Bill Gates - The African Mirror

Sep

2023

Billionaire-backed KoBold Metals plans new Zambian copper mine within a decade

CALIFORNIA-based KoBold Metals, whose backers include billionaires Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, said it aims to start producing copper and cobalt at a project in Zambia within 10 years. KoBold is spending about $150 million to accelerate its search for more deposits at the Mingomba project, located along the fabled African copper belt. The additional studies will be completed in 2024, said Mfikeyi Makayi, the Zambian CEO of the Silicon Valley start-up. "It's a very attractive project and we have said within a decade we would want Mingomba to be a producing mine," Makayi told Reuters. Bill Gates. Photo: Jean-Luc David/Flickr…

May

2021

By The African Mirror

Melinda’s long journey away from Bill’s shadow

WORLD

ALEXANDRA ULMER When Melinda French Gates asked her husband, Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates, to let her co-author the 2013 annual letter about their foundation, the conversation blew up into a fight. "It got hot," Melinda wrote in her 2019 book, "The Moment of Lift." "Bill said the process we had for the Annual Letter had been working well for the foundation for years, and he didn't see why it should change." Ultimately, Bill agreed for her to write a separate piece about contraceptives, while he penned the main letter about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's work. In the…

Mar

2021

By The African Mirror

World should be back to normal by end of 2022 – Bill Gates

WORLD

THE world should be back to normal by the end of 2022 thanks to COVID-19 vaccines, Bill Gates said in an interview for Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza and television broadcaster TVN24. "This is an incredible tragedy," the Microsoft co-founder said on the pandemic, adding that the only good news was the access to vaccines. "By the end of 2022 we should be basically completely back to normal," Gates said. Gates, a billionaire who stepped down as chairman of Microsoft Corp in 2014, has through his philanthropic Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation committed at least $1.75 billion to the global response…

Jan

2021

By The African Mirror

‘Crazy and evil’: Bill Gates surprised by pandemic conspiracies

WORLD

KATE KELLAND MICROSOFT co-founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates says he has been taken aback by the volume of "crazy" and "evil" conspiracy theories about him spreading on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic, but said he would like to explore what is behind them. In an interview with Reuters, Gates said the millions of online posts and "crazy conspiracy theories" about him and about top U.S. infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci had likely taken hold in part because of the combination of a frightening viral pandemic and the rise of social media. "Nobody would have predicted that I and Dr.…

Sep

2020

By The African Mirror

Pandemic makes tackling global woes more critical than ever – Bill Gates

COVID-19

ELLEN WULFHORST THE coronavirus pandemic has wiped out progress on lofty goals such as ending world poverty and hunger in the next decade, but the economic damage of COVID-19 shows how badly such global development is needed, philanthropist Bill Gates said. Across the world, the virus has deepened social and economic inequality in areas like education, pay and health care access, Gates said in remarks accompanying Monday's release of a global development report by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The report outlines ways in which COVID-19 has wreaked economic damage and derailed progress on many of the global development…