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As world powers tussle to influence politics and elections in Africa, they have taken to social media, targeting African users with misleadi...

Indians are hoping there’s more than one silver lining to the Covid-19 vaccine developments in the country.Google search queries over the pa...

Netflix says it has appointed Zimbabwean telecoms billionaire Strive Masiyiwa to its board.Masiyiwa is the founder of Econet Group which has...

Ugandan authorities are doubling down efforts to crack down on dissent ahead of the country’s Jan.14 polls.In the latest incident, the Kampa...

On a grim year marked by a record number of video meetings, the idea of a drawn-out virtual office party can feel like a gift no one wants....

Vaccinations have begun at last. Now come the questions, with one big issue hanging over companies: Should they make Covid-19 vaccines manda...

With front-line health workers and nursing home residents and staff expected to get the initial doses of Covid-19 vaccines, the thornier que...

Paris city hall will pay €90,000 ($110,000) for not respecting gender quotas in 2018—but unusually this time, it’s because it put too many w...

The initial rollout of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine has begun, and vaccines are shipping across the US. Demand for Covid-19 vaccines will outp...

When authoritarians speak, pay close attention.Words, beyond their basic function of communication, signal intent and outline ways of thinki...

In 1962, US president John F. Kennedy set a course for the moon, initiating the grandest master plan in modern American history. Not that JF...

With storefronts largely empty of customers for the last 10 months, some fear a commercial real estate apocalypse is upon us. But one sector...

Finding opportunity amid the coronavirus outbreak has been easier said than done for most—but for Indian juggernaut Reliance Industries (RIL...

The Covid-19 pandemic has given a booster shot to digital transactions in India, but cash is still the king.After breaching the 2-billion ma...

Jo Karabasz knew her dialysis clinic well. Before switching to at-home treatment this summer, the former high school English teacher spent...

A recent US Bureau of Labor Statistics survey on how businesses fared from the start of the pandemic through Sept. 30 provides new context o...

In its bid to conquer every aspect of shopping, including where we buy our clothes, Amazon today launched a new program called “Made for You...

Creating vaccines, experts were careful to remind us at the beginning of the pandemic, takes time.It took two decades for researchers to dev...

South Africa, which is often identified as Africa’s worst polluter, saw a 1.5% increase in carbon emissions last year, says a  study publish...

Over eight months ago, with haste and necessity, workers and organizations across the globe were thrown into “the great remote work experime...

In a conference I attended in 2013, a renowned, Western-educated, Korean scholar of migration, stubbornly argued that Africans were taking u...

On Dec. 14, the first Americans received a Covid-19 vaccine, part of an initial group of healthcare workers and residents of long-term care...

???? The Big IdeaEmployee activists are transforming the workplace—and making companies better in the process. Here’s the TLDR to our guide...

For much of the time that software has been “eating the world,” new and established firms alike have been focused on technological solutions...

You know the stock market has gone bonkers when even CEOs are baffled by their companies’ soaring share prices.First it was Tesla founder El...