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Africa: Tyme Is Africa’s Newest Unicorn After Raising $250m At $1.5b Valuation

TLDR Tyme Group, the digital banking firm backed by South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe, raised $250 million in its latest funding round pushing its valuation to $1.5 billion Latin America’s Nu Holdings led the round with a $150 million investment, marking its bet on fintech growth in Southeast Asia and Africa The funding underscores growing […]

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Africa: How Bad Is Air Pollution in Africa? If Only We Knew

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The health risk seems to be rising in most African countries but without monitoring, effective intervention is difficult. Each year, air pollution contributes to more than 8 million premature deaths globally. This tragic statistic is closely intertwined with the climate crisis yet is rarely talked about in conversations about climate change. As a continent, Africa

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Africa: Interlinked Solutions Key to Tackling Biodiversity, Water, Food, Health and Climate Change, Says IPBES

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Windhoek & Bulawayo — Biological diversity is on the decline worldwide, and current approaches to address its loss have been piecemeal and ineffective in tackling the crisis facing nature–this is despite estimates that over half of global GDP (USD 58 trillion of economic activity in 2023) is generated in sectors that are moderately to highly

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Africa: A Most Heinous – Yet Unprosecuted – Crime – Inequality

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Madrid — Planet Earth is drying up, relentlessly. Over three-quarters of all lands have become permanently drier in the last three decades. This is not jut a statistic but a stark scientific fact. But while such an ‘existential crisis’ affects nearly every region, guess where -and who- are the most hit? They are the 1.35

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Africa: Win-Win Cooperation With Africa Is China’s Priority

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The beginning of the 21st century had a lot of doubt on the future of China-Africa relations. An emerging China, back then, was described in some sections of the media as “an imperial power”, “an exploiting partner” and in other contexts, a “bully”. Over two decades later, China has not, in any way, exhibited any

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Africa: Military Junta Suspends BBC for Three Months

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The three-month suspension was announced following BBC reports about a jihadist attack in the Tillaberi region on Tuesday, 10 December, in which 90 soldiers and at least 50 civilians were said to have been killed by the jihadists. The Junta had called the BBC report ‘baseless assertions and a campaign of intoxication orchestrated by adversaries

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Africa: Lookman Emerges Africa’s Best Player for 2024

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London — Super Eagles striker Ademola Lookman has been crowned African Player of the Year 2024. Atalanta of Italy star player clinched the prestigious award at a glittering ceremony held at the Palais des Congrès in Marrakech, Morocco, yesterday. The 27-year-old Nigerian beat off stiff competition from Morocco and PSG of France defender Achraf Hakimi,

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Africa: Dr Motsepe Confers CAF President’s Outstanding Achievement Award 2024 to President Paul Biya of Cameroon and President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi of Egypt

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The President of the Confédération Africaine de Football (“CAF”), Dr Patrice Motsepe, on Monday, 16 December 2024 conferred the CAF President’s Outstanding Achievement Award 2024 on Cameroon Head of State, President Paul Biya and Egypt Head of State President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. The CAF President’s Outstanding Achievement Award is in recognition and appreciation of the

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Africa: Ademola Lookman Voted 2024 Africa’s Best Player!

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*Chiamaka Nnadozie retains Best Goalkeeper award *Super Falcons Best Women’s National Team Nigeria and Atalanta FC of Italy forward, Ademola Lookman, has been voted as Africa’s Best Player at the 2024 CAF Awards which held in Marrakech, Morocco on Monday night. Lookman succeeded his national teammate, Victor Osimhen, who won it last year as Africa’s

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Africa: Financing Africa’s Future – allAfrica.com

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Bold international cooperation is essential to break Africa’s debt cycle and unlock sustainable development. Africa’s debt is rising roughly four times faster than its economic growth, jumping 10 percentage points from 2010 to constitute 29% of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2022. This alarming trajectory demands a rethink of how international partnerships could better support

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Africa: Tyme Is Africa’s Newest Unicorn After Raising $250m At $1.5b Valuation

Africa: How Bad Is Air Pollution in Africa? If Only We Knew

Africa: Interlinked Solutions Key to Tackling Biodiversity, Water, Food, Health and Climate Change, Says IPBES

Africa: A Most Heinous – Yet Unprosecuted – Crime – Inequality

Africa: Win-Win Cooperation With Africa Is China’s Priority

Africa: Military Junta Suspends BBC for Three Months

Africa: Lookman Emerges Africa’s Best Player for 2024

Africa: Dr Motsepe Confers CAF President’s Outstanding Achievement Award 2024 to President Paul Biya of Cameroon and President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi of Egypt

Africa: Ademola Lookman Voted 2024 Africa’s Best Player!

Africa: Financing Africa’s Future – allAfrica.com

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