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Africa turns to mobile payments as a tool to curb COVID-19

As Covid-19 continues to spread in Africa, the continent is developing new habits to facilitate lives of people. Part of these new habits, Africa is using digital finance as a means to stem the spread of COVID-19. Governments and startups on the continent are implementing measures to shift a greater volume of payment transactions toward […]

Paris attack leaves France in Trauma, places Europe on war footing

While France is embarking on a long journey to heal its wounds after the Friday terrorist onslaught that traumatized the country, the whole world is continuing expressing solidarity with the European State and condemning the outrageous attempt that left 132 people dead and more than 350 wounded, the highest casualties ever in a terror assault […]

UK’s new PM scraps Rwanda deportation scheme, declaring it ‘dead and buried’

The newly elected British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has said he is scrapping his predecessor’s controversial policy to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda, describing the scheme “dead and buried before it started”. On his first full day as a Prime Minister, Starmer announced that the Rwandan deportation scheme will be nullified, noting that it was expensive […]