The Growth of Mobile Money Transfer in Africa

Business and Finance, Business and Investment, East Africa, Finance and Economics, Headline

In 2021 the glob­al mobile val­ue stood at 1 tril­lion dol­lars. The African con­ti­nent account­ed for about 70 per­cent of the sta­tis­tics. The adop­tion of mobile mon­ey in Africa con­tin­ues to rise with Glob­al Sys­tem for Mobile Communications(GSMA) fig­ures high­light­ing an increase from 27.5 bil­lion in 2020 to 36.7 bil­lion in 2021. Mobile Mon­ey Enables Growth…

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DACA Becomes Federal Regulation, but Future Still Uncertain 

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https://gdb.voanews.com/013b0000-0aff-0242–0501–08dab91924fd_w800_h450.jpgThe Biden admin­is­tra­tion has revised a pro­gram that pro­tect­ed from depor­ta­tion hun­dreds of thou­sands of undoc­u­ment­ed immi­grants brought to the Unit­ed States as chil­dren, in hopes of sat­is­fy­ing one of the argu­ments made by Repub­­li­­can-led states in fed­er­al courts that the pro­gram was not cre­at­ed prop­er­ly. Biden offi­cials issued the new ver­sion of Deferred Action…

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Has America Lost the “New Scramble for Africa?”

China in Africa, Headline, US-Africa Relations

Editor’s Note: In this piece, Keshawn Young argues that Amer­i­ca appears to be the “sore los­er” in the “scram­ble for Africa,” a bat­tle it is wag­ing against Rus­sia and Chi­na in Africa.  On Octo­ber 21, Unit­ed States Rep­re­sen­ta­tive for Minnesota’s 5th Con­gres­sion­al Dis­trict, Ilhan Omar, called out Amer­i­ca for its con­tin­u­ing strug­gle to estab­lish strong…

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Africa Post-Covid-19

Two Areas That Can Boost Africa’s Post-COVID Development

Covid-19, East Africa, Finance and Economics, Headline, West Africa

Editor’s Note: Ear­li­er, Oscar Katusya point­ed us to a strat­e­gy that may ben­e­fit the African con­ti­nent as it deals with the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic. Today, Oscar tells us trade and pol­i­tics are some of the key aspects of this strat­e­gy.  The Agen­da 2063 To under­stand the Africa Con­ti­nen­tal Free Trade Area, we first have to be…

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Dominion CEO says conservative networks knew they were airing misinformation

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This sto­ry, plus News­max will not pun­ish Eric Bolling for Lara Logan’s rant, a look at how Tik­Tok is increas­ing­ly becom­ing a news source and more, all in today’s media head­lines. Top Sto­ries Oct 24, 2022‘They knew the truth’: Domin­ion Vot­ing CEO says con­ser­v­a­tive net­works knew they were air­ing mis­in­for­ma­tion­Bai­ley Schulz / USA Today Oct […] The…

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Britain Faces Challenge to Rebuild Global Image Amid Political Chaos

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https://gdb.voanews.com/80470000-c0a8-0242–1211–08dab603376c_tv_w800_h450.jpgFor­mer chan­cel­lor Rishi Sunak won the back­ing of Con­ser­v­a­tive Par­ty law­mak­ers Mon­day to become Britain’s new prime min­is­ter, fol­low­ing the res­ig­na­tion last week of Liz Truss, who spent under two months in office. He is expect­ed to vis­it King Charles III on Tues­day to accept the invi­ta­tion to form a gov­ern­ment. Eco­nom­ic chal­lenges  Sunak will…

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