Many fear ‘bond notes’ will cause hyperinflation as protests grow against autocratic 92-year-old’s rule By Jason Burke A Zimbabwean man shows off new bond notes in Harare. Photograph: Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters Zimbabwe has launched a controversial new currency in a last ditch bid to inject desperately needed cash into its failing economy. Many ordinary people fear...
October 21, 2026
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Kenya’s phone banking gets global praise
By Protus Onyango The World Bank has praised Kenya for using mobile banking to fight hunger and poverty. Speaking in Marrakech, Morocco, during the on-going UN climate change conference, John Roome, World Bank’s Senior Director of Climate Change said Kenya’s success in mobile banking can be emulated worldwide. “Kenya is leading the world in this...
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When England Admired Islam
Without Muslims there would be no sugar or Shakespeare in England. Jerry Brotton’s “The Sultan and the Queen” traces Islam’s profound influence over English culture during the half-millennium between the Crusades and the rise of the British Empire in the Middle East. By ALAN MIKHAIL Portraits from 1622 by van Dyck of the adventurer-diplomat Sir...
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Gambia goalkeeper who died in Mediterranean wanted to play in Europe
Fatim Jawara, 19, drowned while trying to reach Lampedusa in Italy on one of two ships hit by a sudden storm By Jason Burke Fatim Jawara made her debut for the national team a year ago Photograph: internet The teenage goalkeeper of the Gambia’s national women’s football team who drowned in the Mediterranean while trying...
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Does President Hassan Sh. Mohamud Deserve Re-election?
By Liban Ahmad Four years ago, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud took office with a promise to change Somalia for better. His political program was based on Six Pillars to be implemented by the Somali Federal Government. SFG was formed in 2012 to empower national leaders of a new, permanent government to have a better leverage than transitional governments had to engage stakeholders...
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Once a Bucknell Professor, Now the Commander of an Ethiopian Rebel Army
By JOSHUA HAMMER Berhanu Nega was once one of Bucknell University’s most popular professors. An Ethiopian exile with a Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research in Manhattan, he taught one of the economics department’s most sought-after electives, African Economic Development. When he wasn’t leading seminars or puttering around his comfortable home in a wooded neighborhood...
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Bill Gates to expand interests in Ethiopia
ANA The Foundation is currently engaged in implementing 150 development projects which are worth over $500 million.(REUTERS) The Co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, has expressed an interest to invest in the electronic payment and store value system in Ethiopia after seeing the increasing number of users in Uganda, Kenya and...
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Police ‘too slow’ to recognise exploitation of girls in Bristol
Serious case review, launched after 13 men jailed last year, finds police and other agencies missed opportunities to intervene Mustapha Farah and Omar Jumale, two of the Somali men who were convicted in Bristol of running an inner-city sex ring. Photograph: Avon and Somerset Police/PA By Steven Morris Police, health workers and a string of...
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Years after Somali pirates abducted 3 Vietnamese fishermen, families still looking for help
NGHE AN Vietnamese fishermen (1, 2 and 6) among the crew abducted by Somali pirates in Taiwan in 2012, according to a photo provided by one of the fishers’ families Three Vietnamese working on a fishing boat were abducted four years ago by Somali pirates and their unfortunate families are still waiting for the government...
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Sub-Saharan Africa presents varied view of consumer confidence levels
By Nielsen The latest Nielsen Consumer Confidence Index (Q3) shows a varied view for sub-Saharan Africa as despite it having increased by five points in Ghana (99) in the third quarter, it decreased five points in Nigeria (127), the first decline since inception of the CCI in quarter 3 of 2014. Confidence also declined five...