AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Twitter announced plans to hire 11 people and open an office in Ghana, the company’s first in Africa.…
Year: 2021
ADF STAFF For a time, skirmishes between rival Nguni tribes in what is now South Africa were all bluster and…
CLUES Arabian legend says these trees look peculiar because the devil pulled one up and plunged its branches into the…
ADF STAFF About three weeks after the COVID-19 omicron variant was discovered in Botswana, the U.S. government donated two coronavirus…
ADF STAFF The rapidly spreading omicron variant of COVID-19 has reached 13 African countries, but so far it is producing…
ADF STAFF For entrepreneurs, scientists, doctors and artists, COVID-19 was again a call to action in 2021. From canines to…
ADF STAFF The COVID-19 pandemic has been a bumpy road for boda boda drivers in East Africa. The ubiquitous motorcycle…
ADF STAFF The United States government contributed an additional $2.9 million in COVID-19 assistance to Cameroon in late November. Since…
ADF STAFF As Africa works to recover from the widespread impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation has…
ADF STAFF U.S. drone company Zipline has signed a partnership with Côte d’Ivoire that will make it easier to deliver…