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Zimbabwe: Country Launches First Electric Taxi Service and Charging Network
VAYA Africa, a Mauritius-registered Transportation as a Service (TaaS) company, has launched an electric vehicle service in Zimbabwe as part…
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Lunar Eclipse June 5-6, 2020: Where to watch
By: Tech Desk | New Delhi | Published: June 3, 2020 12:16:03 pm Lunar Eclipse 2020 Date, Timings in India: The…
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Why interest rates are so high in Africa
WHEN ROBERT MATSIKO was a young man his grain-milling business in Sheema, western Uganda, was destroyed by fire. These days,…
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Scientists reveal energy exchange between troposphere and ionosphere in Congo Basin
An illustration of the atmospheric wave dynamics from convective processes and ionospheric responses. Credit: Babalola Ogunsua The Earth's ionosphere, extending…
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African scientists leverage open hardware
A 2018 article in the journal HardwareX details “an open source hardware setup to measure locomotor activity in rodents”. It…
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South Africa partly lifts coronavirus lockdown to revive economy
South Africa partly lifted a two-month-old coronavirus lockdown on Monday, letting people outside for work, worship, exercise or shopping, and…
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Mark Zuckerberg commits Facebook to $10 million donation to ‘groups working on racial justice’
Even as Facebook continues to take a hands-off approach to monitoring violent rhetoric and disinformation on its platform, the company…
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Black businesses hit hard by COVID-19 fight to stay afloat
Detroit -- Stephanie Byrd agonized over temporarily laying off nearly the entire staff at her family’s trio of Detroit businesses…
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Akinwumi Adesina: Why the US is targeting a flamboyant Nigerian banker
Image copyright Getty Images The US and the African Development Bank have fallen out over allegations of corruption against the…
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China in the driver’s seat amid calls for Africa debt relief
By Joe Bavier, Cheng Leng and Andrea ShalalJOHANNESBURG/BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Support is growing for debt relief to help the world's…
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Speech recognition systems have higher error rates for black people, study finds
Pardon? Image: DigitalVision Vectors / getty By Jack Morse2020-03-24 01:44:18 UTC No, you're not just imagining it. Speech recognition systems…
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Russian trolls are outsourcing to Africa to stoke US racial tensions
With tech companies wise to many of the tactics that Russia’s now-infamous troll farms used to seed disinformation during the…
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African governments team up with tech giants to fight coronavirus lies
ABUJA (Reuters) - Governments across Africa are teaming up with technology giants including Facebook and WhatsApp to fight misinformation about…
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Spencon: Inside the collapse of an African construction giant
Spencon was once one of the largest construction firms in East Africa. After years of financial trouble, two highly-paid British…
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Safaricom, Vodacom finalise M-Pesa acquisition from Britain’s Vodafone
FILE PHOTO: A customer conducts a mobile money transfer, known as M-Pesa, at a Safaricom agent stall in Nairobi, Kenya…
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