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22 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
43 year-old Luca Attanasio, Italy's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, along with 30 year-old Vittorio Iacovacci, a military police officer, and a Congolese driver are dead after a United Nations' World Food Program convoy was attack nea...
18 Feb 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Scopeman
According to Shimansky’s History of Diamonds in South Africa the global history of diamonds dates back around 3.3 billion years, but diamonds were only discovered in Africa in 1867. South Africa’s first diamond was discovered on the banks of the Oran...
17 Feb 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Scopeman
There is some disconnect between rural Africa’s portrayal in the media and what it contributes to the economic transformation of Africa. Narratives like this (see image below this paragraph) further fuel that disconnect and consequently impact intere...
14 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
Guinea has officially declared an Ebola virus epidemic after at least three people died of the virus and four others fell ill with symptoms like diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding. This is the first time since 2016 that Guinea has confirmed deaths due...
10 Feb 2021 7 minute read 6 comments Heruvim78
I have the habit to skim through all the emerging projects and check some of them over time. I have some specific ways to measure them that most of the time have nothing to do with trading. Team members, are they anonymous or not? Activity and develo...
10 Feb 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Scopeman
It’s no secret that businesses in sub-Saharan Africa face several barriers when it comes to ease of doing business, despite some of the fastest growing economies in the world being located in this region. According to the Doing Business 2017 World Ba...
9 Feb 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Juan Molina
Since they learned about the new changes in WhatsApp policies, which, apparently, threaten the privacy of users' personal data, a massive migration of the user base to other platforms and messaging services has been unleashed. Much has been said abou...
9 Feb 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Scopeman
Katsina state in Nigeria is a beauty yet unexplored. Its vast lands that stretch far across the horizon, like an unending day, is but a little taste of what makes this place a tourist’s delight. Here are 10 amazing photos, all unfiltered nor edited,...
8 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Scopeman
Most economic transformations begin in rural areas. 637 million (61.6%) of Africans live in rural areas. If the potential of Africa’s rural areas is developed and harnessed, it would lead to significant increases in food production, job creation, and...
8 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
Three months after announcing the end of its 11th outbreak, the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ministry of Public Health announced that a new case of the Ebola virus has been detected in the town of Biena in the North Kivu province. According to heal...
