Standard Chartered Bank launches its first-digital bank in Africa

Standard Chartered Bank on Wednesday launched its first digital-only retail bank in Africa at a ceremony held in Côte d’Ivoire. Sporting legend and Ivorian icon, Didier Drogba, was named the bank’s ‘Digital Bank Ambassador’.

Standard Chartered is using Côte d’Ivoire as a launchpad of its global digital services.

It reckons the digital bank aims to ‘bridge the gap between traditional banking and the new, digitally savvy generation in Côte d’Ivoire, aiming to make banking services simple, more accessible and convenient”.

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I Never Thought Mnangagwa Would Turn Against Me – Mugabe

Zimbabwe’s former leader Robert Mugabe said he never thought new President Emmerson Mnangagwa would turn against him and denounced Mnangagwa’s move to oust him last year as a coup, in an interview broadcast on Thursday.

“I never thought he whom I had nurtured and brought into government and whose life I worked so hard in prison to save as he was threatened with hanging, that one day he would be the man who would turn against me,” Mugabe said in the interview with South African state broadcaster SABC from Harare.

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Rwanda has banned mosques in the capital, Kigali, from using loudspeakers during the call to prayer.

They say the calls, made five times a day, have been disturbing residents of the Nyarugenge district, home to the capital’s biggest mosques.

But an official from a Muslim association criticized it, saying they could instead keep the volume down.

Some 1,500 churches have been closed for not complying with building regulations and noise pollution.

The majority of Rwandans are Christian. Muslims make up around 5% of the population.

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