Unicef announced a new partnership with Airtel Africa aimed at providing children with access to remote learning and enabling access to cash assistance for their families via mobile cash transfers. Under this partnership, Unicef and Airtel will use mobile technology to benefit an estimated 133 million school-age children currently affected by school closures in thirteen countries across sub-Saharan Africa during the Covid-19 pandemic. https://www.totaltele.com/505970/UNICEF-joins-with-Airtel-to-facilitate-remote-education-in-Africa
Introducing Africa’s Biggest Digital Classroom to Bring It All Together!
This is perhaps the most ambitious move yet building Africa’s Biggest Digital classroom . This Digital Classroom is being designed to respond to the challenges of widespread education exclusion, low Financial Literacy rates on the continent, vastly uneven teacher-to-learner ratios, as well as accessibility to physical and financial resources that continue to hamper the success of the delivery of Education on the continent today, and into the future. https://www.cnbcafrica.com/brandcom/2020/05/21/building-africas-biggest-digital-classroom/
The 255 pyramids found today in Sudan are nearly twice the number scattered across the Egypt. According to various accounts, in Egypt the number of the pyramids totals between 118 and 138. the Kushite king, Piankhi, overthrew the 24th Dynasty and united the entire Nile valley, all the way from the delta to the city of Napata, during his reign. Piankhi, as well as his descendants, ruled as the pharaohs of the 25th Dynasty. The Napatan domination of Egypt would last until the Assyrian conquest of Egypt in 656 BC. https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/01/18/sudan-pyramids/
Some of Africa's biggest music stars are lined up to perform at a 2-hour long virtual concert on Monday to celebrate Africa Day. Actor and musician, Idris Elba is hosting the concert titled 'Africa Day Benefit Concert at Home' through a partnership with music channel, MTV Base Africa, and YouTube. The concert will feature performances from music acts like Benin's Angelique Kidjo, Kenya's Sauti Sol, South Africa's Sho Madjozi, and Nigeria's Burna Boy. South African comedian Trevor Noah, reigning Miss Universe, Zozibini Tunzi, and rapper Sean Paul are also part of the concert's https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/21/africa/idris-elba-africa-day-concert/index.html to watch the concert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31kWNB6f9DM
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Digo people. The Digo are an ethnic and linguistic group based near the Indian Ocean coast between Mombasa in southern Kenya and Tanga in northern Tanzania. ... They are part of the greater Mijikenda ethnic group of people which contains nine smaller groups or tribes, including the Duruma, Giriama, and other https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/the-digo-community-of-kenya-national-museums-of-kenya/MAKyyu0nfiQxIg?hl=en
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