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cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td class="" style="vertical-align:top;width:620px;" ><![endif]--></p> <div class="mj-column-per-100 outlook-group-fix" style="font-size:13px;text-align:left;direction:ltr;display:inline-block;vertical-align:top;width:100%;"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top;padding:0;"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="100%"> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;">Hi Quartz Africa readers!</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;">In much less than three years, OPay has long gone from a queer startup identified for its motorcycles in Lagos, Nigeria, to a monetary services and products firm value $2 billion. The most modern valuation comes after the firm raised $400 million in a round led by SoftBank, with Sequoia Capital China and 5 other good companies participating.</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;">OPay’s unusual valuation makes it the fastest African startup to injurious $1 billion in value (although there’s a debate about whether or now not it even <em>is</em> an African startup. OPay is owned by Chinese language billionaire Yahui Zhou thru Opera, the tool firm based mostly mostly in Norway).</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;">In Nigeria, which has been the defective for OPay’s vital operations for the explanation that startup launched in 2018, “agent banking” is a fresh source of enhance. The firm provides contributors with a level-of-sale machine and underlying tool, so they’ll act as banks and ATMs. Though they would possibly presumably presumably now not be available in the market 24/7, these brokers are in a space to open bank accounts, acquire deposits, and fulfill withdrawals. OPay says it processes $3 billion in transactions every month.</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;">Challenge capital has also pushed the firm’s mercurial enhance. Interior a six-month length in 2019, OPay raised $50 million and then $120 million, surroundings down an early marker for its ambition to dominate African fintech. The realizing became to be a trim app for seek for-to-seek for payments, transportation, food, asset administration, and even instantaneous messaging.</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;">SoftBank’s investment opens the likelihood that it can presumably presumably well moreover toughen more African startups, although the scale of this round signifies that these startups will must quiet be on a speedily-music enhance trajectory unbiased like OPay’s. That would attain with its grasp invent of pressure, and SoftBank’s rocky adventure with WeWork stays unusual in loads of minds. Restful, the firm’s entry confirms that African fintech is mature and has the enviornment . —<i>Alexander Onukwe, west Africa correspondent</i></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size:0px;padding:20px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <p style="border-top:solid 1px #D3D3D3;font-size:1;margin:0px auto;width:100%;"> <p><!--[if mso | IE]> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-top:solid 1px #D3D3D3;font-size:1;margin:0px auto;width:620px;" role="presentation" width="620px" > <tr> <td style="height:0;line-height:0;"> </td> </tr> </table> <![endif]--></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" class="subheadline" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0 4px;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-weight:bold;line-height:15px;text-align:left;text-transform:uppercase;color:#168dd9;">Stories this week</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;"><b>Africa joins the international dwelling dart. </b>African countries are searching to accommodate to fulfill the rising quiz of for connectivity, fueled by speedily-changing records consumption patterns, and the rising wish to bridge the digital divide in landlocked countries. Conrad Onyango unpacks the targets of the <a href="https://qz.com/africa/2051243/africa-joins-global-space-race-to-boost-connectivity-and-security/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=africa-weekly-brief&utm_content=39a56a0c-0725-11ec-8399-4e75844b307b" universal="true" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">continent’s diversified dwelling applications</a>.</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;"><b>Dropped at you by #KOT. </b>The arrival of vaccine shipments are publicized events in Kenya. But there’s now not continuously ever an equal effort by the authorities to publicize locations where the public can entry the doses. Carlos Mureithi looks to be at <a href="https://qz.com/africa/2050779/kenyans-are-sharing-covid-19-vaccine-information-on-social-media/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=africa-weekly-brief&utm_content=39a56a0c-0725-11ec-8399-4e75844b307b" universal="true" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">how Kenyans are the exhaust of social media</a> to unfold foremost aspects of Covid-19 vaccine availability.</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;"><b>Nigeria’s Robinhood-love apps at a crossroads. </b>Four Nigerian companies that provide stock investment services and products are dealing with a predicament after a court docket ordered their bank accounts to be frozen by the Central Monetary institution of Nigeria. They bid commerce continues as long-established, nonetheless Alexander Onukwue explains how <a href="https://qz.com/africa/2051307/retail-trading-apps-in-nigeria-face-a-defining-moment/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=africa-weekly-brief&utm_content=39a56a0c-0725-11ec-8399-4e75844b307b" universal="true" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the apex bank’s blessing is de facto barely foremost</a>.</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;"><b>Kenyans are #1 in seek for-to-seek for crypto trading.</b> Web-savvy Kenyans lead the enviornment in the case of people the exhaust of digital currency platforms to commerce amongst themselves, a unusual file presentations. Conrad Onyango finds that the construction has been partly influenced by <a href="https://qz.com/africa/2050735/kenyans-lead-the-world-in-peer-to-peer-crypto-trade/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=africa-weekly-brief&utm_content=39a56a0c-0725-11ec-8399-4e75844b307b" universal="true" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">weakening African currencies as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic</a>.</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;"><b>A brand unusual pandemic helps science strive in opposition to an dilapidated one. </b>Oxford University scientists to blame for the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine are the exhaust of the an identical know-how to take a look at a unusual vaccine in opposition to plague. Centuries after inflicting regarded as one of the worst pandemics in historical past, the infectious illness continues to peril parts of Africa, writes Uwagbale Edward-Ekpu, which this day accounts <a href="https://qz.com/africa/2052289/covid-19-vaccine-technology-trialed-to-combat-plague-in-africa/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=africa-weekly-brief&utm_content=39a56a0c-0725-11ec-8399-4e75844b307b" universal="true" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">for 90% of all reported cases</a>.</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size:0px;padding:20px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <p style="border-top:solid 1px #D3D3D3;font-size:1;margin:0px auto;width:100%;"> <p><!--[if mso | IE]> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-top:solid 1px #D3D3D3;font-size:1;margin:0px auto;width:620px;" role="presentation" width="620px" > <tr> <td style="height:0;line-height:0;"> </td> </tr> </table> <![endif]--></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" class="subheadline" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0 4px;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-weight:bold;line-height:15px;text-align:left;text-transform:uppercase;color:#168dd9;">Charting the upward thrust of streaming subscribers</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;">The likelihood of subscription video-on-quiz of users in Africa is projected to attain more than 5 million by the cease of this yr, and15 million by 2026, per <a href="https://www.digitaltvresearch.com/ugc/Africa%20SVOD%20Forecasts%202021%20TOC_sample_328.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a unusual projection</a> (pdf). Whereas Netflix and Disney+ will hang a chunk of these subscribers, they face stiff competition from home platforms combating for the continent’s eyeballs.</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" style="font-size:0px;padding:15px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px;"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:620px;"><img decoding="async" alt="" height="auto" src="https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/D3z1B-subscribers-of-video-streaming-services-in-africa.png?w=1280" style="border:0;display:block;outline:none;text-decoration:none;height:auto;width:100%;font-size:13px;" width="620"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;">“The selective open plans from some international platforms works in desire of regional gamers,” Simon Murray, essential analyst at Digital TV Analysis, said in the file. Carlos Mureithi <a href="https://qz.com/africa/2052540/african-streaming-platforms-have-an-edge-over-netflix-and-disney/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=africa-weekly-brief&utm_content=39a56a0c-0725-11ec-8399-4e75844b307b" universal="true" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">analyzes what this style for native gamers love Showmax</a>.</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size:0px;padding:20px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <p style="border-top:solid 1px #D3D3D3;font-size:1;margin:0px auto;width:100%;"> <p><!--[if mso | IE]> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-top:solid 1px #D3D3D3;font-size:1;margin:0px auto;width:620px;" role="presentation" width="620px" > <tr> <td style="height:0;line-height:0;"> </td> </tr> </table> <![endif]--></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" class="subheadline" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0 4px;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-weight:bold;line-height:15px;text-align:left;text-transform:uppercase;color:#168dd9;">By the digits</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" style="font-size:0px;padding:15px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px;"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:620px;"><img decoding="async" alt="Sanele Msibi assists a customer inside the Skhaftin bus in Johannesburg, South Africa" height="auto" src="https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/2021-05-24T143841Z_1_LYNXNPEH4N0Q8_RTROPTP_4_US-SAFRICA-FOOD-POLLUTION-e1629879109507.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1280" style="border:0;display:block;outline:none;text-decoration:none;height:auto;width:100%;font-size:13px;" width="620"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:0 0 10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:14px;text-align:left;color:#4c4c4c;">Reuters/Kim Harrisberg</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;"><b>7.8 million: </b> South Africans out of a job in the 2d quarter of this yr</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;"><b>34.4%: </b>South Africa’s 2021 unemployment rate, its absolute most sensible since 2008</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;"><b>41%: </b>Unemployment rate for African Dark girls, the toughest hit neighborhood</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;"><b>40,000: </b>Companies tormented by fresh protests</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;"><b>1%: </b>South Africans who grasp more than half the country’s wealth.</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;">Sustained economic disruption from Covid-19, austerity measures, chronic inequality, a decline in foreign places investment, and dejected authorities insurance policies own all been cited as contributors to South Africa’s sage unemployment numbers. Yet even fresh records <a href="https://qz.com/africa/2051433/the-reason-for-south-africas-record-unemployment-rate/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=africa-weekly-brief&utm_content=39a56a0c-0725-11ec-8399-4e75844b307b" universal="true" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">doesn’t duvet a fresh wave of unrest</a> following the arrest of dilapidated president Jacob Zuma, Tawanda Karombo writes, which arrangement an even grimmer outlook.</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size:0px;padding:20px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <p style="border-top:solid 1px #D3D3D3;font-size:1;margin:0px auto;width:100%;"> <p><!--[if mso | IE]> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-top:solid 1px #D3D3D3;font-size:1;margin:0px auto;width:620px;" role="presentation" width="620px" > <tr> <td style="height:0;line-height:0;"> </td> </tr> </table> <![endif]--></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" class="subheadline" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0 4px;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-weight:bold;line-height:15px;text-align:left;text-transform:uppercase;color:#168dd9;">Dealmaker</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;"><b>Plentywaka</b>, the Nigerian mobility startup, has <a href="https://disrupt-africa.com/2021/08/25/nigerian-mobility-startup-plentywaka-raises-1-2m-seed-funding-acquires-ghanas-stabus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">secured $1.2 million in seed funding</a> and launched the acquisition of Ghanaian startup Stabus. The investment became led by <b>The Xchange</b>, with participation from <b>Techstars</b>, <b>SOSV</b>, <b>ShockVentures</b>, <b>Argentil Capital Companions</b>, <b>ODBA & Co Ventures,</b> and angel investors.</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;"><b>PawaPay</b>, a UK-based mostly mostly and Africa-focused payments firm, has <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/26/pawapay-raises-9m-seed-backed-by-msa-88mph-and-mr-eazis-zagadat-capital/amp/?__twitter_impression=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">closed $9 million in seed funding</a> to scale its operational presence, recruit talent, and lengthen into unusual markets. <b>88mph</b> and <b>MSA Capital</b> co-led the round, with participation from <b>Zagadat Capital</b>, <b>Kepple Ventures</b>, and <b>Vunani Capital</b>.</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;"><b>Odiggo</b>, the Egyptian-based mostly auto tech startup, has <a href="https://www.forbesmiddleeast.com/innovation/startups/dubai-based-automotive-spare-parts-marketplace-odiggo-raises-%2422m-in-seed-round" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">raised a $2.2 million seed round</a>. Taking part in the round were<b> Y Combinator</b>, <b>500 Startups</b>,<b> Scoot and Play Ventures</b>, <b>Seedra Ventures</b>, <b>LoftyInc Capital</b>, and <b>Essa Al-Saleh</b> (CEO of Volta Vehicles). The investment is geared in opposition to rising and expanding the startup’s personnel in UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt.</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size:0px;padding:20px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <p style="border-top:solid 1px #D3D3D3;font-size:1;margin:0px auto;width:100%;"> <p><!--[if mso | IE]> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-top:solid 1px #D3D3D3;font-size:1;margin:0px auto;width:620px;" role="presentation" width="620px" > <tr> <td style="height:0;line-height:0;"> </td> </tr> </table> <![endif]--></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" class="subheadline" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0 4px;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-weight:bold;line-height:15px;text-align:left;text-transform:uppercase;color:#168dd9;">How vaccine mandates work</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;">Many companies around the enviornment are issuing vaccine mandates for personnel, which raises about a recurrently held questions for employers pondering a identical movement. Produce these ring any bells?</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;">? Is it unbiased?</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;">? What are other companies doing?</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;">? What must quiet I take advantage of into tale on this protection?</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;">We’ve rounded up 24 international companies’ insurance policies and place aside together <a href="https://qz.com/work/2050089/what-employers-assessing-covid-19-vaccine-mandates-should-know/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=africa-weekly-brief&utm_content=39a56a0c-0725-11ec-8399-4e75844b307b" universal="true" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">some real solutions to all of the above</a>. You’ll must quiet be a member to be taught this one, so <a href="https://qz.com/subscribe/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=africa-weekly-brief&utm_content=39a56a0c-0725-11ec-8399-4e75844b307b" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">subscribe this day</a> to use 40% off (exhaust code <strong>QZEMAIL40</strong>).</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size:0px;padding:20px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <p style="border-top:solid 1px #D3D3D3;font-size:1;margin:0px auto;width:100%;"> <p><!--[if mso | IE]> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-top:solid 1px #D3D3D3;font-size:1;margin:0px auto;width:620px;" role="presentation" width="620px" > <tr> <td style="height:0;line-height:0;"> </td> </tr> </table> <![endif]--></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" class="subheadline" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0 4px;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-weight:bold;line-height:15px;text-align:left;text-transform:uppercase;color:#168dd9;">One gargantuan question</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" class="small-headline" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0 4px;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:bold;line-height:14px;text-align:left;text-transform:uppercase;color:#000000;">Why has Covid-19 had much less of an impression in Africa?</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;">Covid-19 deaths across Africa own elevated since mid-July 2021, nonetheless the impression of the pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa stays markedly decrease when put next to the Americas, Europe, and Asia. A brand unusual paper by a personnel of public effectively being researchers <a href="https://qz.com/africa/2049407/why-has-covid-19-had-less-of-an-impact-in-africa/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=africa-weekly-brief&utm_content=39a56a0c-0725-11ec-8399-4e75844b307b" universal="true" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">examines one of the foremost factors</a> which own been suggested as doubtlessly influencing the low burden of Covid-19 illness, alongside with: </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;"> <ul class="list"> <li aria-level="1">The younger age demographic of sub-Saharan Africa</li> <li aria-level="1">Lack of lengthy-length of time care services and products</li> <li aria-level="1">Likely injurious-security from native circulating coronaviruses</li> <li aria-level="1">Barriers of SARS-CoV-2 testing</li> <li aria-level="1">Effective authorities public effectively being response</li> </ul> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;">The researchers also lay out suggestions for Covid-19 methods in Africa, which purpose to beef up effectively being practices as the continent continues to fight with low vaccination charges.</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size:0px;padding:20px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <p style="border-top:solid 1px #D3D3D3;font-size:1;margin:0px auto;width:100%;"> <p><!--[if mso | IE]> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-top:solid 1px #D3D3D3;font-size:1;margin:0px auto;width:620px;" role="presentation" width="620px" > <tr> <td style="height:0;line-height:0;"> </td> </tr> </table> <![endif]--></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" class="subheadline" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0 4px;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-weight:bold;line-height:15px;text-align:left;text-transform:uppercase;color:#168dd9;">Person of ardour</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" style="font-size:0px;padding:15px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px;"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:620px;"><img decoding="async" alt="David Adjaye and Ashley Shaw-Scott arrive for the Time 100 Gala in New York in 2017." height="auto" src="https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/2017-04-26T120000Z_1850497570_RC148F430EF0_RTRMADP_3_USA-TIME-100-1-e1630060815148.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1280" style="border:0;display:block;outline:none;text-decoration:none;height:auto;width:100%;font-size:13px;" width="620"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:0 0 10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:14px;text-align:left;color:#4c4c4c;">Reuters/Carlo Allegri</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;">David Adjaye, the British-Ghanaian architect simplest identified for designing the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington DC, is now giving a facelift to Ghana’s healthcare gadget. A originate created by the architect’s 21-yr-dilapidated London-based mostly mostly firm will be utilized to dozens of contemporary district hospitals in the country. Alexander Onukwue describes Adjaye’s <a href="https://qz.com/africa/2052071/star-architect-david-adjaye-is-designing-101-hospitals-for-ghana/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=africa-weekly-brief&utm_content=39a56a0c-0725-11ec-8399-4e75844b307b" universal="true" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">imaginative and prescient for the project</a>, his first healthcare commission and most attention-grabbing endeavor but in Africa.</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size:0px;padding:20px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <p style="border-top:solid 1px #D3D3D3;font-size:1;margin:0px auto;width:100%;"> <p><!--[if mso | IE]> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-top:solid 1px #D3D3D3;font-size:1;margin:0px auto;width:620px;" role="presentation" width="620px" > <tr> <td style="height:0;line-height:0;"> </td> </tr> </table> <![endif]--></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" class="subheadline" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0 4px;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-weight:bold;line-height:15px;text-align:left;text-transform:uppercase;color:#168dd9;">Diversified things we loved</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;"><b>Stuck in Covid-19 limbo.</b> In an investigation by VICE, reporter Tom Bowker realized that a Chinese language firm has <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx5kmw/were-being-treated-like-slaves-factory-workers-stuck-in-year-long-lockdown" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">effectively imprisoned over 300 workers in a Mozambique cement manufacturing facility</a>, the exhaust of the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse.</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;"><b>Reclaiming girls’s voices in the media.</b> Despite making up over half of the South African population, girls’s voices are barely heard in the records. Quote This Woman+ is <a href="https://reasonstobecheerful.world/south-african-women-are-reclaiming-their-voices-in-the-media/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">highlighting the expertise of girls and marginalized other folks</a> to journalists and records producers sooner than the upcoming municipal elections, writes Tolu Olasoji in Reasons to be Overjoyed.</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;"><b>The fight to construct a dwelling of music.</b> For a protracted time, Abdellah El Gourd’s Tangier house has been a sacred homestead for the Gnawa musical custom, on the overall drawing in world-renowned jazz performers and eliciting genre crossovers. In the Recent York Times, Aida Alami reports on the likelihood that <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/21/world/africa/morocco-dar-gnawa.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Morocco would possibly presumably presumably well moreover lose regarded as one of its cultural gemstones</a>.</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;"><b>A tussle over fossil gasoline funding. </b>US president Joe Biden promised to re-overview US funding for in a single other country vitality vegetation, pipelines, and other projects that exhaust fossil fuels. It’s a tricky balance in Africa, where <a href="https://qz.com/africa/1980339/bidens-plan-to-eliminate-fossil-fuels-wont-work-in-africa/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=africa-weekly-brief&utm_content=39a56a0c-0725-11ec-8399-4e75844b307b" universal="true" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the money props up polluting industries, nonetheless will be foremost for making improvements to entry to electrical energy</a>. This week, as Climate Residence reports, the administration someway rolled out its unusual principles: This would possibly occasionally moreover nix funds for any coal or oil projects, nonetheless <a href="https://www.climatechangenews.com/2021/08/26/joe-biden-can-seal-breakthrough-deal-end-global-public-finance-fossil-fuels/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">trudge away the door open for pure gasoline</a>.</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;"><b>High hopes for Liberian cocoa. </b>Despite having an ambiance conducive to rising cocoa, Liberia has had a historical past of vegetation of inconsistent quality, which arrangement the country’s farmers are likely to be now not getting as a lot value from their efforts as their Ivorian and Ghanaian counterparts. Lucinda Rouse reports in African Enterprise how replacement markets in Europe and North The united states would possibly presumably presumably well <a href="https://african.business/2021/08/agribusiness-manufacturing/liberia-courts-premium-markets-to-boost-cocoa-earnings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">open unusual doorways for Liberian cocoa to thrive</a>.</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size:0px;padding:20px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <p style="border-top:solid 1px #D3D3D3;font-size:1;margin:0px auto;width:100%;"> <p><!--[if mso | IE]> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-top:solid 1px #D3D3D3;font-size:1;margin:0px auto;width:620px;" role="presentation" width="620px" > <tr> <td style="height:0;line-height:0;"> </td> </tr> </table> <![endif]--></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="font-size:0px;padding:10px 0;word-break:break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, YuGothic, Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN, Hiragino Sans, Meiryo, MS Gothic, sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:27px;text-align:left;color:#000000;">? 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