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By the end of May 2022, total funds raised by African start-ups amounted to $2.7 billion. From January to May, funds raised by Egyptian start-ups increased by 212% compared to the same period last year. With $81 million raised as of May 2022, the value of investments raised by Egyptian start-ups is the highest in the MENA region, comprising North… Read More

A group of Sahelian and West African NGOs denounced the essentially security-based approach of the Malian, Burkinabe and Nigerian authorities, which undermines the security of civilians, in a report made public Thursday. The Citizens’ Coalition for the Sahel, an informal alliance of dozens of civil society organizations, makes a harsh assessment of the “all-military” strategy of the powers that be,… Read More

A demonstrator was killed Thursday in a crackdown on ongoing protests in Sudan nearly eight months after a military coup upended the transition to civilian rule, doctors said. The pro-democracy doctors’ union said the protester, yet to be identified, was “shot dead” by security forces in Omdourman, a western suburb of Khartoum. This death brings to 102 the number of… Read More

Victims of a litany of crimes committed since Mali’s independence up to the now-troubled years of jihadi insurgency, shared their testimony during the latest Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission hearing. The mechanism was set up in 2015. In a Bamako hall, civilians, researchers, and army officials attend the fifth hearing of the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission. Victims of a… Read More

The 6th edition of Vivatech, a major international event for innovation and digital technology, has just opened in Paris. More than 400 startups from all over the world are here to showcase their latest developments. This year, Vivatech entered a partnership with the IFC to launch the Africa Tech Awards. An initiative that rewards three of the most innovative African… Read More

Africa wants to be adequately prepared for a monkeypox outbreak as cases have been confirmed in eight countries across the continent. In an online press conference Thursday, Dr Matshidiso Moeti the WHO Regional Director for Africa reiterated, her desire for the continent to avoid experiencing the inequalities noted in the Covid-19 response. “As WHO in Africa, we are already ramping… Read More

More than 600 Burkinabe have taken refuge in northern Togo in recent days, fleeing jihadist attacks in southeastern Burkina Faso, the National Agency for Civil Protection (ANPC) of Togo told AFP on Wednesday A total of 602 Burkinabe refugees from Madjoari, in southeastern Burkina Faso, have been counted in the prefecture of Tône, in the far north of Togo, police… Read More

The Congolese authorities decided on Thursday to fight “stigmatisation” and “manhunting” in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where a Tutsi-dominated rebellion, supported by Rwanda, is occupying several localities in the east, according to state television, RTNC. During a demonstration against the rebellion of the March 23 Movement (M23) on Wednesday in Goma (North Kivu, east), violence targeted Rwandophones (Hutu and… Read More

Ugandan opposition leader and former presidential candidate Kizza Besigye has been jailed and charged with inciting violence for the second time in a month, his lawyer announced Thursday. A longtime critic of President Yoweri Museveni, Kizza Besigye, 66, has recently led several protests against the rising cost of living in Uganda, as well as the entire African continent, as a… Read More

Last updated: 52 minutes ago One month ahead of President Joe Biden’s trip to Saudi Arabia, the District of Columbia is renaming the street in front of the Saudi embassy Jamal Khashoggi Way, trolling Riyadh for its role in the killing of the dissident Saudi activist and journalist in 2018. With members of the D.C. Council in attendance, a Jamal… Read More