Latest Africa Stories
Panel to Discuss Frugal Innovation and our Africa Expansion Strategy AUSTIN, Texas, March 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Blacks in Technology (BiT), in conjunction with South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival, is proud to present ThoughtWorks CTO Rebecca Parsons along with ThoughtWorkers Damilola Olutayo and Montra Ellis, and Toby Shapshak as Featured Panelists on Saturday, March 9th from 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130306/SF71308LOGO) The...
Africa remains a target for land-grab developments worth billions; regional dialogue in Yaoundé focuses on the need for speed While African governments are moving gradually towards protecting the land rights of rural people and indigenous communities, they are moving quickly to give away community forests and other lands for development. These conflicting choices are the focus of two new reports and a regional dialogue on forests, governance, and climate change. "Governments across...
JOHANNESBURG, March 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- With the African Continent's economy beginning to thrive Misys brings together the financial community to explore how new technology innovations can assist financial institutions to meet customer demands Misys [http://www.misys.com ], the global leader in financial services software solutions, welcomed leaders from across Africa's financial services sector to take part in the company's first...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A long-standing belief that ancient Egyptian governors and rulers lived the high life is being called into question. A recent excavation of the Qubbet el-Hawa necropolis, in the region of Aswan, has offered up evidence that not even the wealthy rulers of the time could avoid hunger, malnutrition, disease and high infant mortality rate. Researchers from the University of Jaen, along with anthropologists from the University of...
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Most people want to see wild animals run free and unrestricted in their natural habitat. However, that scenario may come to pass for African lions, which could benefit greatly from living securely within the confines of a protective fence. According to a new study in Ecology Letters, about half of Africa's wild lion population could decline to near extinction levels over the next 20 to 40 years without critical conservation...
AMSTERDAM, March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- KEY RESULTS AND DEVELOPMENTS IN 2012(*) Q4 Revenues of USD 6.0 billion; organic(1) )growth of 3% YoY EBITDA of USD 2.4 billion, up 13% YoY organically EBITDA margin increased 3.3 p.p. YoY to 41.1% Total mobile subscriber base grew 5% YoY to 214 million Net income increased to USD 801 million Net Cash from Operating Activities up 24% YoY to USD 2.3 billion FY Revenues of USD 23.1 billion; organic growth of 4% YoY EBITDA of...
mFino wins the prestigious Kalahari Award for the Best Mobile Money Platform in Lagos, Nigeria at the 3rd Mobile Money Expo. With several successful deployments, CEO Sridhar Obilisetty said that mFino has become the mobile money platform of choice for banks and telcos in Africa. (Source: mFino Ltd.) Lagos, Nigeria (PRWEB) March 05, 2013 mFino wins the prestigious Kalahari Award for the Best Mobile Money Platform in Lagos, Nigeria at the 3rd Mobile Money Expo on February 7, 2013. mFino has...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online The prime minister of Thailand has pledged to take steps to change the country’s currently legal domestic ivory trade in order to help protect endangered elephants, various media outlets reported Sunday. Speaking during the opening day of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), Yingluck Shinawatra announced that she would be amending Thai law with the intention of putting an end to a market which...
The DDC is the first and only data center facility in East Africa to provide direct fiber access to five undersea cable systems connecting Europe, the Middle East, and Asia markets with Africa. MTN selects DDC for collocation and undersea fiber cable head cross connect services in support of network expansion in Africa. United Arab Emirates, Dubai (PRWEB) March 04, 2013 The Djibouti Data Center (DDC) has announced today at the Capacity Middle East Conference the launch of its commercial...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online New statistics show that the elephant population in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has declined by 37 percent in the last five years. According to wildlife surveys by the Wildlife Conservation Society and DRC officials, only 1,700 elephants now remain in the DRC, which holds the largest remaining forest elephant population. Scientists at WCS warn that if people continue to poach forest elephants in DRC, then the species...
Latest Africa Reference Libraries
As the world’s second-largest and second most populous continent, Africa is about 11.7 sq. miles including adjacent islands. It covers 6 percent of the Earth’s total surface area and 20.4 percent of the total land area. With 1 billion people, it accounts for about 15 percent of the world’s human population. It is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, both the Suez Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai Peninsula to the northeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and the Indian...
The Zanzibar leopard (Panthera pardus adersi) is a subspecies of the leopard that may be extinct. It is native to Tanzania, with a range that includes Unguja Island in the Zanzibar archipelago. This subspecies is thought to have occurred when African leopards were isolated on the island after the last Ice Age, creating a smaller form with varying fur patterns. Because the Zanzibar leopard is so rare, or possibly extinct, there is not much information regarding its habits and lifestyle. Its...
The Transvaal lion or the Southeast African lion (Panthera leo krugeri) is subspecies of the lion. It can be found in southern Africa, with a range that includes the Kalahari Region and Kruger National Park. This species was named after the Transvaal region of southern Africa, where it is thought that the closely related and extinct Cape lion represented the southern population of the species. Males can reach an average body length between 8.5 and 10.4 feet, with a weight of up to 551...
The striped polecat (Ictonyx striatus), also known as the zoril, zorilla, zorille, or the African polecat, is a member of the weasel family. It can be found in sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa, and the Congo Basin. It prefers a habitat within open areas and savannahs. This species resembles a skunk, and even releases a foul odor when threatened by predators. It is black in color with four white stripes running down its body. It can reach an average body length of 24 inches, with a tail length...
The panther genet (Genetta maculate), also known as the rusty-spotted genet, is a mammal related to the linsang and the civet. It can be found in many areas of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa. Its range includes Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Chad, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania, and Zambia, among other areas. It prefers a habitat within many areas including rainforests, swamps, woodlands, savannahs, and moist forests. It does not reside in completely arid...
