Simon Ejembi

AFRICA SUMMITS AT A GLANCE Media Revenue | Newsroom & Tech | Audience Development Africa as a continent has one of the world’s youngest populations, inclined towards heavy use of digital and mobile. Internet advertising via use of social platforms has seen exponential growth, posing a challenge to traditional media advertising.

Brazil team doctor Rodrigo Lasmar said on Tuesday that Neymar’s recovery from foot surgery “is going well”, as the star forward bids to be fit for the World Cup in Russia. Lasmar, who operated on Neymar on March 3, said he speaks “two or three time a day” with the physiotherapists working with the Brazil and Paris Saint-Germain player. “For now, everything is going well, they tell me every detail of Neymar’s recovery,” Lasmar told French sports daily L’Equipe.

The producers of the hit Netflix royal saga “The Crown” apologised Tuesday over the firestorm that erupted after it emerged that Claire Foy was paid less than co-star Matt Smith. But the statement stopped short of admitting that Foy had been treated unfairly, or of offering to redress the balance with a retrospective bonus for the actress, who played Queen Elizabeth II in the British royal saga.