India’s healthcare federation NATHEALTH and that of Africa -AHF- signed on Dec 12 an agreement to ramp up their cooperation in the health sector. The document, which was initialed during the India-Africa Health summit, has three key focuses namely investment, technology sharing, and public-private partnerships. Through this collaboration, India wants to help Africa improve its healthcare...

The Academy of Public Health, the flagship body of the West African Institute of Public Health, has named African Development Bank Group President Akinwumi Adesina and three other eminent persons as winners of its 2020 Distinguished Fellowship Award. Adesina, World Health Organisation(WHO)’s Tedros Ghebreyesus, Leith Greenslade of JustActions and Winnie Byanyima of the Joint United Nations...

Africa now counts over 2.3 million confirmed COVID-19 cases, of which roughly 2 million people have been able to recover. Unfortunately, we have registered over 55 300 deaths due to the pandemic. The African Union Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is notifying a “worrying increase” in reporting an estimated 10,000 new cases daily. These figures from the CDC are the most...

Huawei hosted its second annual TrustInTech Summit, which was attended by ICT industry experts, academia and economists from around the world. Speakers included Huawei's Executive Director of the Board and President of the Carrier Business Group, Ryan Ding, international investor Jim Rogers, GSMA CMO Stephanie Lynch-Habib, and others. Focusing on the new challenges the world faced in 2020, the...

In 2000 the United Nations drew up the Millennium Declaration in which world leaders committed to combatting poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, discrimination against women and vulnerable members of society. The goals agreed within this highly significant Millennium Declaration set the tone for many future U.N. agendas. Directly related to this ground-breaking...

In its consultation paper on Zimbabwe's national broadband plan, unveiled last week, the Zimbabwe Post and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (Potraz) expressed its ambition to connect all districts in the country to the Internet. For this project, the telecom regulator needs a total of $123 million. In the national broadband plan, Potraz explains that it wants to provide 1 Mbps...

The International Monetary Fund announced the disbursement of $278.2 million as part of the Extended Credit Facility and Extended Fund Facility arrangements with Côte d'Ivoire. In an official Dec 9 statement, the institution said this disbursement follows Côte d'Ivoire's good performance under the IMF-led reform program. Following the seventh and eighth reviews of the Extended Credit...

Investors & Partners (I&P), which finances and supports startups and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in sub-Saharan Africa, has invested in StarNews Mobile, a video content distribution platform launched in 2017 by Cameroonian Guy Kamgaing. The announcement was made on December 10, 2020, via a press release. This is the ninth investment made through the I&P Afrique entrepreneurs 2 fund...

The World Bank will dedicate 35% of its funding allocations for 2020-25 to climate projects. Over the past five years, the climate share was 28%. The institution also announced that half of this climate financing will be done through its members, including the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA). According to World...

The Emirati and Israeli satellite telecom operators, Yahsat and Spacecom, plan to collaborate with Geeks Without Frontiers to provide Internet connectivity in Africa for humanitarian purposes. The three parties discussed the issue on Wednesday, December 9, at the 9th annual Space Law Symposium, organized under the theme: " Africa – Humanitarian Satellite Connectivity During Crisis." The two...