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Kubik is proud of its pioneering, climate-friendly technology that recycles one of the world’s environmental curses — plastic waste  into construction blocks. But for the award-winning Ethiopian startup to achieve liftoff has been no easy task. It has had to fight tooth and nail to raise funds, says its youthful boss. Kubik takes in bundles of discarded plastic and sorts… Read More

International NGO, Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), called on Friday for the “immediate” resumption of food aid distribution in Ethiopia. The call comes after the US government and the UN Food Programme (WFP) suspended food aid in May to the northern region of Tigray later applying this decision to the rest of the country. According to the NGO, Ethiopia is experiencing… Read More

Twitter has threatened legal action against Meta over its new text-based app called Threads, which has drawn tens of millions of users since launching this week as a rival to Elon Musk’s social media platform. In a letter Wednesday to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Alex Spiro, an attorney representing Twitter, accused Meta of unlawfully using Twitter’s trade secrets and other… Read More

Opponent Ousmane Sonko on Thursday promised elections in Senegal in “indescribable chaos” if his 2024 presidential candidacy is prevented, during his first speech since President Macky Sall announced on Monday that he was not running for a third mandate. “There will be no election in this country, or else it will be in indescribable chaos if President Macky Sall wants… Read More

A Senegalese opponent is in police custody on Thursday after publicly questioning the withdrawal of President Macky Sall, who announced on Monday that he would not seek a third term in 2024, his lawyer told AFP. Birame Souleye Diop, chairman of the parliamentary group of the opposition coalition Yewwi Askan Wi and executive of Pastef, the party of Ousmane Sonko,… Read More

The Democratic Republic of Congo boosted its credit rating from 5.1 to 5.5 between 2022 and 2023, according to thepan-African rating agency Bloomfield. The sub-Saharan country has one of the highest growth rates in the region. The DRC gained 40 basis points in the space of a year which is helping to boost the nation’s economic profile.  The second edition… Read More

Three individuals employed by a prominent food manufacturer in Kenya have been arrested following reports of forcibly stripping female staff members to determine their menstrual status, according to local media. Brown’s Food Company expressed sadness over the incident, emphasizing that it does not align with the company’s overall procedures. Senator Gloria Orwoba brought the incident to public attention through a… Read More

Temperatures remained high in Egypt’s capital, Cairo, as local residents struggled to keep cool. Last week, Egypt experienced one of its many summer heatwaves, with temperatures soaring above 37.7 degrees Celsius, according to Egypt’s national weather forecaster. Globally, Earth’s average temperature on Wednesday remained at an unofficial record high set the day before, the latest grim milestone in a week… Read More

After more than 90 years serving bread to tourists, local residents and even Popes, the historic Panificio Arrigoni in Rome’s Borgo Pio neighbourhood is closing doors this Saturday. The owner, Angelo Arrigoni, claims that lack of customers and rising energy costs were the main reasons for the decision. “For the residents of this area, since it is convenient to give… Read More

South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, met this Thursday with DRC president, Félix Tshisekedi, at the Presidential Palace in Kinshasa. The South African leader is on a two-day visit to the country to discuss security and trade. Both leaders are also attending the DRC-South Africa Economic Forum, which brings together around a hundred businessmen from the two countries. On Tuesday, the… Read More