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Demanding Justice: Nigerian army culpable in #EndSARS massacre, removing colonial tributes, plus British banks leave, & will Kenyan Unis close & more
Accountability: South African apartheid president apologises, France returns looted Benin art, & Africa wants more climate change financing & more
Global recognition: Africans cover Vogue France & GQ Germany, a French literary prize, remembering Africans in WW1, & another fintech unicorn & more
New contenders: Nigeria launches eNaira, Somali film makes global headlines, Egypt’s regional pharma hub, the rise of Ghana’s upstream oil & more
Challenge status quo: African Covid experts leave, South Africa rejects Russian vaccine, Egypt’s 100 female judges, too much democracy in Sudan & more
African Renaissance: First African Nobel Prize in Literature in decades, 100mn creative fund, Netflix searches for African film-makers & more
Inventive Africa: Andela pivots to unicorn, African facial recognition tech, 3D-printed prosthetic limbs Africa’s first central bank crypto & more
New Frontiers: Expanding African genetic collection, Chinese banks eye Nigeria, African fintech for churches, black female makes Emmy history & more
Tracking progress: Covid-19 vaccinations, France & Russia fight for Mali, the cost of Nigeria’s Twitter ban, African comics go global & more
Pioneering: Central bank crypto systems, Francophone Africa’s first unicorn, Zanzibar's new tourist tower, African data centre expansion & more
Investment opportunities: Ghana’s smart villages & new hospitals, record African startups join Y Combinator, Boko Haram fighters surrender & more
Protecting homegrown: Africa’s new fintech unicorn, Facebook’s marketplace rollout, Congolese Rumba seeks UNESCO listing, & more
Youth potential: Youth-inspired presidential victory in Zambia, Senagalese TikTok star reaches 100m followers, decolonising sciences, & more
African Heritage: New UN body for people of African descent, bias in UNESCO World Heritage, Namibia auctions elephants, & Hushpuppi, the movie, & more
Connecting for growth: Boosting Africa-Asia trade, 1.5km Nigeria-Cameroon bridge, Wizkid sells out London, & Ghana protests to #FixTheCountry, & more
Game changers: Tunisian ‘coup’, Nigerian crypto, local vaccine production, Obama invests in NBA Africa, & black athletes choose mental health, and more
Defending rights: Spying on African leaders, reversing Tanzania’s mobile money tax & Nigeria's new jets to fight insecurity, and more
Be the first: Visa card payments, first local telco & electric trains launch across the Continent, plus opportunities in jewellery & e-waste, and more
Home-grown: Dangote needs more tomatoes, 3D house printing, Swahili for African integration, decolonising fashion & discrimination at Olympics, and more
Confronting inequities: Mobile internet too costly, Zuma sentenced, keeping girls in school, crypto for school fees, vaccine racism, and more
Deserving of dignity: Juneteenth a federal holiday, abuse of African travellers, Dangote goes global, a Nigerian digital currency, and more
Threatening sovereignty: Chinese security firms in Africa, medical oxygen shortages, Netflix Africa expansion & exporting Nigerian electricity, and more
Protect our youth: Nigeria's youths told to behave, burying drowned migrants, France ends military policy, & WhatsApp Pay launches in Africa, and more
Capturing value: The new fintech unicorn, on-ground Covid vaccine manufacturing, Nigeria bans twitter, & policing women’s trousers in parliament, and more
Address inequalities: $1.2bn Africa vaccine hubs, Twitter scraps race-biased algorithm, NBA expands to Africa, and Adidas cultural appropriation, and more
Increase leverage: Egypt brokers Gaza cease-fire, $100bn IMF funding for Africa, Amazon, Alibaba & Space-X expand, a new basketball league, and more
Take a stand: Tanzania & Kenya build bridges, SA corruption case heats up, the female 'firebrand' Chief Justice, & Germany gives back bronzes, and more
Take ownership: Nigeria calls on US military, SADC steps in to Mozambique violence, Lagos to go off-grid, and a Ugandan Oscar win, and more
Racial (in)justice: Tokyo Olympics ban taking a knee, racism in war commemoration, setback in African decolonisation, Amazon enters Africa, and more
Enabling growth: Twitter chooses Ghana for HQ, Africa’s tech funding boom, new vaccine manufacturing hubs, & Uganda-Tanzania oil pipeline deal, and more
On the brink: Mozambique’s $120bn crisis, DRC measles resurgence, TikTok paying African artists, victory for African languages, and more
Return our art: Germany to return Benin bronzes, Tanzania's first female president, Egypt capital switch, & game change for Africa's gig economy, and more
Transcend boundaries: African ecommerce goes global, Nigeria's Grammy wins, Libya’s multi-actor government, RIP Tanzania's Magufuli, and more
Make moves: Kenya leapfrogs with electric mobility, Flutterwave flies to unicorn status, Africa’s first US meat export, and more
Test for diversity: Tackling youth unemployment, SA's race row, kidnapping-for-ransom, plus black billionaires & a cure for HIV? #WomensDay, and more
Count the cost: AU bankrolling infrastructure, IFC's first African CEO, price to retire in Africa, Tanzania accepts Covid too late? and more
Breaking barriers: Mobile money to shop abroad, Africa's emerging leaders shaping the world, & 9 countries to join 'Gigawatt Club' #BeLikeNgozi, and more
Make tough choices: Covid-19 vaccine hitch, Nigeria’s crypto ban, Sudan appoints ex-rebels, cancelling MTV Africa Music Awards, and more
In Transition: $12bn for vaccines, #BLM for Nobel Peace Prize, Wakanda TV series, reversing Trump’s insulting Africa policies, and more
Playing Catch Up: Covid-19 vaccines waiting game, Nigeria to reform oil bill, Michelin star for Senegalese chef, and $120mn for football talent, and more
Welcome back from the Pulse Team, and 2021's first edition of The Continent-wide insight
See you in 2021: Happy Holidays from the Movemeback Pulse Team, and 2020's final edition of actionable insight, and more
Enable the future: Leaders commit to halve internet costs, PayPal & MFS target underbanked, renewable powered data centers, a Sickle Cell cure, and more
Green Agenda: Ghana's Wakanda pilgrimage site, Nigeria pushes home solar kits & tells Shell to pay, East Africa’s commercial electric tuk-tuks, and more
Counting the cost: $15k bond to enter USA, Africa turns to Russia & China for vaccines, robbing girls' futures, pollution - the silent killer, and more
A Global Race: Bezos backs African fintech, Russia's new naval base, Huawei increases its coverage, whilst Britain spends on archaeology, and more
Solve for Connectivity: Pfizer’s Covid vaccine cold-chain challenge, a new West African super-fast broadband network, countdown to AfCFTA, and more
Patience is a virtue: Could Biden revive hopes of Africa’s first WTO head, Sudan steps towards peace, Ethiopia urged to avoid civil war, and more
Pause for reflection: Nigeria on a knife edge, a reminder Africa’s economic success is rooted in good policy and governance, and more
Gaining Momentum: Nigeria’s $200m fintech exit, Africa's aviation future, cyber-security in-demand, Namibia's youth call to #ShutItAllDown, and more
Mobilise globally: Nigerians worldwide protest to #EndSARS, Ethiopia calls upon its diaspora, UK celebrates black history month, and more
Reform the Constitution: Kenya says no to more men whilst Gambia says yes to more years; pursuit of the 'African language', a Covid vaccine, and more
Reform Global Credit: Zambia defaults, US exercises its financial leverage, and the diaspora investment fund; plus Disney expands in Nigeria, and more
Partner for success: Uganda & Tanzania's $3.5bn pipeline, Ghana & Cote d'Ivoire's cocoa collaboration, and Dangote mediates Benin & Nigeria, and more
Feed our youth: Paying to share, Bitcoin's African renaissance, black hair ≠normal, and still waiting for Eco, and more
Open Skies: Healthcare's moment for momentum, Kannywood makes a break from Nollywood, Africa's reopening stutters, and more
Rest in Power: Polio no-more, Nigeria's oil self-sufficiency, the $500mn case for remittances, declaring war on the mobile virus, and more
Coup in Mali, Egypt’s fintech unicorn, South Africa’s hydrogen potential, Morocco’s tomato success irks competition, and more
Sudan bans nut exports, DRC’s mega hydro-power plant, Russia’s expansion into Africa, Africa Code Week, and more
Car assembly in Ghana, Kenya’s nuclear ambitions, concern for Africa’s ports, South Africa tackles femicide, and more
Cassava for electricity, Tiktok’s Africa moves, South Africa gets IMF’s biggest ever loan, and more
South Africa's coding curriculum, Nairobi's high-tech city, the push for traditional medicine, and more
Mozambique's massive LNG project, Nigeria’s envoy to Mali, South Africa’s universal income grants, and more
Zimbabwe's $3.5bn bid to end to sanctions, Google’s internet balloons launch, threats to HIV progress, the EAC, and more
South Africa's GDPR moment, Ghana's cocoa industry boost, Gambia advances on solar ambitions, and more
Zimbabwe rolls back mobile-money, Djibouti joins the sovereign wealth club, ECOWAS currency tensions, and an animation revolution, and more
Rwanda pursues nuclear; Netflix, Facebook & Whatsapp invest as Kenya counters with digital tax and returns to the AfCFTA table, and more
Ghana welcomes African Americans, China suspends debt, an African digital currency, 54 countries going on 55? #BringBackArt, and more
The intra-trade moment - agriculture exports at risk, tourism on hold, Ghana car import ban, plus Sahel - the new Syria, and more
Big spend on healthcare + infrastructure, AfCFTA under siege, and should African foreign policy include #blacklivesmatter, and more
Africa Day 2020, internet shutdowns, CFA departs, China-Africa tension, and more
Facebook undersea connectivity, AfCFTA postponed, Nigeria eyes recession, and more
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