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Founded 13 years ago to digitise payments for Nigerians, Paga has since grown into a fintech giant offering not only consumer-focused mobile payments but also a host of B2B payments and infrastructure services.
The president also stressed the importance of keeping the economy open after months of stifling movement restrictions.
He urged citizens not to drop their guard and continue adhering to the health rules, such as wearing face masks and respecting curfew times.
South Africa has recorded just over 800,000 coronavirus infections - more than a third of the cases reported across the African continent - and over 20,000 deaths.
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[Shabelle] Somalia on Tuesday missed a deadline to hold its parliamentary elections on Dec. 1 as agreed by the federal government and six regional states earlier this year.
[Thomson Reuters Foundation] London -- As climate impacts and the COVID-19 pandemic take their toll, what makes people and nature resilient needs a rethink, Johan Rockstrom says
By Andrew Lawrence - Andrew Lawrence The former NFL player believes uncomfortable conversations are a way of bridging the racial divide. So he wrote a book about them. What’s in a name? Power, says Emmanuel [...]
[ANGOP] According to the spokesman for the event, Adriano Campos, the conference will also serve to formalise and launch the ECOWAS Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Angola.
[Nation] A plaque in recognition of Iten township in Elgeyo-Marakwet County as a global World Athletics Heritage landmark was unveiled on Thursday in a function graced by Sports, Culture and Heritage Cabinet secretary Amina Mohammed.
All things being equal, Nigerian-born attorney Adewale Adeyemo will become the next Deputy Secretary of Treasury on the United States in the incoming Joe Biden administration expected to begin on January 20 next year. If confirmed by lawmakers, Adeyemo, 39, will deputize for Janet Yellen, 74, a former Federal Reserve nominated by the president-elect a...
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Interview - After training for hours on end, year after year, some women athletes – particularly those competing on the world stage – are getting their careers and successes ripped away because of “sex testing,” practices, which are invasive and medically unnecessary procedures based on disputed science that dictates what “natural” testosterone levels can be for women, and the role it plays in performance. Women from the global south are disproportionately targeted. Sporting officia
[ANGOP] Luanda -- Angola was elected Monday to the rotating presidency of the Conference of Ministers of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), for the mandate of the year (2021).
[Premium Times] The confirmation is for a second and final term.
[IPS] Mbabane -- Placing an online order for farming inputs saves Velebantfu Dlamini about USD12 in transport fees for a round trip of about 320 kilometres. The 26-year-old vegetable farmer from Nkhungwini in the Shiselweni Region, south of Eswatini, uses a portal to order from the National Agriculture Marketing Board (NAMBoard) Farm Store. NAMBoard then delivers his order leaving Dlamini with time to stay in the field and look after his crops.
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 December 2020: The search is on for Sub-Saharan African start-ups with tech solutions aimed at impacting positively lower income communities through those industries. Seedstars and Shell Foundation have joined forces to look for sustainable, scalable and innovative start-ups addressing universal access to energy-related challenges, as well [Read More]
[New Times] A plenary sitting of the Chamber of Deputies has approved the relevance of the draft law governing partnerships, which seeks to fill the gap caused by lack of a regulatory framework.
[spotlight] Children shoulder approximately 12% of the global TB burden, and this proportion is likely higher in high TB burden countries. In South Africa, up to 30 000 children develop TB each year, but, says Dr Megan Palmer, medical director at Brooklyn Chest Hospital, \"children have traditionally been neglected in TB research because of the perception that they are not drivers of the TB epidemic\".
Ghanaians will be voting on December 7, 2020 in general elections. The keenly watched poll is a re-election push for the two main presidential candidates. Incumbent Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and former president John Dramani Mahama.
The winner will be serving their second and final term as president of one of Africa’s stable democracies. The vote is the eighth consecutive since the return to multi-party democracy in 1992.
The voting process
Ghana employs a series of processes in ensuring transparency, fairness and credibility of the polls.
The main elements include use of ballot papers, biometric verification processes, a secret ballot and transparent ballot boxes. The ballot papers are foldable sheets of paper bearing details of each candidate. It has three slots per candidate – the photo, the party’s symbol and a space for the thumbprint mark. Ballot papers are the basic voting material.
But before a person is handed the ballot paper, he or she must have presented their voters card at a polling station and gone through biometric identification process, which involves placing their finger on a biometric verification device (BVD).
If it fails to recognize their details, there is room for a manual process after the party officials and Electoral Commission, EC, are satisfied with the processes. A person with a stamped ballot then enters a voting booth where they are supposed to cast their ballot and fold their papers before dropping it in a transparent box set in the open.
Ghana previously used opaque boxes and with that there were reports of ballot stuffing in party strongholds especially, hence after a series of electoral reform proposals the transparent ballot boxes were adopted in 2000.
Major figures around the poll / declaring a winner
Over 17 million voters were registered in a contentious compilation of a new register earlier this year. The main opposition National Democratic Congress, NDC; called the move unnecessary but it was defended by the ruling New Patriotic Party.
The number of voters is two million up from the 15 million that were captured for the 2016 election. Being a general election, voters will elect a president and some 275 members of parliament across the 16 regions.
There are a total of 33,000 polling stations as against (over 28,000 stations in 2016) dotted across the country where the EC will be supervising affairs with security agencies to conduct the country’s eighth successive general election.
After voting, counting and collation takes place. The former at the polling station before certified figures are then transmitted to the constituency collation centers. From that point, parliamentary results are declared.
In the case of the presidential race, results are counted and transmitted to collation centers from where there is an onward transfer to the national collation center where the EC boss acts as a returning officer and thus the only person bound by law to declare a president-elect.
Ghana operates the usual 50%+1 rule for a c
[DW] HIV infection rates are falling in many African countries, and effective drugs are increasing the life expectancy of patients. But the coronavirus pandemic has meant a major setback in the fight against AIDS.
The holidays are now upon us, and while things may be different this year, shoppers are still eager to get stylish outfits for the festive season and beyond. Unfortunately, the billion-dollar fashion industry has contributed greatly to the global climate crisis. According to the Fashion Industry Report's Pulse, the business was responsible for 1.7 billion tonnes of carbon…
An elderly woman in Los Angeles woman whose car was destroyed by gang members in what the police called a 'hate crime' was gifted a new one days ago. The LAPD partnered up with East LA Auto Sales, the L.A. Police Protective League, the nonprofit group Badge of Heart, and the union for LAPD officers...
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[New Times] Rwanda National Police (RNP), on Tuesday, December 1, paraded to the media a man suspected to have been issuing forged documents.
Interview - How has Covid-19 affected HIV services in Africa?
[PR Newswire] London -- Three-day virtual event from 1 December to 3 December will bring together the very best in UK and African legal expertise.
Ethiopia’s month-long war in its northern Tigray region has severely hampered efforts to fight one of Africa’s worst coronavirus outbreaks,... View Article
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Black Leadership Matters Dr. David E. Jackson @dejacksonii Black lives matter – shout it from the housetops! But merely asserting the value of African-American lives is not enough to get our people to the promised land; nor is any party, politician, or program. Black lives matter most when they have purpose, and purpose comes from … Continued
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[Nairobi News] Kenyan afro-pop band Sauti Sol has joined the bandwagon of Kenyans who are opposed to the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) report and looming referendum.
Allen Media Group founder Byron Allen announced on Friday (Dec.4) the Grio.TV will be apart of the rebranding of his newly acquired MGM over-the-air broadcast network Light TV into a channel that will focus on African American-featured content.
