Kenya private sector business picks up as country puts behind impact of tax protests on economy
In June, President William Ruto discarded the government’s finance bill for the year, which contained tax hikes estimated to be 346 billion shillings ($2.69 billion), following deadly street protests.
South Africa: Fake railway engineer handed 15 years in prison, ordered to refund $323,000 salary
Investigators have said there was rampant corruption and mismanagement at some of South Africa’s biggest state-owned businesses between 2009 and 2018. A report last week by a special unit that is investigating high-level corruption said that more than $7 billion may have been lost to graft at some of those state-owned companies, including PRASA.
Robot waiters awe customers in Nairobi as East Africa nation braces for workface disruptions
The technology is predicted to disrupt the future workforce globally, and especially in Africa, where there is a youthful population with a median age of 19 years. But the cafe’s manager says the robots aren’t a replacement for human waiters as they can’t offer all services.
El Must in trouble with Brazilian Supreme Court over non-representation in the Latin American nation
In his decision on Friday, Judge Alexandre de Moraes’ cited Musk’s statements as evidence that X’s conduct “clearly intends to continue to encourage posts with extremism, hate speech and anti-democratic discourse, and to try to withdraw them from jurisdictional control.”
Boston University study: China’s loans to Africa rise by $4.6 billion for the first time seven years
The new data comes as Beijing prepares to host African leaders next week for the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, which takes place every three years. There were 13 loan deals last year involving eight African countries and two African multilateral lenders, the study found.
Probe into $7 billion corruption in state corporations paint a gloomy picture of South Africa’s economy
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa appears on behalf of the ruling African National Congress party at the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into state corruption in Johannesburg, South Africa, on April 29, 2021. Credit: AP
France blackout information of Telegram boss’ detention as company the CEO has nothing to hide
Pavel Durov, who has dual French and United Arab Emirates citizenship, was arrested as part of a preliminary police investigation into allegedly allowing a wide range of crimes due to a lack of moderators on Telegram and a lack of cooperation with police, a French police source said.
Dealing with stress, Nigerian way: Swinging a sledgehammer in ‘rage room’ is the latest fad in Lagos
Times are tough in Nigeria, a country of about 250 million people where growing frustration among youths led to recent mass protests in which several people were killed by security forces. The inflation rate has reached a 28-year-high of 33.4 per cent, while the naira currency has fallen to record lows against the dollar.
Kenya’s largest mobile telephone service provider Safaricom raises concerns about satellite internet licences to rivals
Starlink operates in Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Mozambique, Malawi, Madagascar, Benin, South Sudan, Eswatini and Sierra Leone. Earlier this year, Cameroon ordered the seizure of Starlink equipment at ports as the provider was not licensed.
Former grocery reveals how meat US industry colludes to fix prices and people ‘need to go to jail…’
A former grocery executive told a progressive media outlet in a video released on Augus 20 that “people fucking need to go to jail” over a long-running scheme in which dominant US meat industry players have used information provided by a little-known data analytics company to increase prices and pad...
