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Who Are The Maasai?
Other than an acacia tree in a sunset backdrop, the most common icon of Africa is that of a Maasai. Images of tall and slender men, partially draped in distinctive red shawls, standing stork-like on...
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Seven New Start-Ups To Receive Funding From Microsoft’s 4Afrika Initiative
Written by Simnikiwe Mzekandaba | From IT Web Africa Microsoft’s 4Afrika initiative has announced the next round of startups that will receive funding, technical support and mentorship. According to a...
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Sub-Saharan African Countries With the Most Tourists
Tourism in Africa has been on the rise for years, making it home to some of the fastest-growing economies in the world. The tourism potential across the African continent is incredible, with...
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10 Signs You’re Getting Older
The thought of having roommates that you're not married to fills you with despair Whereas roommates used to be a fact of life, and a welcome one at that, given that you’d always have somebody to...
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10 Famous Last Meals Of Convicted Murderers
We can only image what ordering what you know to be your last meal would feel like: inmates can ask for anything within reason, many probably order foods they’d never otherwise dream of eating because...
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10 Important Things to Know About the UN’s HeForShe Campaign
Emma Watson recently gave an impassioned speech, in her role as a United Nations Women Global Goodwill Ambassador, that introduced the UN’s new “He for She” initiative. The speech gained international...
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Zimbabwe’s Tobacco Farmer Registration Sees 10Pct Increase
From All Africa The number of farmers who have registered to grow tobacco in the 2014/15 period is up nearly 10 percent to 71,000 compared to the same period last year as preparations get underway for...
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Feeding The Hungry Soul: A First-Timer Takes On Morocco
Let’s say you’re in Europe, backpacking. Maybe you’ve graduated college recently (like me). Or you’re in your mid-30’s and running away. Or you’re 75 and have lots of time for adventure. You’re finding...
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Rebels Drag Out UN Disarming Process In DRC
Written by Philipp Sandner | From Deutsche Welle UN troops gave the rebel groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo six months to disarm. During this timeframe rebels from Democratic Forces for the...
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Dutch Firm To Help Equatorial Guinea Launch Internet Domain
Written by Gareth van Zyl | From It Web Africa Dutch headquartered registry operator Freenom is helping Equatorial Guinea relaunch its internet top level domain, GQ, and giveaway domains with this name...
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AFKI Commodities Report: Crude Prices Tumble Further
Crude oil futures hit fresh lows amid rising supply from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and the U.S. at a time when concerns about slackening global oil demand are...
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Offshore Oil Revives Old Border Disputes Between Ghana And Ivory Coast
While it would be easy for casual observers to think of maritime law as an outdated fiefdom of scholars whose relevance has long since fallen off along with wooden armadas, island discoveries and...
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Five People Infected Every Hour In Sierra Leone, Says Save The Children
From International Business Times UK-based NGO Save The Children claimed Wednesday that five people are infected with the Ebola virus every hour in Sierra Leone, causing a massive shortage in the...
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Slain Eritrean Community Leader Nahom Berhane Mourned By Thousands
From The Toronto Star Hundreds of members of Toronto’s Eritrean community chanted in grief for more than an hour as they honoured the life of slain civic leader Nahom Tsehaie Berhane on Saturday. The...
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Mali Tries To Filter Passengers From Ebola-Hit Guinea
From Yahoo At a Mali border post in Kouremale about 130 km (80 miles) south of the capital Bamako, five health workers stand under a thatched roof, directing passengers arriving from Guinea to wash...
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Kenya Shifts To Capital Markets To Fund Public Works Projects
From Standard Investors stand to win big as the country looks to the capital markets to raise billions of shillings needed to jump-start massive infrastructure projects. This comes as traditional...
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Africa’s Richest Man Aliko Dangote Will Invest In Tanzanian Coal Mine
From Forbes Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has announced new plans to invest an undisclosed sum in the development of a major coal mine in Tanzania, even as he continues to expand his business...
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To Contain Ebola, Fight It In Africa
From USA Today The first priority of federal health officials is to protect Americans from Ebola, but “an outbreak anywhere is potentially a threat everywhere,” the head of the Centers for Disease...
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#BringBackOurGirls: Boko Haram Mutates Into An Occupying Force
On Thursday the AFP news agency acquired a video purporting to show Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, taunting the Nigerian military, speaking in Arabic and the local Hausa language, all while...
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African Tech Startups See Nigeria As A Scale Up Market
Earlier this year, Nigeria’s finance minister and coordinating minister for the economy DrNgoziOkonjo-Iweala while hosting foreign investors from Great Britain said Nigeria was the best destination for...
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