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Kenya

Virus Outbreak Burundi

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Burundi: WHO reps expelled ahead of polls set to go, despite COVID-19

Burundi expelled World Health Organisation (WHO) representatives in the country and warned election observers from the region that they would ... have to go into quarantine for 14 days upon arrival.

Article 8/10 of "Corona Chronicles: 18 May – 22 May"

Tanzania President and Drama

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Coronavirus: Tanzania’s handling of pandemic raises eyebrows

With just months to go to the end of his first term, Tanzania's president John P. Magufuli is making global headlines once again, as his administration ... continues its somewhat questionable approach to controlling COVID-19 within its borders.

Article 3/10 of "Corona Chronicles: 10 May – 15 May"

Lasting Unicorn?

Interswitch to extend Verve card use in Africa to up unicorn status

The COVID-19 pandemic gives Interswitch the opportunity to extend use of its Verve debit card into new African markets, CEO Mitchell Elegbe tells ... The Africa Report.

A pupil sits inside a classroom ahead of the primary school final national examinations at Kiboro Primary school along Juja road in Nairobi

profiting from education

IFC to freeze investment to for-profit education: small win in a long fight

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) announces a shift in education strategy that acknowledges the voices of the most marginalized. ...

Talking Africa Podcast

Coronavirus: Easing the lockdown – Johannesburg, Nairobi and Lagos

A week is a long time in a global pandemic. ...

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Coronavirus: Pandemic puts strain 30 major African oil and gas projects

To date, oil and gas majors have only officially announced delays and cancellations impacting minor projects, but the start-up dates of most ... major hydrocarbon projects are expected to be postponed by one to three years. Rystad Energy, an independent energy research and business intelligence company, helps us take stock of the situation.

Kenya Railway Wildlife Controversy

Kenya’s Spencon: rapid collapse leaves thousands jobless

The rapid collapse of Spencon, a 40-year-old construction giant in East Africa, a few years after it was taken over by a private equity firm, ... has left thousands jobless and is the subject of several court cases across the world.

From left to right: Nicholas Nganga, President of Safaricom, Peter Ndegwa, Chief Executive Officer and Sateeh Kamath, Chief Financial Officer. The three executives presented the operator's 2019 results via videoconference

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Kenya: M-Pesa and mobile data boost Safaricom’s 2019 growth

Kenya's largest telecoms operator, which recorded double-digit growth in 2019, announced a partnership with Google to bring one million low-cost ... smartphones to the Kenyan market.

eagle eye

US-Africa: Team Trump steps on the gas as China looms

The Trump administration is ramping up its trade and diplomacy on the continent with its eyes firmly fixed on China as a strategic threat. ...

Article 2/7 of "US Africa – a dynamic partnership"

Virus Outbreak Zimbabwe

DISTRESS CALL

Coronavirus: Ease sanctions for Zimbabwe and Sudan pleads AU Chair

African Union (AU) chairperson Cyril Ramaphosa has implored the international community to lift economic sanctions against Zimbabwe and Sudan ... to enable the countries to fight the spread of COVID-19.

Article 4/10 of "Corona Chronicles: 27 April – 30 April"

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