Search results
Zimbabwe's ZiG is the world's newest currency and its latest attempt to resolve a money crisis
Associated Press via Yahoo Finance· 2 days agoZimbabwe on Tuesday started circulating a new currency to replace one that has been battered by...
Zimbabwe Rolls Out New ZiG Currency
newser· 2 days agoSince it was launched electronically on April 5, the ZiG—short for Zimbabwe Gold and backed by the country's gold reserves—appears to be heading down the...
Africa Climate Tech Funding
The Daily Reflector· 4 hours agoOladapo Adekunle, an engineer with Rensource Energy, installs solar panels on a roof of a house in Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday, March 21, 2024. Funding for...
Priest Shot Dead in South Africa; Catholic Bishops There Decry ‘Pandemic’ of Murder
National Catholic Register· 7 hours agoFather Paul Tatu Mothobi, a member the Congregation of the Sacred Stigmata (CSS/Stigmatines) and former media and communications officer of the Southern African Catholic Bishops ...
United Methodists remove anti-gay language from their official teachings on societal issues
San Francisco Chronicle· 3 hours agoUnited Methodist delegates on Thursday removed a 52-year-old declaration from their official social...
Farmers in Africa look to ancient fertilizer methods and new greenhouse technologies as climate...
Fortune· 4 days agoAfrica, with the world’s youngest population, faces the worst effects of a warming planet while contributing the least to the problem. Farmers are scrambling to make sure ...
How South Africa has changed 30 years after apartheid
The Economist· 9 hours agoNelson Mandela voted for the first time in his life on April 27th 1994 in Inanda, a poor area on the...
US losing ground to Russia in geopolitical battle over Africa
The Hill via AOL· 2 days agoThe expected withdrawal of U.S. forces from Niger will endanger U.S. counter-terrorism operations...
Physical version of gold-backed token replaces Zimbabwe dollar
The Cointelegraph· 2 days agoThe Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has introduced Zimbabwe Gold, or the ZiG, in paper and coin form, following the new currency’s debut as a digital payment method ...
South Africa’s Lemba people: how they view their Jewishness challenges Zionist ideas that identity...
The Conversation· 3 days agoIt is Mapungubwe Hill, a Unesco World Heritage Site in the north of South Africa’s Limpopo province. The man in the yarmulke is one of around 100,000 Lemba people, Black Jews ...