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By Abdi Ali Published July 4, 2020 An initiative that aims at reaching and influencing behaviour of millions of unbanked young people across Africa by giving them the requisite financial literacy skills to become financially informed adults in the future…
By Abdi Ali Published June 17, 2020 A social networking platform has launched a programme to equip the youth across black Africa with digital skills. Facebook says its My Digital World initiative is a consolidation of all its digital literacy…
By Abdi Ali Published May 17, 2020 Is social distancing, wearing of masks and washing of hands all that matters during the dusk to dawn nationwide curfew and partial lockdown of the Nairobi Metropolitan Area or do you also dream…
By Iminza Keboge Published May 10, 2020 Rabha Ashry of Egypt has won the 2020 Brunel International African Poetry Prize. Ashry will receive a £3,000 honorarium while her winning selection of poems is now up on africanpoetryprize.org/, the Brunel University…
By Patricia Scotland Published April 25, 2020 Public parks have been gated shut, beaches emptied and stadia deserted, as an unprecedented 2.5 billion people across the world are forced to sit at home. As the Coronavirus spreads its tentacles across…
By Abdi Ali Published April 24, 2020 Two Goodwill Ambassadors for International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), United Nations’ specialised agency on rural development, have launched a global coronavirus relief fund to prevent economic shocks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic…
By Abdi Ali Published April 4, 2020 An Anti-Human Trafficking Child Protection Unit in Kenya’s second largest city, Mombasa, is expected to help in the fight against sexual predators and traffickers operating along the Kenyan Coast. Officially opened by the…
By Iminza Keboge Published February 19, 2020 A method for easily creating textbooks in Braille, with an initial focus on maths textbooks, has been developed. Experts from Britain’s University of Birmingham and US America’s Towson University in Maryland, University of…
By Khalifa Hemed Published February 5, 2020 Though 12 million graduates enter the African labour market annually, only three million of them get jobs. African Economic Outlook, an annually report by African Development Bank (AfDB) that provides updates and forecasts…
By Khalifa Hemed Published January 22, 2020 Primary and secondary school systems have a critical role to play in preparing the global citizens and workforces of the future. Schools of the Future: Defining New Models of Education for the Fourth…