Facebook to bring billions of people online
Facebook is accelerating its efforts to bring internet connectivity to the four billion people around the world who are not yet online, with the goal of contributing to prosperity, progress and development around the globe. The company’s Connectivity Lab has reached a major milestone in this ambition with the first full-scale test flight of Aquila, […]
Eko Atlantic: Nigeria builds modern city
Eko Atlantic City, a unique, innovative development, in a vibrant environment with 21st Century facilities on the coast of Lagos has reached advanced stages in the first 5 million sq. metres of the project. The city not only boasts of independent power and water supply, seamless communications network but also an extensive citywide road network. […]
How does South Sudan move forward?
Although a ceasefire between rival forces in the South Sudanese capital, Juba, is largely holding, the underlying tensions that led to five days of deadly violence earlier this month remains unaddressed. So what happens next? Amid the many dire warnings that South Sudan is about to dissolve into civil war, a small comfort is that […]
FIFA world rankings: Algeria leads in Africa
Algeria is Africa’s top football nation, according to the latest edition of the FIFA world football rankings. The north African nation, which is the first of six African countries on FIFA’s top 50, occupies the 32nd spot on the world rankings to lead in Africa. African champion Ivory Coast at number 35 on the global rankings is second on […]
Grand Gedeans back Veep Boakai for president
Liberians, under the banner of Global Grand Gedeans in Support of Joseph N. Boakai, have presented a statement of support to Vice President Joseph N. Boakai, pledging to rally all Grand Gedeans to champion his presidential bid come 2017. The organization said their support for Vice President Boakai is based on the facts that his […]
Standard Bank expands mobile services in Africa
South Africa’s Standard Bank is on a committed journey of rapid digitization across Africa, offering its customers more convenient ways to interact with their personal banking services. The latest innovation in this digital transformation journey is the expansion of the existing Standard Bank banking app to four additional African markets simultaneously, namely Uganda, Namibia, Ghana and […]
South Sudan: A fight to the death?
If the fighting in Juba between the forces of President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar marks South Sudan’s return to civil war, it won’t be for a lack of warnings over the shakiness of the peace. The power-sharing agreement that saw Machar return to Juba in late April was always going to be […]
African goals in Swedish premier league
The Swedish premier football championship, Allsvenskan, resumed last weekend after the Euro finals break. Nigeria’s John Owoeri struck twice as BK Hacken beat Hammarby 4-2 at home on Saturday. The striker pounced in the 37th minute and added another in the 63rd in this win that gave Hacken 19 points from 13 games and a 7th place on the […]
Liberian group in Europe supports Veep Boakai
A group of Liberians in Europe has described the election of Vice President Joseph N. Boakai as presidential candidate of Liberia’s ruling Unity Party as a manifestation of his “longstanding record of excellent public service.” Liberian Patriots in Europe (LPE), chaired by Michael G. Mueller, in a short press release issued on July 10, said VP Boakai’s […]
Double standards shape refugee policy
The Kenyan government threatens to close the largest refugee camp in the world. Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) researcher Sirkku Hellsten hopes this will trigger a serious discussion among EU and UN policy makers about general responsibilities on refugee issues. So far this has not been the case. if almost half a million people are forced to […]
