Ebola is still in much of the headlines this week, and the situation in Liberia is still very much depressing. The quarantines have only served to increase the fear among the local residents. Still, South Africa moved to ban entry of persons from the three most affected countries; Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. This comes even as WHO warns that blanket ban of flights from affected countries may in fact worsen the situation, rather than curb it. Even as the affected West African Ebola patients continue to face dire straits, two Americans, Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, were discharged from the Emory University medical hospital, having recovered from the disease after taking on experimental drugs.
Still, within the same week, two Ghanaians, Robert Lamptey and Badu Boahen, founders of a mobile based firm, Saya, were lucky as their firm was acquired by a US firm, Kirusa, for an undisclosed amount. Kirusa will acquire Saya's intellectual property, technology, and workforce. Perhaps, more African start-ups will be acquired and thrive, and move the African tech scene from one of hype to one of real commercial success.
Even then, the picture is not so rosy when it comes to poaching of elephants in Africa. According to the proceedings of the national academy of sciences, the number of elephants being poached in the continent is
