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Afrobeats music star Tiwa Savage signs global deal with Universal Music Group

One of the world's leading music groups, Universal Music Group (UMG) has signed an exclusive recording agreement with award-winning Nigerian singer, Tiwa Savage. She becomes the first female African artist to sign a global deal with Universal Music Group. "Under this agreement, Tiwa will make music with UMG and have access to their infrastructure and…

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The world’s largest drone delivery network launched in Ghana

On April 24, the Ghanaian Government, in partnership with American company Zipline, launched in the city of Omenako, the world’s largest medical drone delivery service. The new service will use drones to make on-demand, emergency deliveries of 148 different vaccines, blood products, and life-saving medications. Already hundreds of drones have started delivering life-saving vaccines, blood…

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Kenya, second sub-Saharan African country after South Africa, to establish a human milk bank

Kenya’s first human milk bank has opened at Pumwani Maternity Hospital. "Pumwani Maternity Hospital was selected as the site for the pilot human milk bank due to the number of vulnerable neonates in need" (Mike Mbuvi, governor of Nairobi City County). Nairobi’s neonatal deaths (deaths during the first 28 days of life), is the highest…

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Jumia has become the first e-commerce company operating in Africa to list on the New York Stock Exchange

The largest e-commerce operator in Africa, has officially started trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday April 12 as “JMIA”, with shares beginning trading at $18.95, and closing at $25.46. The company offered 13.5 million shares for purchase and raised $196 million. Jumia’s IPO is now the first major African-focused venture-funded tech company…

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Kenyan science teacher Peter Tabichi becomes the first African to win the Global Teacher Prize

On Sunday March 24, Kenyan Science teacher Peter Tabichi won the 2019 Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize, as a recognition for his contribution to his school in Nakuru Kenya. Beating 10,000 other nominees from 179 countries, Peter Tabichi was awarded a $1 million prize for the world's best teacher. He is known for giving away…

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