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Although smartphones these days replace all other electronic devices, a tablet sometimes might prove to be irreplaceable. It’s used for work, school or entertainment and in order to fulfil its purpose well, it should be chosen in a thoughtful way. Do you want to know how to pick the right tablet that will be easy to use and have all the necessary features? Keep...

Have you bought a new smartphone? Don't hurry to throw the old one away! Here are the six ways to get the most from this gadget. A Backup Phone A phone always comes in handy as a backup for your contacts or important messages. You can take it with you on trips during which you will worry about a newer and better model. Another advantage of such...

Teachers to build more accessible coffins for the population When covid-19 forced schools to close in Uganda, Livingstone Musaala gave up his job as a math teacher to devote himself to building affordable caskets – at a time when many people were dying from covid-19 , in the region where he lives. The choice was criticized, even from his own family, who accused him of taking...

Spanish police today announced the arrests in Barcelona and Madrid of five alleged jihadists, including the alleged leader who recruited the others from a group of young criminals, as they sought to buy a Kalashnikov machine gun. In a statement, it is stated that the operation was carried out by the General Information Commission of the National Police and the Provincial Information Brigade of Barcelona,...

East Coast Boxing Club. The East Coast Boxing Club takes young fighters off the street and gives them a home to box. Now, the gym is going through serious difficulties due to covid-19. In Kampala, the capital of Uganda, is the East Coast Boxing Club, a gym that served as launch pad for the Olympic Games. This boxing gym took poor young people off...

Dubai, New York, London or Shanghai are some of the cities known for their grandiose buildings. However, the next big building in height will be developed in Zanzibar. Zanzibar is world renowned for its natural heritage, but it will now house a renowned work of architecture. The small island, which lies off the coast of Tanzania, will have a domino shaped tower which...

A new report shows that the famous brands of "fast fashion" they are helping to fuel pollution that, for example, has tinged African rivers blue or made their waters as alkaline as bleach. According to the newspaper The Independent, the latest report by Water Witness International (WWI) gives as an example the polluted rivers from Lesotho and Tanzania to highlight the risks associated with the...

Since the 1970s, gender-based abortions in China, India and ten other nations have prevented 23 to 45 million women from being born. A new study predicts that these countries will lose another 4.7 million by 2030. In a new study, published in BMJ Global Health and quoted by Science Alert, the researchers used a model based on 3.26 billion records from 204 countries, having...

Matshidiso Moeti, director for Africa at the World Health Organization (WHO), announced that Africa had “the worst week since the start of the pandemic”, with a 20% increase in cases. The situation will get worse with the third wave. In the week ending July 4th, "we had 251,000 new cases, an increase of 20% compared to the previous week and 12% compared to the...

UK Secretary of State for Transport, Grant Shapps British Transport Minister Grant Shapps warned this Friday of the "risk of things changing" and destinations such as Madeira being demoted from the "green list" to the "yellow list" of British international travel. The British government announced on Thursday that Madeira, Malta, the Spanish and Caribbean Balearic Islands, including Barbados, and other British Overseas Territories will be...