Christina Golubski

A conversation on Africa’s debt

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM EST

KAMPALA, UGANDA - JANUARY 05, 2020: A front view of Kampala Boulevard Suites, leading shopping mall and hotel with a foreground of an African man in a minibus, popular transportation for locals.

Figure of the week: A case study comparison of industries without smokestacks in South Africa and Uganda

Mary Blankenship and Christina Golubski

Friday, August 27, 2021

Workers air purple tea leaves named TRFK 306/1, a clone by the Tea Research Foundation of Kenya, at the Gatanga industries limited in Gatura settlement of Muranga county, Kenya January 30, 2021. Picture taken January 30, 2021. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

Figure of the week: Potential for youth and female employment in industries without smokestacks

Mary Blankenship and Christina Golubski

Friday, August 20, 2021

Lagos based entreprenuer Ogechi Egemonu opens the Twitter app on a smart phone at her office in Lagos, Nigeria June 10, 2021. Picture taken June 10, 2021. REUTERS/Seun Sanni

Nigeria’s Twitter ban is a misplaced priority

Mary Blankenship and Christina Golubski

Wednesday, August 11, 2021

A boy collects water from a shallow well on the Kenyan side of Moyale, June 11, 2009. Prolonged drought, lack of water and limited pasture have led to conflict between the Somali and Borena ethnic groups in southern Ethiopia ? that left hundreds of people dead in February this year. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) says it needs some 100 million Swiss francs to prevent conflict, famine and epidemics as well as restore the livelihoods of 2.5 million people in the Horn of Africa. Picture taken June 11, 2009. REUTERS/Irada Humbatova (KENYA SOCIETY CONFLICT HEALTH)

Addressing Africa’s extreme water insecurity

Leo Holtz and Christina Golubski

Friday, July 23, 2021

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

Roundtable on the replenishment of the IDA-20

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

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