United States International University-Africa (USIU-Africa) Council on Tuesday appointed Prof Freida Brown as the Interim Vice Chancellor effective August 16, 2021. She will be replacing the outgoing Vice-Chancellor Prof Paul Zeleza, a position he assumed on January 1, 2016. He was also a Professor of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the institution. He holds a PhD in economic history from Dalhousie University, Canada, which he completed at age 26, and a Master of Arts from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies and the London School of Economics. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree (with…
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Khusoko provides market insights into Africa's business investment as well as global trends that impact East African businesses.
How can new digital ways of working in the healthcare sector improve patient outcomes to increase global health equity in the COVID-19 era and beyond? These were the questions tackled by a panel of globally recognised health-tech experts in a recent webinar for the African healthcare community. Hosted by BroadReach Group CEO Chris LeGrand, an internationally recognised leader in public health management, the webinar was joined by panellists Dr John Sargent, the World Economic Forum’s 2015 Social Entrepreneur of the Year, health technology innovator and co-founder of BroadReach, Dr Andrew Kambugu, Executive Director at the Infectious Diseases Institute at Makerere…
African based Finnish freelance journalist Liselott Lindstrom, mainly reporting for Finnish Broadcasting Company, had a chance to witness first-hand how the war and humanitarian crisis in the Ethiopian northern regional state of Tigray, a week before Ethiopian Defense Forces moved out of the regional state. On her trip to Ethiopia’s Tigray regional state, she managed to meet Getachew Reda, the Advisor to the President of Tigray state. Reda is a fire-spitting critic of Ethiopian Prime Minister Dr Abiy Ahmed. Reda is also serving as the spokesperson for Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which is rebranding itself as Tigray Defense Force…
The best football leagues in the world are back this August, as the world of champions, SuperSport brings live action of the new season in all its HD glory and on SD to DStv and GOtv football fans across the continent. As part of our strategy to put customers at the heart of everything we do, MultiChoice will continue to bring the most action-packed football from the best players in the world, when the top leagues in the world kick off on August 7. SuperSport will be showing all 380 Premier League matches on the dedicated channel SuperSport Premier League (223), 380 games from La Liga in…
Oxford University Press has added over 60,000 words and 89,000 meanings with words into its 10th edition of the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. It has also added an additional 1000 new headwords into the 4th edition of Kamusi ya Kiswahili Sanifu which contains 816 pages. The new words are meant to sensitize learners on the current usage of words and meanings to improve their writing and reading skills. The latest editions facilitate better teacher to student interaction with well-illustrated explanations using pictures, diagrams and cross-referencing. The 10th edition OALD incorporates new words such as mandazi, boda-boda, safari as well as…
Ride-hailing platform, Bolt, has launched an on-demand cash withdrawal option to further improve customer experience. This would allow its drivers to provide early access to cash earned on the platform from cashless payment methods and other earnings whenever they need it. “We strongly believe the feature will offer our drivers convenient, faster and effortless accessibility to their earnings in real-time. In turn, increasing their productivity, workflow, and overall financial well-being,” Kenneth Micah, Bolt Regional Manager, East Africa said in an emailed statement. The cashout product processes payments directly to drivers’ bank accounts; requests during business hours will be processed in…