Promoting Africa
The World Happiness Report 2017 has ranked Algeria as the happiest country in Africa. Countries are given a rating between 1 to 10 (10 being the highest), and the ranking takes into account a range of factors that may affect a country’s happiness, including: GDP per capita, social support available in the country, life expectancy, freedom…
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Borussia Dortmund star Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has hailed Robert Lewandowski as the best scorer of the Bundesliga season. He ends the campaign on 31 goals at an average of one every 90 minutes. Aubameyang was excellent for Dortmund this season, with the Gabon international boasting an average shot accuracy of 63%, while his link up play…
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Former Ethiopian health minister Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was elected on May 23, 2017, as the World Health Organisation's first ever director-general from Africa. He replaces Margaret Chan, who will step down from her 10-year post at the end of June 2017. Tedros served in the government of Ethiopia as Minister of Health from 2005 to…
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We are presenting you Enda, Kenya's first running shoe created by Navalayo Osembo-Ombati and Weldon Kennedy, in 2015 as a Benefit Corporation. As you might already know, Kenya is home to generations of world's greatest distance runners. Kenya's North Rift Valley sees every year, runners from around the world train on it's roads with the…
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Femi Kuti, Nigeria's Afrobeat legend, and son of the Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti, has broken the World record for the longest single note held on a saxophone at the New Africa Shrine on May 14 at the New Africa Shrine. Femi broke the record with a 51 minutes, 35 seconds note, beating the previous record…
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The audit firm Ernst & Young published in early May 2017 its list of the most attractive African countries. At the head of the pack is Morocco, which replaces Africa on which had first place in 2016. The relative attractiveness of the investments of 46 African economies was measured on the basis of the following:…
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https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5mhdsl_le-drone-futur-de-la-livraison-medicale-au-rwanda_news 20 minutes is the time it takes for a drone to refuel the health center in Kabgayi, some 40 kilometers south of Kigali. Regularly, the aircraft took off from his "drone -port" to deliver blood pockets to this field hospital. A reportage of "Success", the program co-produced by the group Jeune Afrique, Canal +…
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