Yonas Desta ✔ Bronze

Fuel queues are back in Takoradi. Stations closed by 6pm, black market selling at triple the pump price. #FuelCrisis

That match deserved a better pitch. Talent is not our problem, facilities are. #AfricanFootball

The donation money bought two vehicles. Not one borehole was drilled.

Staff salaries were 'delayed' for three months while management flew business class.

Startups in Kisumu are raising less this year but building more. Quietly the best sign I have seen. #AfricanTech

Internet was throttled across parts of Addis Ababa during yesterday's protest. Nobody will confirm it officially. #DigitalRights

The informal sector employs most of us and is taxed like an afterthought. #SmallBusiness

Local devs building for local problems will beat imported solutions every time. #BuildInAfrica

Startups in Dar es Salaam are raising less this year but building more. Quietly the best sign I have seen. #AfricanTech

Diaspora sending money home every month and still being asked why they have not built a house yet. #Diaspora

Import duties changed overnight. Traders in Alexandria lost thousands on goods already shipped. #Trade

Built a whole fintech MVP on a laptop with 4GB RAM in Dakar. Constraints make you sharper. #AfricanTech

Local languages are trending online again and I am here for it. #Language

Fibre finally reached my street in Mombasa. Ten years after they announced it. #Connectivity

Afrobeats is everywhere but the producers back home still get paid last. #Afrobeats