WASHINGTON DC, United States of America /African Media Agency/- Fintech stakeholders from across Africa and the world will converge in Cape Town, South Africa, for the 8th Africa Fintech Summit, from November 2-4, 2022. The prestigious conference billed as Africa’s premier fintech event will be hosted at the Cape Town InternationalContinue Reading
Cape Three Points is the southernmost tip of Ghana. It has a white and red solar powered Lighthouse, built in 1925, the apex of which provides visitors a scenic beauty of the country’s only coastal rainforest reserve, many rolling hills and the Atlantic Ocean. The rainforest reserve has been extensivelyContinue Reading
Mindelo, Cape Verde – When the 35 teachers at the Escola de Alto Peixinho high school on the island of Santo Antão gathered there in early March, they were there for a bit of a role-reversal. They had come to learn, not to teach – and their teacher, Leila TeixeiraContinue Reading
Madhavi Venkatesan would disagree with the one-word whispered advice Dustin Hoffman’s character received at a party in the film “The Graduate.” “Plastics” is not the future. “Sometimes we make mistakes and this product is a mistake,” she said. “Recycling will not be a solution to this problem. Elimination will be. The productsContinue Reading
DAKAR, Senegal — As the marathon runners stretched and took their places on the starting line, one man stood out, dressed, as he was, in plastic from head to toe. A multicolored cape made entirely of plastic bags swept the sandy ground. A hat constructed out of plastic sunglasses wasContinue Reading
Pupils at Sozama preschool in KwaNobuhle township in the Eastern Cape are forced to use over-full classrooms, endure terrible smells from a nearby dumping site and often witness violence. The preschool’s classrooms are in a hall partitioned into two rooms. A nursery is used for children under three and theContinue Reading
Older fishermen such as Boaventura Martins, 60, have noticed the fish have not only become more scarce, but smaller. Some species have disappeared, he says. On a good day, Martins will catch 10kg (22lb) of fish, which is barely enough to cover his fuel costs. When he began fishing 40Continue Reading
By the time summer rolls around next year, Cape tourists will go to the grocery store near their vacation home to gather supplies for the beach, and might do a double-take when trying to find store-bought water. Ten towns on the Cape have voted to ban single-use plastic water bottles.Continue Reading
In an email to congressional staffers, a top officer on Joint Base Cape Cod expressed fears that a more intensive environmental review would defeat long-sought plans to build a machine gun range on the base. That email and about 100 others released Tuesday reveal escalating tensions between Gen. Christopher Faux,Continue Reading
HARWICH — Earlier this month, the Board of Selectmen balked at a property owners’ request to join them in what is known as a “friendly” Chapter 40B affordable housing application to the state, known as a Local Initiative Program. Under that program, developers and communities indicated they will work cooperatively, withContinue Reading
