Promoting Africa
The Ivorian Tidjane Thiam, Chief Executive Officer of Credit Suisse, was awarded the title of "Banker of the Year" on Wednesday, July 11 in London, at the "Euromoney Awards for Excellence 2018" ceremony. This award obtained by Tidjane rewards his efforts in the restructuring of Credit Suisse. He was rewarded for redesigning the bank's strategy,…
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The state of war that existed between Ethiopia and Eritrea has now come to an end. Former sworn enemies Monday signed an agreement to end 20 years of war between them. This week Ethiopian prime minister, Abiy Ahmed visited neighboring Eritrea, to be greeted by president Isaias Afwerki. After talks the president and prime minister signed a…
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The $33,000 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation has been awarded to a 24-year old Ugandan engineer for his invention of a bloodless malaria test: Matibabu (meaning ‘treatment’ in Swahilo). Malaria infects some 300 million to 600 million every year around the world, according to Unicef, and Sub-Saharan Africa alone accounts for 90% of the world’s 580,000 annual malaria deaths.…
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Kenyan writer Makena Onjerika has won the 2018 Caine Prize for African Writing with her story "Fanta Blackcurrant". Five writers short stories had been shortlisted for the big prize this year: Nonyelum Ekwempu (Nigeria), Olufunke Ogundimu (Nigeria) and Wole Talabi (Nigeria) Stacy Hardy (South Africa) and Makena Onjerika (Kenya). Fanta Blackcurrant First published in Wasafiri…
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Nigerian pop star David Adeleke, better known as Davido, on Sunday won the 2018 BET Award for Best International Act. When he arrived on the BET Awards stage to pick up his award, he started his acceptance speech, by sending his condolences to Dbanj, who lost his one-year-old son on Sunday: “Before I go on, I…
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Ghanaian scientists at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, have designed beads to educate mothers to accurately monitor children’s respiratory rates to detect early stages of pneumonia. According to Unicef, pneumonia accounts for approximately 2 400 deaths per day in children younger than five years old. WHO estimates that in 2015 pneumonia…
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Senegal win 2-1 against Poland, on Tuesday June 19, was the first victory of an African team at the 2018 Fifa World Cup, and this is thanks to their Coach Aliou Cissé. Tuesday's victory came at a time when many Africans had started losing hope of their chances in the tournament, after all their teams…
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