Moscow’s Man on the Spot in Africa by keepamovin

A Powerful Player in the Dirty Business of Empire One of modern history’s major empires is falling apart right now, right before our eyes. Yet precious few in the media have reported on this extraordinary event, much less offered any analysis of its implications for the fast-changing shape of global power. Over the past 60

ByHackTechOctober 19, 20230Comments

News

Africa fell in love with crypto. Now, it’s complicated by marban

Chiamaka, a former product manager at a Nigerian cryptocurrency startup, has sworn off digital currencies. The 22-year-old has weathered a layoff and lost savings worth 4,603,500 naira ($9,900) after the collapse of FTX in November 2022. She now works for a corporate finance company in Lagos, earning a salary that is 45% lower than her

ByHackTechApril 26, 20230Comments

News

Africa fell in love with crypto. Now, it’s complicated by impish9208

Chiamaka, a former product manager at a Nigerian cryptocurrency startup, has sworn off digital currencies. The 22-year-old has weathered a layoff and lost savings worth 4,603,500 naira ($9,900) after the collapse of FTX in November 2022. She now works for a corporate finance company in Lagos, earning a salary that is 45% lower than her

ByHackTechApril 25, 20230Comments

News

South Africa plans to legalize sex work in a bid to tackle crime and HIV by DoreenMichele

Sex workers and supporters shout and sing slogans during a march in solidarity with sex workers set on decriminalizing the trade, in Johannesburg, South Africa, May 27, 2021. GUILLEM SARTORIO/AFP/Getty Johannesburg — South Africa on Friday said it would decriminalize sex work, hoping to tackle high levels of crime against women in a country with one

ByHackTechJanuary 11, 20230Comments

News

Africa may have reached the pandemic’s holy grail by pseudolus

NPR’s sites use cookies, similar tracking and storage technologies, and information about the device you use to access our sites (together, “cookies”) to enhance your viewing, listening and user experience, personalize content, personalize messages

ByHackTechJanuary 28, 20220Comments

News

In Southern Africa, Success Against HIV Offers Hope for Beating Back Covid-19 by sohkamyung

Global HealthA former Africa correspondent, who covered the height of the AIDS epidemic there 15 years ago, finds lessons in the remarkable progress against that virus for our current fight.A near-empty ward of the Chongwe District Hospital outside Lusaka, Zambia. Fifteen years ago, a hospital like this would have been overflowing with H.I.V. patients lying…

ByHackTechJanuary 12, 20220Comments

Sign Up to Our Newsletter