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Kenyan schoolgirls create female health app for Google
Five Kenyan teenagers, aged 15 to 17, have been selected to take part in the Google Technovation software development competition. Their innovative app design...
Innovation Prize for Africa recognises Lakheni
A South African initiative that uses group buying power to lower food prices for needy communities, using a mobile app, has been nominated for...
Africa can improve access to healthcare for all
Africa bears one-quarter of the global disease burden, yet has only 2% of the world’s doctors. To improve the delivery of healthcare, the continent...
M-Pesa at 10: How Africa become the leader in mobile money
M-Pesa, the world’s largest mobile money network, has enabled millions of Africans to gain access to safe and secure banking solutions. The idea has...
Saving Kenyan wildlife from drought, one truck at a time
Patrick Mwalua drives a truck hundreds of kilometres four times a week to deliver much needed water supplies to animals in Kenya's drought-stricken Tsavo...
Remembering South African writer Peter Abrahams: 1919 – 2017
South African writer Peter Abrahams died on 18 January 2017. An early pioneer in the exploration of race identity in South Africa, he was...
African Union choose new chairperson
Chadian Foreign Minister Moussa Faki Mahamat has been chosen as the new chairperson of the African Union Commission. Mahamat replaces South Africa’s Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.
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Name an African elephant and save it
Amarula’s Name Them, Save Them campaign fights elephant poaching and gets society to understand these mystical creatures.
Ray Maota
There are less than 400 000 African...
Art show highlights Africa-America connection
CD Anderson
A new exhibition at Johannesburg's Goodman Gallery, titled Africans in America, is an exploration of the cultural and contextual parallels between the continent...
Matatu buses: Kenya’s mobile museums
8 November 2016
Kenya's matatu buses are 12- and 14-seater urban transport vehicles – a little bigger than the average South African minibus taxi –...
