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Kenya Experiments With Boutique Teas
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
In a humming factory in Kenya’s highlands, tea is hand-plucked from the fields, cured and shredded into the fine leaves that have sated drinkers from London to Lahore for generations.
But Kenya’s prized black tea…
Africa Delivers Largest Profits on Investment
VOICE OF AMERICA
British companies have made bigger profits investing in Africa than in any other region of the world, according to an international report.
The Overseas Development Institute urges companies to seek profits on the…
Ethiopian Women Find Opportunity in Green Energy
World Bank
Making use of vast energy potential such as solar, wind and geothermal, and a grid that is nearly 100% supplied by renewable sources, Ethiopia is undertaking an ambitious project to achieve universal electricity access by…
Africa Close to Eliminating Polio
ADF STAFF
Africa is on the verge of being declared polio-free after three years without any recorded cases of the disease.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said in August 2019 that Nigeria had marked three years without a wild…
Nigerian Company Mapping Continent’s DNA
BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS
Black Africans are at a disadvantage when it comes to drug treatments because they represent only 2% of the genetic samples used for pharmaceutical research. A new Nigeria-based genomics company wants to change…
Zimbabwe Dollar Notes Issued Again
BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS
Queues have formed outside banks in Zimbabwe as people hope to get hold of the country’s first Zimbabwe dollar notes issued since 2009.
The currency was scrapped a decade ago because hyperinflation caused…