Every year, the L’Oréal Fondation along with UNESCO short lists 20 African women researchers for the academic excellence of their work. The young women then, enter the Sub-Saharan Africa Young Talent Awards For Women in Science.

Sourced from 16 countries, these 15 PhD students and 5 post-doctorates embody, through their backgrounds and research subjects, all the diversity and potential of tomorrow’s African science – L’Oreal.

The shortlisted 20 youth had to fight their way through a maze of nearly 330 applications. The submission were sifted through by a jury that was Chaired by Professor Nelson Torto who is the Executive Director of the African Academy of Sciences.

“They all have in common the excellence of their projects and the desire to contribute to fueling innovation in Africa” he commented.

“They are joining the community of 3,400 women researchers around the world who have been supported by the For Women in …

In the wake of circulating rumours that the European Union (EU) has resolved to withhold 626 million Euros in grant money, Tanzania has gone on the defense and denounced the rumours as false, unfounded and misleading. 

Tanzania’s Ambassador to Belgium, Jestus Nyamanga took to social media to deliver a video response to the ‘unfounded allegations,’ which he described as bias, malicious and meant to stir confusion among the public. 

“There are no talks to impose any sanctions on Tanzania…” he said, and  added allegations purported that the EU Parliamentary Committee session held on November 20 in Brussels had resolved to withhold grant money to Tanzania and was deliberating economic sanctions on the country. 

“This is not true,” the Ambassador asserted, “…the meeting … was a regular session of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and that session did not issue any resolution on Tanzania.” 

According to the Ambassador, the …

The Bank of Tanzania (BoT) has reassured customers and stakeholders of the China Commercial Bank Ltd. in Dar es Salaam that their interests are safe and secured.

“We want the public and all stakeholders to know that their money is safe and secure,” said a BoT source (name withheld).

The source went on to state that, as the official press statement from the bank says, all the stakeholders’ interests will be protected.

However, customers will not be able to carry out any transactions for the 3 months’ period that the bank will be closed.

On the morning of 19^th November 2020, the central bank of Tanzania (BoT) announced that ‘following of China Commercial Bank Limited to meet regulatory requirements regarding capital adequacy, the Bank of Tanzania has, pursuant to powers conferred to it under Section 56(1)(g)(i) and (iii) of the country’s Banking and Financial Institutions Act 2006, taken over …

Ludacris Net Worth 2021

The rapper and actor from Champaign, Illinois, Ludacris has a net worth that is estimated to be $80 million making him one of the top 100 richest rappers in the world.

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The rapper and actor from Champaign, Illinois, Ludacris has a net worth that is estimated to be $80 million making him one of the top 100 richest rappers in the world.

The college graduate has music and acting in his resume and has over the years acquired a considerable amount of fortune over the years. Known for pioneering the sound of deep South Hip-Hop to the mainstream, ‘Luda’ is one of the most recognizable names in the music industry.

Ludacris wrote his first rap when he was only nine years old, and moved on to join his first rap group …

After winning four major categories of Grammy Awards, Best Album, Best Record, Best Song, and Best New Artist, it is no surprise that 19-year-old Billie Eilish boasts a net worth of $25 million.

Her journey to stardom begun in 2016 on SoundCloud before she inked a record deal with Interscope Records. Thereafter, the rest became history the American singer and songwriter went on to fame after her 2019 single “Bad Guy” topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

That is no easy feat since she is actually the very first person in close to 40 years to accomplish that feat. It is no wonder that Billie is one of the highest-paid musicians in the world.

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Billie Eilish net worth is $53M

She racked in a whopping $50 million in just one year between June 2019 and June 2020.

Check those dates, Billie was well …

Africa is suffering the worst from the effects of global warming. The continent is the least prepared to respond to adverse weather changes brought about by global warming.

The devastating effects range from unpredictable weather that is causing floods and famine across the continent. The economic impact for agriculture dependent Africa is huge. This is why Joe Biden’s win is very important for Africa.

Biden is clearly for action against global warming the least of which not been his outright statement that his administration will bring America back into the Paris Climate Deal. The Paris Agreement is a direct response to climate change in which countries from around the world have agreed to cut down their green house gas emissions to check global warming.

The US was part of the deal, that is until Donald Trump came into the picture and pulled the US out of the deal.

If Trump …

Tanzania reelects Magufuli President

It is five more years for Tanzania’s incumbent president John Pombe Magufuli after he was announced the winner of the 2020 elections last night.

Just a few minutes after the clock ticked 10 PM the Tanzania National Electoral Commission (NEC) Chairman Semistocles Kaijage announced Magufuli’s reelection.

According to NEC, the president-elect racked in 12.5 million votes of the 15 million people that voted (20 million registered to vote).

With the 85 % popularity vote not only does Magufuli take the top office again but his ruling party CCM also takes a historic position after knocking down all of the opposition strong holds.

Two of the top opposition leaders Tundu Lissu and Freeman Mboye all lost their parliament seats along with another outspoken opposition leader Zitto Kabwe.

In fact CCM has taken over 194 seats (this figure maybe higher) in the 393 member parliament,

As a United …

In an unprecedented and rather unexpected move, in October 2020 US President Donald Trump went ahead and erased Sudan out of the US’ proverbial blacklist of countries that harbour terrorists or support terror groups. 

President Trump, who is not exactly known for his keen favour for Africa, took to Twitter to announce his decision to remove Sudan from the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism (SST). 

He said Sudan had proved itself a willing participant to change and fight against terrorism. He twitted that Sudan’s transitional government has agreed to pay a US$335 million package to US victims of attacks and their relatives.  

Also Read: Will South Sudan’s currency devaluation prove strategic or worthless?

The reparations package is to compensate victims and families impacted by a series of terrorist attacks, including the bombing of US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998, and an attack …

How criminals capitalized on lax security  

The world was caught with its guard down by a Hollywood doomsday scenario, the infamous Coronavirus alias Covid-19 but not all were hoodwinked in fear for criminal enterprises capitalized on the pandemic. 

Some coldly honest person once said ‘war is an opportunity for profit’! Some terrible opportunists have equally seized the chance to profit from the global pandemic.  

Criminals have exploited the pandemic, says the Europol 2020 report, as governments relaxed controls to speed up healthcare and social protection and as companies increased system integrations. 

As organizations and governments are increasing and allowing ever so much system integrations to reduce physical contact, criminals have used the COVID-19 crisis to distribute various malware and to hack into otherwise very secure systems.  

“Cybercriminals are also likely to seek to exploit an increasing number of attack vectors as a greater number of …

Dr. Hussein Ali Mwinyi Following in his father’s footsteps, He contested for and won the office of the President in Zanzibar.

Elected on 28^th October, his landslide win was announced the following day after he racked in over 76 percent of all votes. In his acceptance speech, delivered minutes after his win was announced, the newly elected president of the Isles took the opportunity to call for unity and to put aside all differences.

It is now time to build a new Zanzibar, he said in his acceptance speech.

” Zanzibar is bigger and more important than any of our difference,” he said and let us now set aside our differences, the president-elect.

Born on 23 December 1966 Dr. Hussein Ali Mwinyi is the current Minister of Defense and National Service of Tanzania and is the son of former president Ali Hassan Mwinyi. His father was the second president …