Fintech companies are leveraging digital technology to address challenges in healthcare, agriculture, and e-commerce. Many countries in Africa are looking for means to grow their economies to beat the pandemic-era downturn and debt vulnerability. Sopnendu Mohanty, chairman of the Board, Elevandi and the chief FinTech officer, at Monetary Authority of Singapore, joined us in studio to share his thoughts on the South-South… Read More

African leaders seeking to help bring an end to the war agreed on Monday to a mediation mission to Russia and Ukraine in mid-June, the South African presidency announced on Tuesday. Last month, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa had indicated that his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky, had agreed to host this peace mission made up… Read More

Malians go to the polls on Sunday to pass judgment on the governing junta’s constitution, which has fuelled speculation that the country’s strongman ruler will seek election. The vote is the first organised by the military since it seized power in August 2020 of a country gripped for years by a political, security and economic crisis. Those problems remain largely… Read More

A small fish is dangled under the beak of an emaciated penguin at a South African clinic, to whet the bird’s appetite. The sickly animal is among dozens undergoing treatment in the coastal town of Gqeberha, where a dedicated rehabilitation centre is on a mission to bring African penguins back from the brink of extinction. “We are trying to reverse… Read More

Zeinab was trying to flee war-torn Khartoum in order to seek safety. But paramilitary fighters she met didn’t let her nor women embarking on the same journey escape unharmed. In mid-May, one month after fighting broke between Sudan’s army chief and his deputy (head of the paramilitary group RSF) Zeinab says, herself, her sister and other women who were fleeing Khartoum… Read More