Quartz Africaflipped into Quartz Africa3 days agoHow Rwanda became a melting pot of official languagesverified_publisherQuartz - Jeremie EyssetteToday, Rwanda is a melting pot of official languages. Although more than 99% of Rwandans speak Kinyarwanda—a Bantu language and the country’s mother-tongue—Rwanda has three other official languages: French, English, and Swahili. How did the Central African nation end up with four official languages? …
Quartz Africaflipped into Quartz Africa3 days agoThese are the next startup investment hotspots in west Africaverified_publisherQuartz - Seth OnyangoStartup tracker, Africa: The Big Deal’s figures show that since 2019, west African startups have hauled in $4.2 billion, representing 41% of the total funds logged in Africa in that period. “Startups in the region have attracted more funding than in northern and eastern Africa combined during the …
Quartz Africaflipped into Quartz Africa4 days agoMTN's MoMo PSB breach underscores spike in cyber fraud in Nigerian bankingverified_publisherQuartz - Alexander OnukwueMoMo Payment Service Bank, the new financial services subsidiary of telecoms company MTN Nigeria, suffered a breach in the last week of May just days after launch, reportedly losing 22 billion naira ($53 million.) Nigerian payment service banks operate with a mobile money license reserved for …
Quartz Africaflipped into Quartz Africa4 days agoMorocco is prosecuting migrants instead of security forcesverified_publisherQuartz - Faustine NgilaThe Moroccan government has started prosecutions. But not on its police forces who coordinated with Spanish police to exert brutal force that contributed to the loss of 23 lives but on 65 of the 2,000 migrants who attempted to cross into the Spanish north African enclave of Melilla. The …
Quartz Africaflipped into Quartz Africa6 days agoAnother Nigerian state is licensing personal guns for self-defenseverified_publisherQuartz - Alexander OnukwueZamfara in northwest Nigeria is encouraging its residents, especially farmers, to apply for licenses that will allow them to carry guns and other weapons, for self-defense against worsening insecurity in the state. The state’s plan is to start with 500 gun licenses in each of the state’s 19 …
Quartz Africaflipped into Quartz Africa6 days agoFatmata Binta is this year's winner of the Basque Culinary World Prizeverified_publisherQuartz - Faustine NgilaA Sierra Leone-born chef is this year’s winner of the Basque Culinary World Prize (BCWP), and the first African to bag the $105,000 prize. Fatmata Binta, based in Ghana, beat 1,000 nominees to emerge as the world’s top chef for showcasing sustainable nomadic culinary culture and exploring the …
