The African Development Bank (AfDB), along with other participating development financial institutions (DFIs) has signed loan agreements for the installation of the East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy).
A statement issued by the bank on Tuesday said that EASSy was a landmark fibre-optic cable project that will connect 22 coastal and land-locked African countries to each [...]

A new satellite pay television channel was launched on Wednesday 28 November 2007 by the country’s minister of information and communications, Alhaji Ibrahim Ben Kargbo in a glittering ceremony attended by the country’s television enthusiasts.
In a brief chat with HANA’s correspondent in Freetown before the launch Kargbo said the government and people of this country [...]

‘Teddy bear’ teacher charged with insulting Islam
Gillian Gibbons, a British teacher from Liverpool was recently arrested in Sudan and charged with blasphemy, insulting Islam and inciting hatred. What was her crime? She allowed her pupils to name a teddy bear after Muhammad (Prophet Mohammed is highly esteemed in the Muslim religion). Gillian, a 54 year [...]

Despite the annoying pop-up ads on Odili.net, “101 things you need to relocate to Nigeria” is a well-crafted prose written by Godson Offoaro. It’s a must read. Excerpt:
You must have at least two good cars. That car of yours, which you price so much, is not fashionable in Nigeria. Here some people drive the next [...]

XO, also referred to as the ‘$100 laptop’, is developed by the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative in the US, which aims not to provide computer literacy, but to improve education. However, has there been any evidence with development in emerging market countries, where jumping ahead past the immediate issues and attempting to solve them by other solutions has ever been proved to work?

Above is Chatterbox’s screenshot of the cyber discussions on Afrigator [viewed at about 11 AM US Central time / 17:00 GMT)- what the creators see as “Africa’s primary Social Media Aggregator”.
Mike Stopforth, one of the brains behind the concept, states while unveiling the beta version of the application in South Africa: “We pull content [...]

Living in Angola, I am used to the now thankfully decreasing threat of assault but after over a decade here, I suppose the odds were against me …

Ami, the newlywed bride walks into the parlor carrying a heavy tray filled with goodies destined to be ravished by her husband’s friends. She serves them all and excitedly takes a seat next to her husband. The men were engrossed in a controversial debate about ‘Nigerian Politics’, Ami, confident about her intellectual abilities to contribute [...]

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Neighbouring states in the Niger Delta where cities are far dirtier have bloated budgets from state oil revenue while the budget in Calabar’s Cross River state government is relatively small. It allocates 12 million naira [US $102,209] a year for sanitation in Calabar, Edim said, which includes programs to plant trees and grass in the city and raising awareness on the environment with ‘Keep Calabar beautiful’ signs everywhere in the city.