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ONE of the noticeable things across Africa these days is how many people have cell phones—71 percent of adults in Nigeria, for example, 62 percent in Botswana, and more than half the population in Ghana and Kenya, according to a 2011 Gallup poll.
Cell phone use has grown faster in Africa than in any other region of the world since 2003, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and D
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has intercepted 12, 000 scam mails and recovered over £110 million from cybercriminals in the last three years.
Speaking at just concluded West African Cybercrime Summit in Abuja, a Principal Staff Officer in the EFCC, Barrister Bala Sanga, said the agency with its foreign collaborators had also stopped over 3,870 scam mails emanating from Ni
South Africa's Soweto Gospel Choir is looking forward to making space for another award in its already crowded trophy cabinet. The world-renowned singers have been nominated for a Grammy Award for their fifth album, Grace, in the Best Traditional World Music Album category.
It's the group's fourth Grammy nomination in five years. The albums Blessed and African Spirit won Grammys for Best Tradi
The World Food Program is teaming up with FAO, The European Union, the Gates Foundation and other agencies to help subsistence farmers increase their crop yields. WFP says 2010 has been a year with many climate-related emergencies, which have created havoc with the agricultural production of many developing countries.
Some of the most dramatic climate-related emergencies in the past year inclu
The World Bank forecast on Thursday that Kenya's economy will grow by between 5.3-6.0 percent anually over the next two years and raised its projection for 2010 by almost a full percentage point to 4.9 percent.
A strong performance in the agriculture and manufacturing sectors, higher public investment in infrastructure and rising confidence since the adoption of a new constitution will underpi
Zambian farmers could gain faster access to agricultural products and services with an electronic voucher scheme.
The ‘e-voucher project‘ the first of its kind on the continent, according to participant Mobile Transactions Zambia Limited (MTZL) covers the delivery of products including seeds, fertilisers and herbicides.
Initial tests carried out in 12 districts this summer showed promising
Johannesburg - Plans to create a one-stop border post between South Africa and Mozambique will advance with the opening of a single border post dedicated to the bus and minibus taxi industry, Business Day newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Chief executive of the Maputo Corridor Logistics Initiative (MCLI) Brenda Horne said the building of the single border facility for the passenger transport indu
Kenya and South Africa signed agreements on Friday aimed at improving commercial relations between the two regional economic powerhouses before a planned visit by President Jacob Zuma next year.
The deals were sealed during a visit by South African Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe to east Africa's biggest economy. He said his trip was to create a better environment for businessmen to trade f
The World Bank is planning to coordinate funding for 30 gigawatts (GW) of new power generation in Africa over the next five years, a senior official said on Monday.
"We are not going to finance everything ourselves, but how we can help leverage financing for that 30 gigawatts of additional capacity," Reynold Duncan, the bank's Africa energy specialist, told reporters on the sidelines of power
The South African National Energy Research Institute (Saneri) and the Department of Energy (DoE) have launched a pilot project aimed at turning Robben Island into a self-sufficient community that runs on green energy.
By using a hybrid approach to power generation, the Greening of Robben Island project will reduce the demand on the island’s infrastructures and its dependence on fossil fuels.
