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Uber has been looking to expand into African markets with low levels of car ownership and limited mass transport and this has resulted in the launch of the transportation service in Ivory Coast’s capital Abidjan. This makes Abidjan just the 3rd territory Uber has a presence in within West Africa with Nigeria and Ghana being […]. .

Researchers have developed a once-a-month oral contraceptive pill that they say would offer women more choice and control over their fertility. Once swallowed, the pill remains in the stomach for weeks, slowly releasing hormones to prevent a pregnancy. It is specially designed to resist immediate attack by stomach acid. A US team, funded by The Bill […]. .

Anthony Joshua became a two-time world heavyweight champion with a unanimous points victory over Andy Ruiz Jr in a tense rematch in Saudi Arabia. Six months on from the night Ruiz stunned boxing, Joshua risked seeing his career left in tatters with a second defeat, but served up 36 minutes of movement and well-timed punching […]. .

Manchester City have pledged to issue a lifetime ban to “anyone found guilty of racist abuse” after Manchester United players said they were targeted during Saturday’s derby at Etihad Stadium. City said they were “aware of a video circulating on social media” which seems to show a supporter making monkey gestures towards United players. The […]. .

Lionel Messi celebrated winning his sixth Ballon d’Or with a hat-trick as Barcelona beat Mallorca to move top of La Liga. He scored two excellent finishes from outside the box before smashing in a third off the underside of the crossbar. Antoine Griezmann had opened the scoring for Barca, with Luis Suarez netting an outrageous […]. .

FOOD, shelter and clothing are the elementary human needs. It is a common expectation of every worker that their employment income should; at the very least, enable them to own a personal home, have access to basic health care, provide a basic family meal and aid them to afford decent clothing. Any government which fails […]. .

The founder of Alibaba, Jack Ma has never shied away from his fascination with Africa as the next “big thing” for Africa. The former CEO has a competition that funds African Entrepreneurs and he recently wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times. In the piece, he mentions a number of things he has […]. .

Techzim & Pindula Founder Limbikani Makani sat down with Kay Media Africa for their most recent episode of The Hub and spoke about a number of issues including the "Techzim bias", Techzim’s position on gossip and a number of interesting questions that our readers may have had as well: Quick NetOne, Telecel, Africom, And Econet [...]. .

[Image Source: Mureza Twitter] A few months ago we shared an interview by Daniel Itai with the Mureza team regarding their company along with their plans for the PRIM8 which is the model they are currently producing. Mureza’s CEO Tatenda Mungofa got interviewed by ZBC yesterday and shared information regarding the distribution of the PRIM8 […]. .

Researchers from Picodi took a look at the pricing of 233 of the biggest fibre internet providers in 62 countries taking into consideration the following factors: How expensive is the internet? Where is surfing the net the cheapest? In which countries is super-fast internet easy accessible? The higher the speed the more you’ll pay – […]. .

Chelsea say Fifa treated them more harshly than Manchester City despite their transfer ban being cut on appeal. The Blues’ two-window ban was halved by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, freeing them to buy players next month. City did not get a transfer ban after they were also found to have broken rules on signing young players. […]. .

Formula 1 has relaxed restrictions on engine usage for 2020 meaning drivers could suffer fewer grid penalties. Drivers will next year be able to use three MGU-Ks – a part of the hybrid system – one more than in 2019. The move brings the MGU-K into line with the other parts of the power-unit in […]. .

The women’s marathon and all race walks at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics have been rescheduled following an earlier decision to relocate them to Sapporo. Organisers have changed the dates to assist athletes who must now travel 500 miles north of Tokyo to compete. The women’s marathon has moved from 2 August to 8 August. The men’s […]. .

Tiger Woods moved into contention for a sixth Hero World Challenge title as he trails US Open champion Gary Woodland by two shots after the third round. Tournament host Woods shot a five-under 67 to lie joint third with American Justin Thomas and Jon Rahm of Spain. Woodland shot 68 to sit one ahead of […]. .

Switzerland’s 20-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer will become the first living person to be celebrated on a coin in the country. The Federal Mint, Swissmint, will release a 20 Swiss francs silver commemorative coin in January. It plans to add a Federer SFr50 gold coin in May. “Thank you Switzerland and Swissmint for this […]. .

NOVEMBER, the sacred month of the goat in Shona tradition, is over. The first rains have fallen, green shoots are appearing, and during November, while the ancestral spirits were resting, no cultural ceremonies will have taken place. During this period of regeneration, traditionalists will have quietly taken stock of their situation and prepared for the […]. .

At Techzim we are particularly stoked about the opportunity of the internet and when we hear that an organisation is providing access to millions of people at no cost we are particularly excited about that. That’s exactly what Upstream claims to have done – providing free mobile internet to 215 million consumers in emerging markets […]. .

On this episode of the Techzim podcast, we have a discussion on whether the statement by NetOne CEO Lazarus Muchenje that OneMoney will overtake EcoCash in 2 years is even possible. Some of the questions on our minds were: Has OneMoney been growing? What are the use cases for OneMoney? How is NetOne convincing people […]. .

Standard Chartered has been sending educational emails to their clientele for a while now and in one of the recently shared emails, they addressed the issue of card cloning – a raging issue which has seen a significant amount of money being lost ever since Zimbabwe adopted cashless transactions.

African Development Bank recently launched the Coding for Employment platform in partnership with Microsoft. The online tool will be used to provide digital skills to African youths all over the continent. The platform was launched at the 2019 African Economic Conference in Egypt and one of the major aims is to scale it up across […]. .

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