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Vanguard News Nigerian Hausa songs win streaming service On Kindly Share This Story: Kenyan musician Nviiri Sande plays his guitar in his studio, during a Reuters interview in Nairobi, Kenya February 12, 2021. REUTERS/Edwin Waita When Danish national Martin Nielsen moved to Kenya to work with a venture capital firm, he quickly switched gears after spotting an opportunity in streaming music and selling downloads. Fast forward eight years and the Kenya-based company he co-founded and now leads, Mdundo, is listed on the Danish stock market and is posting rapid growth in users in the African mar...

3 Min Read NAIROBI (Reuters) - When Danish national Martin Nielsen moved to Kenya to work with a venture capital firm, he quickly switched gears after spotting an opportunity in streaming music and selling downloads. Kenyan musician Nviiri Sande plays his guitar in his studio, during a Reuters interview in Nairobi, Kenya February 12, 2021. REUTERS/Edwin Waita Fast forward eight years and the Kenya-based company he co-founded and now leads, Mdundo, is listed on the Danish stock market and is posting rapid growth in users in the African markets it serves. Africa has been attracting internation...

3 Min Read NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan doctors on Wednesday decried the death of a 28-year-old physician from COVID-19 as the latest example of dangerous and unjust working conditions in government hospitals. Slideshow ( 5 images ) Stephen Mogusu was employed on a temporary contract and was never paid for the five months he worked in a COVID-19 ward at a public hospital in the town of Machakos, doctors who knew him told Reuters. Mogusu told Kenya’s Nation newspaper after falling ill that he could not afford diapers for his 5-month old daughter. Now his body is lying in the hospital morgue in...

2 Min Read CHEJU, Zanzibar (Reuters) - Scientists seeking a breakthrough in the fight against malaria have used drones to spray rice fields in Zanzibar - not with traditional pesticides but with a thin, non-toxic film. The fields are typical breeding grounds for the anopheles mosquito - the type that transmits malaria, which the United Nations says kills a young child every minute and causes 75 percent of all under five deaths. Ninety percent of all cases occur in Sub-Saharan Africa, according to the World Health Organization. The researchers, led by Bart Knols from Radboud University in The ...