‘Pocket optician’ trialled in Kenyan schools
04/02/2014A ‘pocket optician’ made from a modified smartphone is to be used by teachers in Kenya as part of trial to catch pupils’ eye problems. Access to eye care is.
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Corruption across EU ‘breathtaking’ – EU Commission
03/02/2014The extent of corruption in Europe is “breathtaking” and it costs the EU economy about 120bn euros (£99bn) annually, the European Commission says. EU Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem is.
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Nigerian PDP senators in mass defection to APC
31/01/2014The defections are the latest in a long list of problems confronting President Goodluck Jonathan At least 11 senators from Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s party have quit to join the.
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US Secretary of Commerce To Visit West Africa
30/01/2014US Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker will lead an Energy Business Development Mission to West Africa with stops in Ghana and Nigeria from May 18-23, 2014. The mission will promote.
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5 Amazing Places You May Never Have Heard Of
27/01/2014WISCONSIN’S EVER-CHANGING SEA CAVES Most of the world’s wonders are well trodden, but a few under-the-radar gems remain scattered across the globe. We chose our favourite among the more than.
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Tony Elumelu Invests In US Space Tech Startup
27/01/2014Heirs Holdings, a Tony Elumelu-led pan-African proprietary investment company with interests in Barack Obama’s $7 billion Power Africa initiative, has announced an undisclosed figure investment in San Francisco-based Planet Labs’.
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Young South African Music DJ set to be the first black African in space
24/01/2014No one in Mandla Maseko’s family has ever stepped outside South Africa, but the young township DJ is set to rocket into space next year. From the dusty district of.
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Five Lessons From Zimbabwe’s Richest Man, Strive Masiyiwa
20/01/2014Over two decades ago, Strive Masiyiwa took the Zimbabwean government to court in a grueling five-year legal battle. Masiyiwa had been planning to launch his own mobile telecoms company, but.
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The Billionaire Bond in Africa
20/01/2014Bill Gates and Mo Ibrahim have more in common than the magnanimous Buffett-inspired billionaire Giving Pledge, and now their paths may cross again. At a recent private gathering at the Council on.
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Nigeria’s President, Goodluck Jonathan Sacks Top Security And Defence Chiefs
16/01/2014Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has sacked his military high command, his spokesman Reuben Abati has said. No reason was given but the dismissals come amid growing concern about the military’s.
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