Art & Culture

Europe joins US in the battle for under-served African customers in an already competitive internet market - with France eyeing up to 26 African markets, majority being francophone countries.

According to the UN refugee agency, more than 7 million people are internally displaced, nearly 2 million have fled to neighbouring countries and 25 million (half of the population) are in dire need of humanitarian assistance. Estimates suggest that over 20,000 people have been killed since the war began in April 2023.

The mpox outbreak in Africa is yet another example of how infectious diseases perceived to be “someone else’s problem”, and affecting mainly poor, developing countries, may suddenly pose unexpected global threats.

"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen" - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin