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Rhinonomics: The horn laws. Why there is a bear market in rhinos
It is too expensive to protect them from poachers | Middle East & Africa (2023)
Why Kenya could take the lead in carbon removal
Geothermal energy and cheap talent offer comparative advantage | Middle East & Africa Carbon removal; the great carbon valley. Kenya is a surpri... (2023)
Africa’s debts. Africa faces a mounting debt crisis
Rising rates are hurting some of its brightest economic stars. Some of the continent’s brightest economic stars are in serious trouble (2023)
China and the West take a step to ease Africa’s debt crisis
A deal for Ghana is the first test case for a new approach. IMF, World Bank, the Paris Club, China and lending in Africa (2023)
The 10 Best Rafting Trips | Whitewater Guidebook
Here is my own personal top 10, my fave rafting trips from around the world organized by single-day, multi-day, and Class V rafting. (2019)
Tunisian enterprise AI startup InstaDeep raises $100M from BioNTech, Google
A recent survey carried out by CNBC reported that 81% of executives worldwide say AI will play a prominent and critical role in how their businesse... (2022)
Investing in Carry1st | Andreessen Horowitz
Carry1st is Africa's leading mobile games publisher, serving over 1 million users today. Most notably, Carry1st has aggregated Africa's disparate p... (2022)
Africa’s fintech firms vie for domination | The Economist
As investment pours in, they are expanding across the continent and into new services | Finance & economics (2021)
Germany is apologising for crimes a century ago in Namibia | The Economist
The slaughter of the Herero was genocide, says Berlin | Europe (2021)
Nigeria’s Kuda raises $10M to be the mobile-first challenger bank for Africa
The African continent is currently one of the fastest-growing regions when it comes to mobile growth, and financial technology companies that are b... (2020)
What Really Happens When You Donate Your Clothes—And Why It’s Bad
Blame fast fashion 80 percent is sent to textile recyclers who then determine the next cycle of the garment's life. Almost half of the donations... (2020)
Ethiopia’s Plans for the Renaissance Dam - Negotiations With Egypt and Sudan
As long as the Renaissance Dam remains an instrument in Ethiopia’s bid to control the Blue Nile, negotiations are doomed. (2020)
Hard work and black swans - Economists are turning to culture to explain wealth and poverty
As a result, the ideas of the earliest economists are being revised and improved (2020)
The Covid-19 vaccine gamble: where bets have been placed and why - World news
Wealthy nations have ordered millions of doses of unproven candidates, but equal access is the key to beating virus (2020)
“Instead of coronavirus, the hunger will kill us.” A global food crisis looms. — The New York Times
The world has never faced a hunger emergency like this, experts say. It could double the number of people facing acute hunger to 265 million by the... (2020)
Keeping Better Tabs On Startups In Africa – Crunchbase News (2019)
Yesterday a Kenyan startup called Twiga Foods raised $30 million from Goldman Sachs, including a $23.75 million equity investment and $6.25 million... (2019)
Marrakesh Travel Guide: What to See, Do, Costs, & Ways to Save - Nomadic Matt
A comprehensive budget travel guide to Marrakesh, Morocco with advice on things to see & do, ways to save money, where to stay, and cost information. (2019)
Rwanda just released the first smartphone made entirely in Africa (fastcompany.com)
Rwanda is becoming an innovation and tech hub. Rwanda’s Mara X, Z are the first smartphones made fully in Africa... (2019)
The most unusual ways many African countries got their names - QZ
Lots of Greek, Latin and Portuguese roots to many nation states created after the Scramble for Africa (2019)
An exhilarating train journey across the Sahara - BBC - Travel
Since 1963, Mauritania’s 2km-long Train du Desert has carried iron ore and brave passengers 704km across the Sahara Desert. (2019)
How Africa is seizing an AI opportunity - Fast Company
Despite visa problems and limited resources, African technologists are only accelerating their research. Can they make AI work for the continent? (2019)
Electricity does not change poor lives as much as was thought - The Economist
More light, less clarity THOUGH SHE lives in one of the world’s poorest countries, Drocella Yandereye is a picture of upward mobility. Her small... (2019)
Partech is doubling the size of its African venture fund to $143 million – TechCrunch
The Partech Africa Fund plans to make 20 to 25 investments across roughly 10 countries over the next several years. (2019)
Connecting African software developers with top tech companies nets Andela $100 million – TechCrunch
Andela, the company that connects Africa’s top software developers with technology companies from the U.S. and around the world, has raised $100 mi... (2019)
Endangered Baobab Trees: Are They Victims of the Effects of Climate Change?
Learn about one of the world's most iconic tree species, the baobab tree, and discover why these endangered trees might be on their way to extincti... (2019)
Venture capital, global expansion, blockchain and drones characterize African tech in 2018 – TechCrunch
TechCrunch - Reporting on the business of technology, startups, venture capital funding, and Silicon Valley (2018)
Can the world produce enough cobalt for electric vehicles? - Battery farming - The Economist
THE ONLY thing that can accelerate as fast as an electric car is the price of the most expensive metal in its batteries. Once a niche input used to... (2018)
African Americans, Caribbean diaspora's return to Africa is Ghana — Quartz Africa
Right from the founding of modern Ghana Kwame Nkrumah preached pan-Africanism that transcended the shores of Africa. (2018)
Trouble in the Congo: The Misadventures of Glencore — Business Week
What a time to own the world’s most valuable cobalt mine, and to have to fight to keep it. (2018)
Why Europe should focus on its growing interdependence with Africa - The Economist
IT IS a peculiarly modern habit to think of the Mediterranean Sea as a boundary. For over two millennia, civilisations bled across it and interming... (2018)
A Billion More People Are About to Transform the Internet | The Future With Hannah Fry
Soon, another billion people will be online, mostly from developing nations. How will these new users embrace this technology to transform their li... (2024)
Lagos: Nigeria’s Growth Is Unsustainable. Here’s Why.
Nigeria’s Growth Is Unsustainable. Here’s Why. (2024)
Cocoa farming and Chocolate: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver discusses chocolate, cocoa farming, and, of course, some facts that will make Halloween a little weird.Connect with Last Week Tonight o... (2023)
Green Hydrogen in Namibia: This $10BN Desert Megaproject is a Game Changer
This project is worth the same as the country's entire GDP.Correction: The map at 3:41 shows the Walvis Bay. The Port of Luderitz is located furthe... (2023)
Rwanda to become the next Singapore?
Rwanda to become the next Singapore? (2023)
Ethiopia, Egypt and water from the Nile: Why This Circle Could Spark Africa’s Biggest War
Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan and water from the Nile: Why This Circle Could Spark Africa’s Biggest War (2023)
Amazing Invention - This Drone Will Change Everything - Zipline Drones
These folks engineering a much better way to deliver your basically anything. If you want to engineer your own creations with me every month, just ... (2023)
France secretly owns 14 countries, neocolonial Africa
France secretly owns 14 countries, neocolonial Africa (2023)
Why All Eyes Are On Zimbabwe’s Lithium Industry
Zimbabwe has been mining lithium for 60 years and the government estimates that its Chinese-owned Bikita mine, which is located 300 km south of the... (2023)
NAMIBIA TRAVEL DOCUMENTARY | 4x4 Safari Road Trip
NAMIBIA TRAVEL DOCUMENTARY | 4x4 Safari Road Trip (2023)
BOTSWANA TRAVEL DOCUMENTARY | 4x4 Safari Road Trip feat. Victoria Falls
BOTSWANA TRAVEL DOCUMENTARY | 4x4 Safari Road Trip feat. Victoria Falls (2023)
Why Does The Gambia Exist?
You know about The Gambia? That little country in West Africa that looks like it's barely more than a river? That awkwardly cuts off Senegal? Why i... (2023)
The Impossible Ethical Bargain Behind African Safaris
The Impossible Ethical Bargain Behind African Safaris (2023)
Colonization of Africa - Summary on a Map
Let's look at a map and see a summary of the different phases of exploration, conquests and colonization of African territories by European powers,... (2023)
Why Spain (Still) Has Cities in Africa
Why Spain (Still) Has Cities in Africa (2023)
How Libya Built Brand-New Rivers Across the Sahara
How Libya Built Brand-New Rivers Across the Sahara (2022)
How Rwanda is Becoming the Singapore of Africa
How Rwanda is Becoming the Singapore of Africa (2022)
Why the Southern Hemisphere is Poorer
Why the Southern Hemisphere is Poorer (2022)
Portugal’s Insane Plan to Double Its Territory
Portugal’s Insane Plan to Double Its Territory (2021)
Zimbabwe and Hyperinflation: Who Wants to Be a Trillionaire?
How would you like to pay $417.00 per sheet of toilet paper? Sound crazy? It’s not as crazy as you may think. Here’s a story of how this happened i... (2018)
How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change | Allan Savory | TED
"Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert," begins Allan Savory in this quietly powerful talk. And terrifyingly, it's hap... (2018)
Why all world maps are wrong
Vox: Published on Dec 2, 2016 Making accurate world maps is mathematically impossible. (2017)
How the World Map Looks Wildly Different Than You Think
Published on Aug 12, 2016 All of us have seen a world map at some point in our lives before, but it is very difficult to imagine how certain count... (2017)
506- Monumental Diplomacy - Namibia and North Korean art - 99% Invisible | Podcast on Spotify
In downtown Windhoek, Namibia -- at the intersection of Fidel Castro Street and Robert Mugabe Avenue -- there's an imposing gold building with an a... (2023)
Floods Leave Kenya’s Giraffes High And Dry—And Facing Extinction
Researchers don’t know enough about giraffes—and as populations dwindle, they’re running out of time. (2021)
The Afterlife Of American Clothes : Planet Money
The U.S. exports a billion pounds of used clothes every year. Much of that winds up in used clothing markets in sub-Saharan Africa. (2020)