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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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Glencore faces a DoJ probe stretching from Africa to the Americas || The Economist

IT EMERGED on July 2nd that Hollywood may make “The King of Oil”, a film about Marc Rich, an American-Swiss commodities trader who became a fabulou... (2018)


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China has a vastly ambitious plan to connect the world || The Economist

Gateway to the globe GROWING up in a military dictatorship, Than Swe, a young member of Myanmar’s business elite, saw the Western world as a pr... (2018)


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What if China corners the cobalt market?

“Once again it is threatening to cause trouble, this time in the growing market for batteries for electric vehicles (EVs), each of which uses about... (2018)


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How Robert Mugabe ruined Zimbabwe - The Economist explains

IN 2016 it became a common sight in the capital of Zimbabwe to see fearful citizens queuing outside banks, waiting hopefully for cash. It was the m... (2018)


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Why Cape Town’s water could run out in April - The Economist explains

THE people of Cape Town have spent recent years praying for rain. It has not come often enough. Lawns have faded to brown and swimming pools have g... (2018)


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The end of progress against extreme poverty?

The world has made huge progress in reducing extreme poverty; could this be coming to an end? In the last three decades, the world has made prog... (2026)


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Many children who could benefit from oral rehydration therapy for diarrhea still don’t receive it

In 2021, around 1.25 million people died from diarrheal diseases. Around a third of these deaths were children. Two main factors explain why so ... (2026)


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Bitcoin surges in Zimbabwe after military seize power

2017: "Bitcoin climbed as much as 10% on Zimbabwe’s Golix exchange on Wednesday after the country’s armed forces seized power. The price of th... (2017)


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Even If It Fails: Why Dash Could Have a Lasting Impact on Crypto Adoption - CoinDesk

Few cryptocurrency projects are evangelizing in emerging markets as aggressively as dash, giving $2.3 million to communities in the developing world. (2018)


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Visualizing Africa's Battery Storage Pipeline

With a proposed capacity of 11 GWh , South Africa accounts for a large share of Africa’s battery energy storage pipeline. This is more than... (2025)


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Two billion people don’t have safe drinking water: what does this really mean for them?

For billions, it can mean hours spent collecting water. For almost a million, it means dying from disease. (2025)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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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)


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France secretly owns 14 countries, neocolonial Africa

France secretly owns 14 countries, neocolonial Africa (2023)


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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)


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The Impossible Ethical Bargain Behind African Safaris

The Impossible Ethical Bargain Behind African Safaris (2023)


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How Libya Built Brand-New Rivers Across the Sahara

How Libya Built Brand-New Rivers Across the Sahara (2022)


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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)


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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)


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Why all world maps are wrong

Vox: Published on Dec 2, 2016 Making accurate world maps is mathematically impossible. (2017)


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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)