By CGTN Africa Kenya’s telecom operator Safaricom and Visa, the global leader in digital payments launched the M-pesa visa virtual card on Thursday to facilitate payments for Kenyan global shoppers. According to a statement by Safaricom, the new M-Pesa Visa virtual cards will open global shopping for Kenyan consumers allowing secure cashless payments at merchant locations…
OSUN, NIGERIA — As health authorities in Europe and elsewhere roll out vaccines and drugs to stamp out the biggest monkeypox outbreak beyond Africa, some doctors acknowledge an ugly reality: The resources to slow the disease’s spread have long been available, just not to the Africans who have dealt with it for decades. Countries including Britain,…
By Christine Maema COVID-19 deaths in the African region are expected to decline by almost 94% in 2022, compared with 2021 which was the pandemic’s most lethal year, a new modeling by World Health Organization (WHO) finds. This comes while cases are estimated to drop by a little over a quarter this year. The analysis, which…
By David Ochieng Mbewa The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for a united global response to monkeypox rather than two different ones: one for Western countries and another one for Africa. The world is currently experiencing an outbreak that the WHO has described as “atypical” as many cases are being reported in non-endemic countries that…
As of June 1, 2022, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 11,726,101 while 300,069,590 vaccinations have been administered across the continent. Use allAfrica’s interactive map with per-country numbers. https://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00072212.html
Rwanda will visit Mozambique on 2 June (matchday 1) before hosting Senegal on 7 June (matchday 2) for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers (Group L). The Amavubi will face the Mambas in South Africa, who do not have an approved stadium on their soil. But instead of hosting the Lions of Teranga at…
In Cameroon nearly 150 manatees, an endangered aquatic species also known as sea cow, are killed each year by poachers or fisherman, often unintended by the latter. An aid group has created a mobile app to collect data to help reduce manatee deaths. Anne Nzouankeu reports from lake Ossa, Cameroon. Source: VOA
Reuters The South African rand slipped on Tuesday, as the dollar bounced back supported by demand for safe havens over ongoing inflation concerns. At 1549 GMT, the rand traded at 15.6050 against the dollar, 0.89% weaker than its previous close. The dollar index strengthened as Treasury yields climbed and worries over a further acceleration in…
Reuters KAMPALA — Ugandan researchers have developed low-cost air quality monitoring sensors that work in extreme conditions and will allow Uganda to switch from expensive imported monitors in its bid to tackle rising air pollution. Kampala, Uganda’s capital home to two million people, ranks among the world’s most polluted cities, with pollution levels up to seven…
By David Ochieng Mbewa The Central Bank of Kenya on Monday raised its key interest rate by 50 basis points to 7.5 percent in a bid to contain rising inflation and stabilise the country’s currency, the Shilling. The interest rate increase is the first such move in close to seven years. The CBK said that inflation…
