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FAMOCO announces its partnership with Orange Cameroon to improve the efficiency of their distribution network
Over 5,000 FAMOCO devices have been deployed in the first phase PARIS, France, April 25th 2017,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- FAMOCO, the leader in secure professional Android devices, announces a major commercial partnership with Orange Cameroon. A strategic choice by Orange to increase the efficiency of its distribution network (reduce fraud,…
Read More »Zimbabwe’s wet season helps with bumper crops
A year after a state of emergency was declared in Zimbabwe, the country is now able to export excess food. Last year, the Command Agriculture programme was launched in response to the shrinking agricultural output and drought. This provided finance, seed, fertiliser and pesticides. The goal was to make Zimbabwe…
Read More »Between East & West: Africa’s economic transformation will create a third centre of global power
Brett Parker, Managing Director – SAP Africa at SAP JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 19 April 2017,-/African Media Agency/-What a difference a century makes. If we stepped back in time to a hundred years ago we’d find a primitive China; a Middle East that had yet to discover the riches of oil…
Read More »Giving adolescent girls ‘second chance’ for education
The second chance education program is an informal system of education targeting adolescent girls aged between 13 and 17 and who never had the opportunity to attend school or dropped out of school Northern Nigeria has one of the most frightful statistics of out-of-school girls in the world, which is…
Read More »What is albinism and what causes it?
Al Jazeera has received a number of questions about albinism following the publishing of our investigation into the killings of people with albinism in Malawi. The report, “Killed for their bones: On the trail of the trade in human body parts” explores the reasons behind the devastating attacks on the community in Malawi…
Read More »WHO: Malaria vaccine to be ‘real life’ tested in Africa
The world’s first malaria vaccine will be available in selected areas of Ghana, Kenya and Malawi from 2018, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The UN body’s regional office for Africa said in a statementon Monday that RTS,S injectable vaccine was developed to protect young children from the deadliest…
Read More »Senegal players prepare for FIFA beach soccer world cup
The world’s top beach soccer teams are heading to the Bahamas for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup. Senegal is among the competing teams; playing football on the sand there is a national sport. Al Jazeera’s Nicolas Haque reports from Yoff Beach, Senegal. The post Senegal players prepare for FIFA…
Read More »The black jockeys shaking up South Africa’s horse riding scene
Kyalami, South Africa – Since becoming the first black men to work with Lipizzaners, an elite group of horses bred for dressage, Shepherd Zira and Cyril Thabede are filled with pride over breaking apartheid-era racial barriers in the field of performance riding. Last year, the South African Lipizzaners, a non-profit…
Read More »Coventry University graduate working to turn young people away from terrorism across West Africa
Mutaru Mumuni Muqthar, a graduate of Coventry’s International Terrorism masters course ACCRA, Ghana, 24 April 2017,-/African Media Agency/- A Coventry University graduate devoted to tackling terrorism will talk about how he stopped a young man joining ISIS with just hours to spare, when he speaks in Ghana this month. Mutaru…
Read More »APPLY! 2017 Media for Oil Reform (MFOR) Fellowship
The MFOR Fellowship is uniquely designed to support three senior or mid-career journalists to deepen their mastery of oil and gas reporting through a tailored professional capacity development program over a period of one year. Fellows will have the opportunity to engage in a range of formal and…
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OP-ED | Centuries of Bad Choices Deny African Women Clean Cooking Solutions, By Mohamed Adow
Over 800,000 women and girls die prematurely each year from exposure to polluting fuels …
