Ethiopia has shut the door for foreign mobile phone companies like Safaricom, which had hoped to introduce its popular M-Pesa mobile money transfer platform in the market of 100 million people, saying only local companies would be allowed to do offer such services. Safaricom had launched talks with the Ethiopian…
An earthquake has rocked Croatia’s capital Zagreb, damaging buildings and leaving cars crushed by falling chunks of masonry. A teenager is in a critical condition after a roof collapsed, local media say. The spire of the city’s cathedral also snapped off. After Sunday’s tremor, Zagreb’s mayor urged people to return…
MAR 15 – Kenya confirmed two more cases of coronavirus, bringing to the three the number of cases so far confirmed. “We have confirmed two more cases of coronavirus after tests conducted on people who were quarantined,” President Uhuru Kenyatta said Sunday, flanked by top government officials, including Health Cabinet…
Ethiopia’s reformist Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced last year that he intended to change how the country does business, by converting government agencies to freely accept private investors. Public enterprises have been around for nearly three decades, indicating the kind of challenge he was taking on. Previously, only small entities…
Over 650 British soldiers were allegedly confined to their barracks in Kenya after several troops were feared to have contracted HIV from local prostitutes. The report was revealed by The Mail on Sunday which claimed that up to 100 British army personnel were involved with prostitutes who set up makeshift…