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A few years ago, the decision to buy a budget smartphone was simple. If a phone was cheap, you already knew what you were giving up: smooth performance, durability, long-term usability, sometimes all three. Budget phones were stopgaps, not devices you expected to rely on every day. That assumption doesn’t quite hold anymore. I noticed this shift the first time I spent a full day with a Tecno Pop 10. Scrolling felt unusually smooth. The phone didn’t lag when switching between apps. It survived light rain without panic. And by the end of the day, the battery still had enough…

Every workshop has its headliners — the circular saw that rips through plywood, the drill that lives on the pegboard, the sander that gets pulled out for every furniture project. I’ve been adding to my Ryobi ONE+ collection for years now, and somewhere along the way I noticed something. The tools I grab most often aren’t the big names. They’re the ones that handle the annoying stuff, the cleanup, the tasks that used to eat up half my afternoon before I even started the real work. You won’t find these six on most “must-have” lists, which honestly surprises me. They…

Philipp Mueller, CEO of Blue Earth Capital** For the best experience, download the free Africa Private Equity News app Android | iOS **Blue Earth Capital has secured more than $100 million for the first close of its dedicated impact secondaries strategy. The specialist impact investor attracted backing from US and European institutions, including Proparco, the French development finance institution, the Ursimone Wietlisbach Foundation and Germany’s Stella.The strategy will invest globally across developed and emerging markets, targeting sectors such as climate action, circular economy, financial inclusion, healthcare, and education.Nicolas Muller, head of private equity partnerships at Blue Earth Capital, said: “Blue…

Mezuo Nwuneli, managing partner of Sahel Capital** For the best experience, download the free Africa Private Equity News app Android | iOS **Sahel Capital reached the first close of its successor growth equity fund, Sahel Capital Agribusiness Fund II (SCAF II), with $29 million in commitments.The first close was anchored by KfW Development Bank, alongside a US-based family office. SCAF II is targeting a final close of $75 million over the next 12 months.SCAF II is a successor fund to the Fund for Agricultural Finance in Nigeria (FAFIN) and is structured as a blended finance vehicle, including a first loss…

Rohan Shah Interview with Rohan ShanFOUNDER, UMWERO TERROIR SPIRITS Lives in: Kigali, Rwanda Rohan Shah trained as a development economist at Harvard University, but his weekends were defined by a different pursuit: bartending. After obtaining his degree, he worked with small-scale farmers in Africa and India for a non-profit organisation. However, when Covid-19 struck, he was forced to move back to Singapore and operate remotely. This allowed him to moonlight at a local Singapore bar called Native, a venue that greatly inspired Shah with its focus on Southeast Asian spirits and ingredients. This experience influenced Shah to combine his background…

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Massive Coinbase News! Bitcoin Rips to $96,750! Football.Fun TGE Interview with Founder!Crypto majors are very green with Bitcoin making a new another 2-month high; BTC +2% at $96,7500; ETH +2% at $3,360, SOL even at $145; XRP -1% to $2.11. DCR (+30%), DASH (+10%), ICP (+10%) and ZEC (+7%) led top movers; XMR hit another new ATH at $800 before retracing to $725. Coinbase pulled support for the Senate’s crypto market structure bill ahead of a key vote, citing major concerns with the latest draft, leading to the Senate delaying the bill. Zcash avoided SEC action after the Zcash Foundation…

In 2026, visibility has become a performance metric. Executives, founders, and high-growth brands are now expected not only to build and operate, but to communicate, influence, and lead their markets through narrative. Perception shapes opportunity. Credibility determines access. Authority drives demand. Laerryblue Media, the leading pan-African public relations, reputation management, and marketing company, operates at this intersection of performance and perception. The firm enables market-facing leaders and organisations to take control of their story, shape public interpretation, and build reputational capital that compounds over time. In this new reality, visibility functions as strategic positioning, brand governance, and long-term value creation…

You may be familiar with the most common HTML tags like p, a, and img, but what about progress or details? HTML is a lot more expressive than you might have realized, and the following tags pack plenty of functionality. Find out what you can use each of these hidden gems for, and why they’re so useful. HTML has supported multimedia elements—images, video, audio—for many decades, but the latter two required browser plugins like Adobe’s Flash to work. Thankfully, HTML5 brought native audio and video elements to the web, and implementations have been improving ever since. Today’s audio element is…

President Yoweri Museveni was declared the winner of Uganda’s election on Saturday, granting Africa’s longest-serving leader a seventh term in office. African observers have denounced “reports of intimidation, arrest and abductions” targeting the opposition that they say undermined the polls’ credibility. Museveni won 71.65 percent of votes in Thursday’s presidential election, according to official results. His closest challenger, former entertainer Bobi Wine, took 24.72 percent. Wine said earlier on Saturday that he was in hiding after security forces raided his home and placed his family under house arrest. The police deny seeking to detain him. The election took place amid…