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Malawi President and Ministers Take 10% Pay Cut

5 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite

Malawi President Mutharika announced that he along with all government ministers will be taking a 10% wage cut for 3 months to raise funds to combat the Covid-19 Coronavirus pandemic. President Mutharika earns the equivalent of $3,600 United States d...

Imani: Book Review

4 Apr 2020 2 minute read 0 comments troynamps

Title: Imani Author: Liliane Mukidi ISBN: 978-0-9947229-2-8 Release Date: 10 November, 2018 Imani is a book written to speak louder than our imaginary voices. It brings a better appreciation of the fact that literature is the mirror through which so...

Tunisia Deploys Police "Robots" Amid Covid-19 Pandemic

3 Apr 2020 1 minute read 1 comment AverageVancouverite

To ensure that citizens are following guidelines amid a lockdown to reduce the spread of the Covid-19 Coronavirus, 4-wheeled police robots known as "PGuards" have been deployed to patrol areas of the Tunisian capital city of Tunis. Local media say th...

13 Year-Old Kenyan Boy Shot During Covid-19 Curfew

1 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite

Kenya's police inspector general has ordered an investigation and forensic analysis of all firearms held by officers on duty in the Huruma-Mathare area of Nairobi after the shooting and subsequent death of a 13 year-old boy named Yasin Hussein Moyo....

Mali to Hold Elections Despite Covid-19 Pandemic

29 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite

A day after the nation's first confirmed Covid-19 coronavirus death, Mali announced that citizens will be able to go to the polls to vote in long-delayed parliamentary elections. The last parliamentary elections held happened in 2013, when currently...

An Update on the Covid-19 Pandemic - Focus on Africa

17 Mar 2020 1 minute read 3 comments AverageVancouverite

An estimated 7,000 are dead as about 180,000 people worldwide have tested positive for the Covid-19 (Sars-CoV-2) coronavirus. Over 145 nations or territories have confirmed cases of the pathogen so far. In this brief report, we present the latest inf...

How You Can Profit From Inflation

28 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Nengi147

The rich people learned how to make money during inflation period through leverage and hedging.   Here’s what I says:   I play the bank’s game. I borrow money from the bank at a fixed rate okay, buy a cash flowing asset that covers the debt payment,...

Travel Morocco - Essaouira - A Breath of Fresh Air

21 Feb 2020 3 minute read 0 comments Disembogart

There's no need to be salty. Essaouira is a stunning city. This ancient port lies on the Atlantic coast and is frankly quite charming. It's like Marrakech on tranquillisers, it must be something to do with the sea air. All the standard tourist traps...

The context of crypto in Africa: There's still so much to be learned!

22 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments alberdioni8406

Africa has potential to become a strong environment to cryptocurrency and Blockchain, due to it's population and the desire to become financial independent where most, are young, but the continent still have places that never heard a word about Bitco...

Wandering Around Old Town Mombasa, Kenya

18 Jan 2020 2 minute read 2 comments joshman

The Old Town area of Mombasa is located on Mombasa Island in the same area as Fort Jesus.  Please check out my blog on Fort Jesus in case you missed it. To start out my tour of Old Town, I had my Uber driver drop me off at the famous elephant tusks. ...