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3 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Scopeman $0.06
According to a 2015 World Bank report on Sub-Saharan Africa’s housing sector, there could be as many as 1.2 billion urban dwellers by 2050 and 4.5 million new residents in informal settlements each year, most of whom cannot afford basic formal housin...
28 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite $0.07
At least 19 people are confirmed dead while about 185 others were injured after two trains collided near the town of Tahta in the Egyptian province of Sohag. According Egyptian railway authorities, someone activated the emergency brakes on the passen...
16 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Scopeman $0.04
Four West African countries (Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon) are responsible for producing up to 70% of the world’s cocoa beans. Ivory Coast and Ghana together produce 60% of the world’s cocoa. However, of the over $100 billion spent annual...
22 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite $0.26
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 $0.01
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 $0.02
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 $0.06
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 $0.11
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 $0.02
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 $0.06
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...
