CUSTOMERS can now pay with their preferred mobile wallet at Shoprite stores across Zambia, giving them more choice at checkout and a simple, convenient way to complete their purchases. Mobile money adoption continues to surge in Zambia as consumers increasingly move from traditional payment methods to digital transactions. The number of active mobile money wallet payments nearly doubled to 17 million between 2020 and 2025, while transaction values increased by 743%. More than three-quarters of Zambian adults now use mobile money, up from 58% in 2020. In response to this shift, Airtel Money, MoMo from MTN and Zamtel Money are now accepted as payment methods in Shoprite stores for everything from weekly groceries to Shoprite Money Market services, including airtime, data, electricity purchases, and gift cards. “As the way customers transact continues to evolve, we want to ensure they have access to secure and convenient payment options that meet their...

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KAMPALA – Ugandans have been put on high alert after the Ministry of Water and Environment issued an early warning over a looming 2026/2027 El Niño weather event, cautioning that the country could face above-normal rainfall, devastating floods, deadly landslides, disease outbreaks and widespread disruption of livelihoods in the coming months. In a weather advisory dated July 30, 2026, the Ministry, through the Department of Meteorological Services (DMS), warned that global climate monitoring centres and the World Meteorological Organization have detected an increased likelihood of an El Niño event developing during the second half of 2026, with the possibility of persisting into 2027. If the forecasts hold, Uganda could once again witness scenes of overflowing rivers, submerged roads, collapsing hillsides, destroyed homes and thousands of displaced families as heavy rains pound many parts of the country. According to the advisory, El Niño is a naturally occurring climate phenomenon caused by...

Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 August 2026: The language of obedience can turn unlawful power into routine administration. The obstruction of the Sierra Leone Bar Association’s annual meeting by the police, offers a revealing contemporary example. Corruption in Sierra Leone is often discussed in terms of theft, bribery, patronage, weak enforcement, rent-seeking, and abuse of public office. These explanations remain necessary. They identify many of the visible forms corruption takes: stolen money, manipulated files, inflated contracts, selective prosecutions, political arrests, captured institutions, and the private use of public power. But they do not fully capture the deeper moral and institutional mechanisms by which corruption survives, mutates, and becomes culture. Beneath the stolen resources and distorted procedures lies a more dangerous surrender: the displacement of responsibility onto authority. This is the world created by the phrase “orders from above.” The phrase itself carries a revealing tension. “Order” means both...

São-Tomé, 04 Ags 2026 ( STP-Press ) –  O governo iniciou pagamento de salário de mês de julho aos funcionários públicos, incluindo o subsidio de férias correspondente a 100% do salario base, – anunciou o ministro do Estado, da Economia e Finanças, sexta-feira numa entrevista a RSTP. Gareth Guadalupe anunciou que o pagamento será feito de forma faseada, começando pelos ministérios e instituições com menor número de funcionários, incluindo a Comunicação Social deixando os maiores para o mês de setembro, sendo que o Ministério da Educação receberá o subsídio em agosto. O ministro assegurou também que o salário de julho começará a ser pago hoje, (sexta-feira, dia 31), evitando o atraso registado no mês passado. Fim/RN     Source link

Le Chef du groupement Touareg Kel-Gress d’Azarori nomade, l’honorable Boudal Baloji, s’est éteint le samedi, 1er août 2026 à son domicile, des suites d’une longue maladie, à l’âge de 105 ans. Avec sa disparition, c’est une grande page de l’histoire de l’Ader et de la chefferie traditionnelle nigérienne qui se tourne. Gardien des valeurs ancestrales, défenseur infatigable du patrimoine culturel Touareg et homme de conviction, il laisse le souvenir d’un dirigeant dont la sagesse, l’humilité et le courage ont marqué plusieurs générations. Les obsèques ont rassemblé une foule considérable venue lui rendre un dernier hommage. Dix-sept Chefs Traditionnels y ont pris part, parmi lesquels le Sultan de l’Aïr, Président de l’Association des Chefs Traditionnels du Niger, Son Altesse Ibrahim Oumarou Ibrahim, les Chefs de Canton d’Illéla, Elhadji Yacouba Habibou Oumani, de Tamaské Elhadji Abdoul Kader Cheffou Touba, de Doguéraoua, Elhadji Alka Kadri Attawel, ainsi que les Chefs de Groupements de...