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	ZIMBABWE Harmonising media research across Africa [Oresti Patricios] Beyond Babel: harmonising media research across Africa for a more prosperous future... read

Youth Month

	SOUTH AFRICA Four things you can learn from Afrillennial smartphone preferences There's more to the youth's product choices than meets the eye and one industry that has the most tell-tale signs about the youth market is the mobile industry... read

The winners (L-R): Albert Smith and Joachim ?Baumgaertner, Ages, Sierra Leone; Rayan Kassis, Menatach, Nigeria; Antoine Dubas, Stucky, Madagascar

MADAGASCAR
African renewable energy projects win

Three African renewable energy projects announced as winners of the US$7million Access Co-development Facility prize out of 96 entries spanning 25 countries across Africa... read

AFRICA
Africa: the tech continent

Sulaiman Philip

Mobile technology is allowing tech-savvy Africans to leapfrog western developers, developing African solutions to African problems... read

SOUTH AFRICA
Extreme innovation meets behavioural economics

Leslie Pascaud

If the best innovation is designed to meet real needs, nowhere are the opportunities more pressing than in humanitarian aid. Here's how the type and amplitude of innovation can have implications well beyond philanthropy... read

SOUTH AFRICA
Fulfilling the promise of blockchain

Lee Naik

An internet of finance. The renaissance of money. If the previous decade was the age of mobile banking, the next looks set to be the era of blockchain. No other technology has more potential... read

EGYPT
Egyptian drone startup Drofie raises funding

Tom Jackson

Egyptian drone startup Drofie has beaten off competition from 865 other applicants to win a place in the Switzerland-based Kickstart Accelerator... read

ZIMBABWE
Dandemutande appoints new CEO

Dandemutande has appointed Nhena Nyagura as CEO to lead the business, following its merger in 2015 with iWayAfrica Zimbabwe and Africa Online... read

SOUTH AFRICA
How Africa can empower more women to become leaders in science

Ghada Bassioni et al

A woman's place is in the home. Her "job" is to marry and to raise children. This thinking still prevails in most parts of the world - and it is one of the major reasons that only about 30% of women in sub-Saharan Africa are working in research and development... read

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	@wef What is the future of the internet? https://t.co/jrJBd59OPo #4ir #amnc16 https://t.co/yYZ3zwkR2w - Mon Jun 27
	@SABCNewsOnline RT @ivorprice: BREAKING: SABC CEO Jimi Matthews resigns 'What is happening...is wrong & I can no longer be a part of it.' #sabcnews https:/... - Mon Jun 27
	@Afrinnovator MTN ups 4G investment in Ghana https://t.co/Y8K3HaaH5z #Africa #tech #news - Mon Jun 27
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ZIMBABWEHarmonising media research across Africa

SOUTH AFRICAFour things you can learn from Afrillennial smartphone preferences

MADAGASCARAfrican renewable energy projects win

AFRICAAfrica: the tech continent

SOUTH AFRICAExtreme innovation meets behavioural economics

SOUTH AFRICAFulfilling the promise of blockchain

EGYPTEgyptian drone startup Drofie raises funding

ZIMBABWEDandemutande appoints new CEO

SOUTH AFRICAHow Africa can empower more women to become leaders in science