Africa at CES (Jan. 9-12). The largest consumer electronics trade show will take place in Las Vegas, Nevada drawing nearly 200,000 people. The Africa Tech Now event at CES will promote African entrepreneurship and digital innovation at the conference. You can follow Quartz’s continuous coverage of the event or subscribe to a special edition of the Quartz Daily Brief about CES.
South Africa’s ANC to decide on Zuma’s fate (Jan. 10). The African National Congress’s executive committee will meet to discuss the implications of the constitutional court’s ruling that parliament failed to hold president Jacob Zuma accountable over corruption allegations.
African Nations Championship, CHAN 2018 (Jan. 12-Feb. 4). Morocco will host the biennial national soccer tournament for local league players with participation from 16 African countries.
Other Things We Liked
What I saw in Dadaab in Trump’s first year in power. President Donald Trump’s decision to suspend refugee admissions in 2017 radically affected the refugees living in one of the world’s largest refugee camps in northern Kenya. Kevin Sieff of the Washington Post spent the year documenting the hopes and heartaches of the camp’s residents.
Why Moroccans are turning to social media for news. Even though Morocco reformed its speech and press laws last year, threats of arrest and intimidation have stifled robust coverage of the government and citizen protests. In Christian Science Monitor, Jackie Spinner reports how this censorship is pushing news-hungry Moroccans to Facebook.
Here’s one verdict on Liberia’s big school experiment, a year later. With a weak education system, Liberia’s government decided over a year ago to transfer the management of almost 100 schools to eight private operators as a part of a reform experiment. Former UK schools minister David Laws, who has been advising Liberia on the project, explains in the BBC both the positives and negatives of the evaluation results.
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