The death of a 26-year-old Congolese refugee, Patrick Lyoya triggered calls for police reform in 2022. Shouting “there is no justice in this land” and “Justice for Patrick”, at least thirty protestors demonstrated on a Saturday in Grand Rapids, eastern United States. Police brutality culminating in the death of a 26-year-old Congolese-American man sparked the demonstrations against racism and police reform. Read Also: Kenya Airways Selected to Spearhead IATA’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel Registry Patrick Lyoya, a black man, was fatally shot by a police officer during a traffic stop in the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan on April 4. Before…
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Regxta, a Nigerian fintech startup, has emerged as the winner of the fourth Pitch2Win edition of the Pitch2Win startup contest to receive $10,000 worth of equity-free funding with an additional opportunity to participate in IVS2024 Kyoto – the largest startup event in Japan. Techcircle joined hands with TechFreakout, SGverse, and SGgrow to organize Pitch2Win, the latest session being the fourth one on June 12 during which 15 startups made their pitches to the jury and investors. Read Also: The Bank of Uganda Takes Swift Action Against Mercantile Credit Bank Ltd China to Attend the 2024 FISU World University Mind Sports…
Telecom Namibia and Huawei Technologies Namibia formally sealed their five-year mutually beneficial strategic partnership on Tuesday. The purpose is to transform the mobile broadband network for Telecom Namibia as well as connectivity coverage across Namibia. It has become clear that telecom Namibia, the larger shareholder in TN mobile, has plans to invest in the modernization of the network. New mobile base stations will be established, and the existing ones will be improved. Huawei is also expected to provide Telecom Namibia conventional narrowband mobile radio access equipment to enhance Telecom Namibia’s capacity and coverage. The use of 4G, 4.5G, and 5G…
RwandAir Cargo is planning to enter Dubai and Djibouti with the help of its B738SF dedicated freighter service. It is a part of the airline’s mission to link Africa and the world, as the company stated in the June 10 press release. New destinations will expand RwandAir’s cargo capacity to seven and will offer their constant growth of freighter services throughout Africa and the Middle East. Yvonne Makolo, CEO of RwandAir: “The added destinations will support efficient and reliable connections for business and provide significant opportunities for enhanced trade between Rwanda, the UAE, Djibouti, and the rest of the continent.”…
Comrade Joseph Evah, an activist and coordinator of the Ijaw Monitoring Group has used this opportunity to urge the President Bola Tinubu to involve more contractors in the Lagos-Calabar superhighway project to decentralize it. Evah further suggested that the Calabar section of the project should be awarded to other contracting companies to increase the rate of work done. The Lagos-Calabar coastal highway project initially planned as 700 km long-running through 9 states was awarded to Hitech Construction Company Limited on an EPC+F basis where Hitech incurred most of the risk component while the federal government has to provide funding on the…
Kenya Airways has been awarded the contract to spearhead the IATA’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Registry, a major boost to Nairobi-based airline. This comes after Kenya Airways had experimented with the use of SAF in October where it used the product for a flight from Kenya to the Netherlands. This flight was the initial one in Africa utilizing SAF, which provided valuable insights required for establishing polices, additional regulations, and standard practices for the usage of the green fuel. Mr Allan Kilavuka, the managing director of Kenya Airways Group revealed that through its instrumental roles in the formation of the…
Airtel Africa’s wholesale subsidiary Airtel Telesonic has stated the successful commencement of operations of the 2Africa submarine system to boost connectivity in the continent. The first phase connects Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa, opening up the next phase of improved and efficient broadband internet. The 2Africa cable project, one of the biggest subsea cable systems around the world, plans to link Africa, Europe, and Asia to enhance digital transition in Africa. Airtel Telesonic, had early in 2012 enlisted the services of Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) to accomplish this feat. ASN, covering a wide range of the optical submarine networks, offered…
Angola’s Minister of Energy and Water, João Baptista Borges, announced on Thursday in Luanda Province that the private entrepreneurs will drive the reform of the Angolan electricity sector. This comes with the construction of the network infrastructure, the expansion of the transmission system lines, and interconnection with neighbouring countries. Speaking at the presentation of the recommendations of the 4th Dialogue between the United States of America (USA) and Angola on Energy Security, he opined that the reforms will be funded by the Americans, with the view of bringing forth equally cheaper and more populist energy for the populace. The official…
Kiandu Coffee Factory in Nyeri has also adopted power conservation methods such as installing solar panels to reduce energy bills. This equipment, which costs Sh30 million, is a solar eco pulping machine that uses less power and also minimal water during the processing of the coffee cherry, and it will benefit over 5,000 farmers. The new system provided by Coffee Marketing Services Self Africa has cut this cost to Sh1,500 for an hour as an improvement over the previous Sh500, 000 monthly electricity bill to Kenya Power. “This machine will only use two litres of water to pulp coffee one…
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), in partnership with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has recently introduced develoPPP Ventures funding for South African startups. The develoPPP Ventures programme is designed for the growth phase of the innovative SGBs, which should have a definite and measurable social or environmental impact, along with good potential for generating reasonable returns. The financing takes place at the latest within the context of regular calls, where startups can obtain grants of up to €100,000 (US$ 110,000) for a growth investment for an iteration with development relevance for the business…