor by reducing time by about 26 percent and cost by 35 percent. Dr Adesina will inspect the Kenol-Sagana-Marua highway project, which is co-financed by AfDB to the tune of $191…
Rwanda is set to host the first-ever HealthTech Summit for Africa, bringing together players, and innovators in the healthcare sector to discuss and showcase the potential of healthtech on the continent. Organised by HealthTech Hub Africa– a Kigali based health-tech accelerator–the summit will take place from June 2 to 4, 2022, and it comes at a critical time when…
Rwanda is set to host the first-ever HealthTech Summit for Africa, bringing together players, and innovators in the healthcare sector to discuss and showcase the potential of healthtech on the continent. Organised by HealthTech Hub Africa– a Kigali based health-tech accelerator–the summit will take place from June 2 to 4, 2022, and it comes at a critical time when…
Summary The lobby reckons that the volatility in the exchange rate market has slowed dollar trading among lenders or interbank deals, further worsening the scarcity of the US currency. The shortage of dollars is triggering the emergence of parallel exchange rate that has seen lenders buying and selling well above the printed official rate, the manufacturers’ lobby has warned….
The African Business Roundtable (ABR), a group of visionary business leaders who saw very early the need for Africa to position itself well in the global market to attract investments to the continent, this year marks its third decade of existence. Founded with the primary objective of boosting the African private sector, the ABR has successfully positioned itself at the forefront…
The African Business Roundtable (ABR), a group of visionary business leaders who saw very early the need for Africa to position itself well in the global market to attract investments to the continent, this year marks its third decade of existence. Founded with the primary objective of boosting the African private sector, the ABR has successfully positioned itself at the forefront…
By DR. AGNES KALIBATA The food price crisis of 2007-2008, Covid-19, the Russia – Ukraine War, and climate change have exposed the fragility of food systems. The greatest risk lies in refusing to learn from lessons of the past. At the start of 2022, we were already facing the prospect of a food crisis. Even before the first Russian…
Cape Town – UCT has announced that it will introduce Swahili from 2023, with the aim of launching it as a major subject in 2028. Swahili is a language spoken either as a mother tongue or as a second language on the East Coast of Africa and is used in more than 14 countries. The announcement was made by…