Islamic Finance Executive Program To Be Held In Jeddah
The fifth International Executive Program in Islamic Finance is to be organized jointly by the Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI), Saudi-Spanish Center for Islamic Economics and Finance (SCIEF), IE Business School, Madrid, and the Islamic Economics Institute of King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah. The 4-day program, scheduled to be held in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi […]
Yale Visit To Ethiopia Focuses On Supporting Women Leaders
This month Pericles Lewis, Yale University’s Vice President for Global Strategy and Deputy Provost for International Affairs visits Ethiopia. During his visit, Lewis provided welcoming remarks at a Leadership Forum for Strategic Impact event. The forum – supported by La Fundación Mujeres por África (the Women for Africa Foundation) and Banco Santander – aims to amplify the […]
Yale GHLI Alumna Leads Efforts For More Equitable Health Care In Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s Minister of Health Dr. Amir Aman Hagos was so impressed with Dr. Lia Tadesse’s commitment to improving the country’s health care delivery system that he named her the newest state minister of health. Tadesse is one of the first graduates of the Yale Global Health Leadership Initiative’s (GHLI) Master’s in Hospital and Health Administration […]
Beyond Boundaries: The Impact Of Free Trade And Technology On Africa’s Accelerating Economic Development
By Pedro Guerreiro, Managing Director: Central Africa at SAP Africa When the Africa Continental Free Trade Area is implemented this year, it will create a single market for goods and services for the first time in the continent’s history. The agreement will cover a geographic area with a combined GDP of $3.2-trillion and a population […]
Yale Vice President Visits Uganda
Meets with Numerous Makerere University (MUYU) Faculty, Students & Trainees This month Pericles Lewis, Yale University’s Vice President for Global Strategy and Deputy Provost for International Affairs, visits Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda to meet with leadership, alumni, and medical residents. Yale and Makerere University have a long, rich partnership that dates back nearly two decades. […]
Leading Payments Processor Boosted By Strategic Global Investment From FSS
Ecentric Payment Systems, a payments company in South Africa, announced today that FSS (Financial Software and Systems), a global digital payment and financial technology company, has made a strategic investment in the company to accelerate growth momentum into Africa. FSS has acquired a 46% stake in Ecentric through a combination of primary and secondary investment, […]
World AI Show Set To Disrupt The African Market This Year With Nairobi
The show is debuting in Kenya this March to help bring about the AI-ML revolution in the continent. Trescon’s World AI Show will be taking place in Kenya this year from 21st – 22nd of March 2019, at the Villa Rosa Kempinski in Nairobi. After a successful edition in Mauritius in 2018, the World AI […]
AI Ventures Into Wildlife
Artificial Intelligence (AI) when combined with any existing form of technology, amplifies the entire experience and performance of the same. Keeping this in mind, scientists are integrating AI in various industries. With its widespread use in almost every arena today, it has also trickled its way into a sector that can help revolutionise the ecosystem […]
Cloud-Based Platform Provides Access To The Largest Database On African Consumers
Fraym has built the largest database on African populations. And now, the company is launching a new platform that makes harnessing the power of their local-level data even easier. dataFraym is a tool that, for the first time, makes data accessible and actionable for markets across the continent. As an enterprise subscription service, dataFraym allows […]
Mzansi Youth Choir Off To Flying Start In 2019
The Mzansi Youth Choir, made up of 55 performers aged 14 to 24, put many hours of heartfelt energy into their rehearsals, and their hard work has paid off. In December last year the Grammy Award-winning Soweto Gospel Choir invited them to join them in a unique performance of “Halo” with Beyoncé at the Global […]
