Curated by Lionnel Yamentou
Shareholding follows investment of US$50 million in AFC’s equity by AfDB AfDB becomes the second investment-grade Supranational Finance Institution to join the membership of and invest in AFC. LAGOS, Nigeria, November 13th, 2019,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Africa Finance Corporation (“AFC”, or “the…
DHL Global Forwarding, the leading international provider of air, sea and road freight services, has consolidated its portfolio of humanitarian logistics services within its first Global Competence Center for Humanitarian Logistics, designed to meet growing global demand for these logistics services. The…
The U.S. Agency for International Development, Land O’Lakes International Development, and the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research announced the six winners of the Feed the Future Fall Armyworm Tech Prize at the AfricaCom conference in South Africa today. The prize, launched…
At AfricaCom, Orange presents its latest innovations to democratise access to smartphones, encourage e-education and support the startup ecosystem In the field of telephony as in many others, Africa has jumped a technological step by moving directly to mobile. The outlook of…
On Monday, Nov. 12, a groundbreaking report will be released with compelling new data on contraception and broader family planning progress in the world’s 69 lowest-income countries. The annual progress report entitled FP2020: Catalyzing Collaboration has been produced by Family Planning 2020…
The World Health Organization (WHO) in the African Region has launched the first WHO Africa Innovation Challenge calling for health innovations with the potential for having significant social impact and addressing the unmet health needs on the continent. “This Innovation Challenge recognizes…
Infinite Foods introduced a game-changer in the innovative and exciting plant-based protein market by launching the Beyond Burger on Thursday, 11 October, in Johannesburg. The Beyond Burger is the flagship product of Beyond Meat, one of the rapidly growing companies taking a…
We often read about the number of jobs that our youth are going to be doing in 10 or 15 years that don’t even exist yet. The conventional wisdom is that we can prepare them for this “unknown future” by giving them…
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, 29 October 2018 -/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Newly launched advocacy organisation Part Worn Africa is calling for governments and regulatory bodies across the African continent to develop and enforce stronger regulations governing the sale of part-worn and second-hand…
If people are company’s greatest asset, how do you support growth and create a high-performance culture without full visibility of employee’s strengths and capabilities? Kenya’s leading multi-media houses, are mainly reliant on manual processes, paper-based processes and poor visibility over individual staff…
19 year old Ghanaian, Gabriel Opare has created a video search engine that can search and stream from multiple destinations on the internet in one place. The search engine called Mudclo is as I can confidently say a preamble of the ingenuity…
LONDON, United-Kingdom, May 12, 2015 Global research consultancy TNS has today announced an exclusive and wide-reaching strategic partnership with GeoPoll (http://www.geopoll.com), the world’s largest mobile survey platform. Under the multi-year agreement, TNS and sister company, Kantar Media, will join forces with GeoPoll…
ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, May 11, 2015/ — JUMIA Côte d’Ivoire (https://www.jumia.ci) undertook the relocation of its Treichville warehouse to a brand new, twice as large storage facility warehouse, in the industrial zone of Koumassi; a suburb of Abidjan. Operations at the new…
Aviation in Africa currently supports more than 6.9 million jobs and over $800 billion in GDP across African nations. But this is nothing compared with what it can become. Annually, a further 155,000 jobs and $1.3 billion in GDP can be added…
Airtel Ghana has announced that the number of registered customers using Airtel Money has crossed the 1.5 million mark. This number is about half the population of Accra and the highest adoption rate by the subscribers of any mobile money service on…