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Dash, the Ghanaian fintech has shut down. The startup raised $86.1 million in five years and attracted big-name investors. It raised $32.8 million in a seed round—the second largest seed round for an African startup—in 2021.
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— Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) November 12, 2020
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[Ethiopian Herald] The African Continental Free Trade Area is a game changer for investment on the continent which in recent years has seen foreign direct investment continuing to weaken, Economic Commission of Africa's Regional Integration and Trade Division Director, Stephen Karingi, said, according to United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.
[Ghanaian Times] The World Bank Group (WBG) will continue to support African governments' efforts to ensure fast recovery from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Country Director for the World Bank, Pierre Laporte, has said.
A Royal African Company ship that carried more African slaves to the Americas than any other institution in the history of the Atlantic... View Article
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CHILD PRODIGY Joshua Beckford, who was the youngest student to attend Oxford University, is fundraising to build a comprehensive school in Nigeria, his father says. Beckford grew up in Tottenham and has high functioning autism and Aspergers.
Analysis - COVID-19 travel restrictions are adding to the growing pressure on observer missions to prove their worth.
[Ghanaian Times] Rwanda on Wednesday opened its High Commission in Ghana with the aim of strengthening the bilateral ties between both countries.
WORLD Channel, a national public media broadcast, online and social media platform with news and documentaries humanizing complex issues from across the globe, is presenting Race in America, a series of iconic documentaries and events exploring historical and cultural stories about race and civil rights in America.
Today is the 310th day of 2020. There are 56 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2010: Jamaican social anthropologist Professor Barry Chevannes loses his battle with pancreatic cancer.�OTHER EVENTS1605: English authorities arrest Guy Fawkes, the leader of the 'Gunpowder Plot' to blow up the Houses of Parliament.1630: Treaty of Madrid ends Anglo-Spanish War.
The UK has moved a step closer to signing a sixth trade deal in Africa on 3 November 2020, as negotiations on a trade deal are finalised with Kenya. The agreement will ensure all companies operating in Kenya, including British businesses, can continue to benefit from duty-free access as they export products including vegetables and […]
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EVERY so often, a pandemic emerges that dramatically alters human society. The Black Death (1347-1351) was one; the Spanish flu of 1918 was another. Now there’s COVID-19. GUEST COLUMN: SHADRECK CHIRIKURE Archaeologists have long studied diseases in past populations. To do so, they consider a wide array of evidence: settlement layout, burials, funerary remains, and human skeletons. For example, because of archaeologists we know that the damaging impact of epidemics prompted the abandonment of settlements at Akrokrowa in Ghana during the early 14th century. About 76 infant burial sites at an abandoned settlement that now forms part of the Mapungubwe World Heritage site in the Limpopo Valley of South Africa suggest a pandemic hit the people living there after 1000 AD. Archaeological and historical insights also expose some of the strategies that societies adopted to deal with pandemics. These included burning settlements as a disinfectant and shifting settlements to new locations. Social distancing was practised by dispersing settlements. Archaeologists’ findings at Mwenezi in southern Zimbabwe also show that it was a taboo to touch or interfere with remains of the dead, lest diseases be transmitted in this way. In the late 1960s, some members of an archaeological dig excavating 13th century house floors in Phalaborwa, South Africa, refused to keep working after encountering burials they believed were sacred. They also worried that the burials were related to a disease outbreak. Social distancing and isolation have become watchwords during the COVID-19 pandemic. From archaeology, we know that the same practices formed a critical part of managing pandemics in historical African societies. In what is Zimbabwe today, the Shona people in the 17th and 18th centuries isolated those suffering from infectious diseases — such as leprosy — in temporary residential structures. This meant that very few people could come into contact with the sick. In some cases, corpses were burnt to avoid spreading the contagion. Humans have a propensity to relax and shift priorities once calamities are over. Data collected by archaeologists, that show how indigenous knowledge systems helped ancient societies in Africa deal with the shock of illness and pandemics, can help remind policymakers of different ways to prepare modern societies for the same issues. Social distancing and isolation Research at the early urban settlement of K2, part of the Mapungubwe World Heritage site, has thrown significant light on ancient pandemics. The inhabitants of K2 (which dates back to between 1 000AD and 1 200AD) thrived on crop agriculture, cattle raising, metallurgy, hunting and collecting food from the forest. They had well-developed local and regional economies that fed into international networks of exchange with the Indian Ocean rim. Swahili towns of East Africa acted as conduits. Archaeological work at K2 uncovered an unusually high number of burials (94), 76 of which belonged to infants in the 0-4 age category. This translated into a mortality rate of 5%
(RNS) — The 27-year-old Black, nonbinary community organizer said she has heard from many who 'didn’t feel like they had a place in politics.'
[Nation] In June 2015, two months after al-Shabaab terrorists killed 148 people - mostly students - in an attack on Garissa University College, former Ghanaian president Jerry Rawlings sat down for an interview with the Sunday Nation.
MULTIPLE BRIT Award winning artist Emeli Sandé released her new song ‘More of You’, a...
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