Promoting Africa
Among the sustainable development goals (SDGs), goal number three is to promote and ensure good health and well being of people of all ages by promoting preventive and curative or generally provision and access to universal healthcare. In line with this SDG, focusing on health, actions are encouraged to foster public health, including different actions,…
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On Thursday, October 24, 2019, evening, through a press release signed by the Chairman of the board, the board of directors of Safaricom PLC confirmed that it had settled for Mr. Peter Ndegwa, a technocrat with more than 25 years’ experience in various business areas, as the CEO to take office from April 1, 2020.…
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The long awaited African free-trade zone came into force last Thursday, a step toward creating what the African Union (AU) hopes will be a continent-wide market of 1.2 billion people worth $2.5 trillion. Fifty-two of the AU’s 55 member states have signed the agreement to establish the free trade area since March 2018, with the…
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On April 24, the Ghanaian Government, in partnership with American company Zipline, launched in the city of Omenako, the world’s largest medical drone delivery service. The new service will use drones to make on-demand, emergency deliveries of 148 different vaccines, blood products, and life-saving medications. Already hundreds of drones have started delivering life-saving vaccines, blood…
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Addis Ababa has now expanded terminals of the Bole International Airport, and Ethiopian Airlines inaugurated a huge five-star hotel complex near the Airport. Now one of the biggest airport in Africa, Bole International Airport can host 22 million passengers annually from its current 7 million. With this, Addis Ababa is set to cement its place…
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Zimbabwe and Zambia have offered 2,000 and 132 hectares of land respectively around the Victoria Falls area for the construction of the Wakanda One Village. The Wakanda One Village Project The project which takes its name from the technologically advanced, fictitious African country from Marvel’s Black Panther superhero franchise, consist of five African Centers of…
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Addis Ababa has overtaken Dubai as a destination and transfer hub for long-haul passengers to Africa, thanks to the reforms of the new Ethiopian administration. According to ForwardKeys, Addis Ababa airport has increased the number of international transfer passengers to sub-Saharan Africa for five years in a row, and in 2018 has surpassed Dubai, one…
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