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Born June 25, 1982, Guillermina-Mekuy Mba Obono is a writer, politician and Equatorial Guinean entrepreneur. She is a former Minister of Culture and Artisan Promotion in the Presidency of Equatorial Guinea .  What else? She was Secretary of State for Culture (2009-2012)...

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At 22, Ashley Uys started his first business and has since garnered many accolades for his entrepreneurial prowess. In 2008 – aged just 24 – he won the South African Breweries (SAB) Kick Start National Business of the Year Award....

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Regina Honu is a Ghanaian Social Entrepreneur, software developer with 8 years’ work experience and founder of Soronko Solutions, a software development company in Ghana. She opened Soronko Academy, the first coding and human-centered design school for children and...

The Algerian government authorised the resumption of urban transport services last week Sunday, but the strict measures imposed by the government are causing discontent. On Monday, the taxi drivers demonstrated at the headquarters of the national union of taxi drivers...

Zakaria Hersi inspires us to such an extent that we want to call him up again for an award. Be like Zakaria!

The landlocked once fertile West African nation of Burkina Faso has been hard hit by drought and desertification. The area used to support generations of farmers, but families now can only scrape a living. Go deeper: Food insecurity already affects two...

Merely looking at his profile makes us wonder what has been taking all your time; you also wonder why one person has so many awards and you are only coveting just one that you won many years ago. But...

South Africa is drawing up plans for a 2,500-megawatt nuclear programme to try to solve the country's power supply problem, the energy ministry announced Sunday. "Given the long lead-time of building additional new nuclear capacity, upfront planning is necessary for...