21 Dec General news, West Africa general news The New Face of Star Wars: John Boyega (CNET.com) December 21, 2015 By Dr. Dennie Beach John Boyega hadn’t been born when “Star Wars,” with its cast of relative unknowns, electrified pop culture. The trilogy forever transfo... Continue reading
18 Dec Technology News, West Africa technology news 4 Key Things to consider before venturing into E-commerce in Nigeria (IT News Africa) December 18, 2015 By Dr. Dennie Beach For many business owners in Nigeria, E-commerce is still an enigma. However, with over 60% of people in the country now using the inter... Continue reading
18 Dec East Africa economic news, Economic news, North Africa economic news, Southern Africa economic news, West Africa economic news Africa outperforms global economy despite downward revisions (This is Africa) December 18, 2015 By Dr. Dennie Beach Africa continues to outperform other world regions despite falling commodity prices and rising conflict in 2015, according to revised G... Continue reading
17 Dec General news, North Africa news, Politics, Social Issues, Southern Africa, Southern Africa general news, Southern Africa news, West Africa general news, West Africa news, West Africa Social Issues (Deutsche Welle) Will Africa have its own ‘Arab Spring?’ December 17, 2015 By Madina Toure The Arab Spring happened five years ago but this is not an anniversary to celebrate as Tunisia remains the one success story. But that ... Continue reading
16 Dec Economic news, General news, Politics, Social Issues, U.S News, West Africa economic news, West Africa general news, West Africa news (Face2Face Africa) Obama Appoints Adewale Adeyemo as Deputy National Security Adviser December 17, 2015 By Madina Toure 16 December 2015 | By Face2Face Africa Staff U.S. President Barack Obama has named Adewale “Wally” Adeyemo his deputy national secur... Continue reading
16 Dec Economic news, West Africa economic news, West Africa Social Issues Cote d’Ivoire: $49 bn, 5-year investment plan to tackle poverty (The africa report.com) December 16, 2015 By Dr. Dennie Beach ote d'Ivoire is aiming to invest more than 29 trillion CFA francs ($48.53 billion) in the next five years as part of efforts to foster ... Continue reading
16 Dec Technology News (NYT) ENTREPRENEURSHIP : A Handwritten Card, Signed and Sealed by the Latest Technology December 16, 2015 By Dr. Dennie Beach Communication today is faster and more ephemeral than ever. We fire off emails, skip the punctuation in our texts, and watch our photos... Continue reading
16 Dec East Africa technology news, North Africa technology news, Southern Africa technology news, Technology News, West Africa technology news SweepSouth wants more African startups in US accelerators (IT News Africa) December 16, 2015 By Dr. Dennie Beach Applications are open for the next batch of 500 Startups companies, and home cleaning platform SweepSouth, which has just returned from... Continue reading
16 Dec Technology News (NYT) Physicists in Europe Find Tantalizing Hints of a Mysterious New Particle December 16, 2015 By Dr. Dennie Beach Does the Higgs boson have a cousin? Two teams of physicists working independently at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European... Continue reading
16 Dec Health news, North Africa health news (NYT) Public Health Experiment Brings Hepatitis Cures to Egypt’s Poor December 16, 2015 By Dr. Dennie Beach https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-2/js/ext.js SHABAS EL SHOHODA, Egypt — Abdel Gawad Ellabbad knows exactly how he was... Continue reading