African Development Bank approves $20 million investment in renewable energy fund for Sub-Saharan Africa

AfricaBusinessInvestingAfrican Development Bank approves $20 million investment in renewable energy fund for Sub-Saharan Africa

PilotnewsJanuary 21, 2020

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank has approved a $20 million investment in the Metier Sustainable Capital International Fund II, which channels funds to renewable energy and resource-efficient infrastructure projects across Sub-Saharan Africa. The Bank’s funding will contribute to production of an additional 178.5 megawatts of renewable power for commercial and residential use. It will also create opportunities for industrial waste water treatment and waste-to-energy generation. The Fund will meet the Bank’s strict environment...

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Five technology trends expected in 2020 and beyond

TechnologyWorldFive technology trends expected in 2020 and beyond

PilotnewsJanuary 21, 2020

In 2019 the South African technological landscape saw tremendous changes. However, unlike in previous years, terms such as 5G, cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics were no longer just concepts at tech conferences but became part of day-to-day business operations. South Africans are increasingly looking to online digital platforms to carry out activities such as banking, shopping and trading. As application workloads shift to the cloud, the need to protect cloud-based data increases....

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Big-data healthcare service launches in Ghana

AfricaHealthBig-data healthcare service launches in Ghana

PilotnewsJanuary 21, 2020

Korean telecommunication provider, KT, announced the launch of the Global Epidemic Prevention Platform (GEPP) in Ghana on Sunday, 18 August 2019. The project, in conjunction with the Ghana Health Service (GHS), is the first public-private partnership between Korea and the West African country. The platform is the result of a joint effort by KT and the Ghanaian government to advance Ghana’s health information system using information and communications technology (ICT). According to KT, GEPP Ghana...

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PEG Africa raises $5 million for expansion in West Africa

AfricaBusinessInvestingRegionsPEG Africa raises $5 million for expansion in West Africa

PilotnewsJanuary 21, 2020

PEG Africa, a pay-as-you-go solar company based in West Africa, has recently raised $5 million from ElectriFI in order to continue its expansion in existing markets. PEG Africa finances and deploys solar energy to SMEs and households in West Africa. PEG Africa, via its PAYG financial model, allows customers to replace their spending on substandard-quality polluting fuels like kerosene and diesel with solar energy. PEG Africa currently serves 400,000 daily users in Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal and...

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How to leverage the Africa-China relationship for growth

AfricaBusinessMoneyHow to leverage the Africa-China relationship for growth

PilotnewsJanuary 21, 2020

Africa is the world’s youngest continent. That’s a double-edged sword. Though a young population is the backbone of the economy, without education and jobs, it inevitably leads to instability. As our relationship with China deepens, we can draw some lessons from that country’s experience of educating its young people. One of China’s great success stories is poverty alleviation. A staggering 850 million people have been lifted out of extreme poverty, a feat never before seen...

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MLK’s “Letters from the Birmingham Jail” invokes a major moral force in the civil-rights movement

NewsWorldMLK’s “Letters from the Birmingham Jail” invokes a major moral force in the civil-rights movement

PilotnewsJanuary 20, 2020

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a global icon: a consequential leader of the civil-rights movement, an arbiter of peace and brotherhood, a Nobel Laureate for Peace, an eagle on the iroko. And, as we celebrate Dr. King’s national holiday, it’s best to hear him directly, read his epochal “Letters from the Birmingham Jail” to be reminded of what made him such a consequential and influential figure –of any age. “Letters from the Birmingham Jail”...

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JUST IN: Tambuwal, Ganduje win at Supreme Court

NewsNigeriaPoliticsJUST IN: Tambuwal, Ganduje win at Supreme Court

PilotnewsJanuary 20, 2020

The petition had challenged the declaration of the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Governor Tambuwal, as the winner of the general and supplementary polls conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission, on 9th and 23rd of March, 2019, respectively. (NAN) NAN reports on Nov. 22, 2019 a five-man panel of the Court of Appeal, presided over by Justice Usaini Murkhtar, dismissed the appeals. NAN reports that the Sokoto State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal had...

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UK looks to fast-growing Africa for trade ties after Brexit

AfricaNewsWorldUK looks to fast-growing Africa for trade ties after Brexit

PilotnewsJanuary 20, 2020

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Prince Harry touted the U.K. as an ideal business partner for Africa on Monday as their country prepares for post-Brexit dealings with the world. But Britain faces tough challenges as it seeks to assert itself on a continent with several of the world’s fastest-growing economies and whose youthful 1.2 billion population is set to double by 2050. Far fewer of Africa’s 54 heads of state or government are attending...

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Coco Gauff tops Venus Williams at Australian Open; Serena sweeps

NewsSportsCoco Gauff tops Venus Williams at Australian Open; Serena sweeps

PilotnewsJanuary 20, 2020

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Everyone had the same question when the Australian Open draw was revealed: What were the odds that Coco Gauff and Venus Williams would face each other again in the first round at a Grand Slam tournament? ”I was a bit shocked,” Gauff said, ”I’m sure everyone was a bit shocked.” Gauff, 15, played Williams, 39, to begin her first appearance in the main draw at Melbourne Park, just like they matched...

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A Nation of Bewildered Souls

Fiction & PoetryA Nation of Bewildered Souls

PilotnewsJanuary 19, 2020

Nowadays, on every bewildered Nigerian’s mind, bemused resignation seeks solidarity with benign hope; even as hope itself wither with the tide, a swirling, rapacious current, sweeping against time. Time is what we don’t have, although you won’t know it by our leader’s whitewashed slogans, with phrases undone by their own past records. Never again? The people wished.  Their minds anguished. Unseasoned misery that these needless rains have brought along have rendered the ground weak like...

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