![Digitizing financial services key to Africa’s post-pandemic growth, experts say]()
by Jack Kelly | May 8, 2020 | Coronavirus, Featured
The COVID-19 pandemic highlights Africa’s need to digitize, especially in the financial services sector, to protect the continent’s primarily cash-based societies from the spread of the disease, leaders from public and private African institutions said...
by Jack Kelly | May 7, 2020 | Coronavirus, Featured
The head of the World Economic Forum’s Latin America team warned Wednesday that the COVID-19 pandemic could devastate the region’s economy if governments fail to act, but leaders from key industries are envisioning strong post-pandemic recoveries. Marisol...
by Khadija Islow | May 5, 2020 | Coronavirus, Featured
Americans can expect the U.S. House of Representatives to hold special oversight hearings to examine the increase in scam robocalls offering help related to the coronavirus outbreak and what further action can be taken against the scammers, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers...
by Khadija Islow | Apr 22, 2020 | Coronavirus, Featured
Major tech companies in the United States have announced efforts to create contact tracing tools to help slow the spread of the coronavirus, but experts say that contact tracing should only be used as a supplement to fight COVID-19 because of limitations of the...
by Jack Kelly | Apr 20, 2020 | Coronavirus, Economy, Featured
Not much has changed yet at Hinchley’s Dairy Farm in Cambridge. The sound of farm machinery still echoes through the metal and concrete walls of the barn where 240 cows are milked mechanically each day. Three new calves were recently born hours apart. Soon it...
![‘You can’t address health inequities if you don’t understand them:’ Experts grapple with race and public health amid pandemic]()
by Jack Kelly | Apr 20, 2020 | Coronavirus, Featured
As the coronavirus-induced national emergency stretches into its second month, uncertainty looms over the United States. But in this era of unknowns, there are some somber certainties. Among them is the fact that African-American communities across the country will be...
