3. Blog list – classic

Mark Zuckerberg made a sudden appearance in Nairobi last week in the dead of night on a scouting mission. Facebook’s billionaire founder was after the crown jewel in East and Central Africa’s most profitable company, Safaricom: M-Pesa. Dressed characteristically nonchalantly in a grey T-shirt and blue jeans, Mr Zuckerberg laid out his intentions plainly. “I…

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has released its latest report on Global Education Monitoring. The new Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report by UNESCO, indicates the potential for education to propel progress towards all global goals outlined in the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDGs). It also shows that education needs a…

Sri Lanka on Tuesday became the third and most populous country in Asia to be declared malaria-free by the World Health Organization. Only the Maldives and Singapore have also been declared free of the disease in the region but both countries have less than a quarter of Sri Lanka’s 21 million population. The island nation’s…

  6 September 2016. Poverty rates have declined in African countries, a new report released by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA): Dubbed ‘African Agriculture Status Report (AASR): Progress towards an Agriculture Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa’, the report says that Ghana, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Burkina Faso have experienced a high decline in poverty rates. The…