Christina Golubski

One of the founders of Wash Me Please Mobile Carwash shows how to use their mobile app that can be downloaded from play store to book a carwash appointment.The wash me please is a Kenyan startup company that offers convenient mobile carwash services from the comfort of your home or workplace as a way of helping fight the spread of Covid-19. Wash me please is detailing and Carwash Company which was started in the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. They offer carwash mobile services to clients through a mobile app that clients use to request their service. This service has offered a safe space for women and the elderly who would fear to take their cars at a conventional carwash places that are normally crowed, in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. The service has helped in fighting the spread of the virus by bringing the services to the clients homes and workplace thus saving them time and risk of contracting the covid-19 virus. According to the founders of the Wash me please Carwash Company, using their online app and their electric Tuk Tuk has helped in conserving water since they use less in cleaning cars, reducing noise pollution and carbon footprints emitted by the use of fuel thus offering clean and safe environment when serving clients. (Photo by Boniface Muthoni / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Figure of the week: The rise of African tech startups

Leo Holtz and Christina Golubski

Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Nairobi, Kenya -June 13th 2017: Electric engineers laying down Electric transmission lines in rural Kenya, Africa. This lines transmit high power electricity to different regions countrywide.

Figure of the week: Increasing access to electricity in sub-Saharan Africa

Mary Blankenship and Christina Golubski

Friday, June 18, 2021

A health worker holds a vial of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine, at the Munsieville Care for the Aged Centre outside Johannesburg, South Africa May 17, 2021. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

Africa in the news: COVID-19 vaccine update, Kenya’s High Court ruling, and natural resource update

Christina Golubski, Tamara White, and Leo Holtz

Saturday, May 22, 2021

David Muganyura, 70, examines coffee plants growing on his farm in Honde Valley, Zimbabwe, June 27, 2019. Picture taken June 27, 2019. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo

Figure of the week: Climate change and African agriculture

Leo Holtz and Christina Golubski

Thursday, May 20, 2021

Rhinos in Nairobi National Park, Kenya

Africa in the news: Wildlife, Horn of Africa, and infrastructure updates

Christina Golubski, Leo Holtz, and Tamara White

Saturday, May 15, 2021

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan and Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta attand a joint statement at State House, in Nairobi, Kenya, May 4, 2021. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Africa in the news: Somalia, Sudan, and Tanzania updates

Christina Golubski, Tamara White, and Leo Holtz

Saturday, May 8, 2021

A engineer walks past the solar panels at the Benadir Electricity Company (BECO) solar project in Mogadishu, Somalia May 21, 2020. Picture taken May 21, 2020. REUTERS/Feisal Omar

Figures of the week: Africa’s renewable energy potential

Leo Holtz and Christina Golubski

Wednesday, May 5, 2021

World leaders appear on a video screen during a virtual Climate Summit with world leaders in the East Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 23, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

Africa in the news: Mozambique, Chad, and climate change updates

Leo Holtz, Tamara White, and Christina Golubski

Saturday, May 1, 2021

File photo - Chad, Ennedi, Amdjarass, arrival of President Idriss Deby with his wife in his native village and official welcome at the airport. Chads President Idriss Deby has died while visiting troops on the front line of a fight against northern rebels, an army spokesman said on Tuesday, the day after Deby was declared the winner of a sixth term in office. Deby's campaign said on Monday that he was headed to the front lines to join troops battling "terrorists". Photo by Pascal Avenet/ABACAPRESS.COM

Africa in the news: President Déby of Chad dies; Kenya, DRC sign trade and security deals; and Cape Town survives massive fire

Tamara White, Leo Holtz, and Christina Golubski

Saturday, April 24, 2021

Globe focused on Africa

Figures of the week: Venture capital trends in Africa

Leo Holtz and Christina Golubski

Wednesday, April 21, 2021