Sasol Fuels Supply Chain Efficiency With SAP Ariba Deployment
Successfully navigating a business through uncertain times requires that decision-makers have full visibility over every aspect of the business in order to make accurate, informed decisions. For one of South Africa’s largest global organisations, decentralised and siloed procurement systems and processes across multiple business units left it blind and lacking the visibility it needed to […]
AkzoNobel Delivers 15 By 20 Promise And Continues Strong Momentum In Q4, With 6% Revenue Growth In Comparable Currencies
Akzo Nobel N.V. (AKZA; AKZOY) publishes results for fourth quarter and full-year 2020 Highlights full-year 2020* 15.0% ROS excluding unallocated cost1, delivering on our 15 by 20 promise* ROI excluding unallocated cost2 up at 20.6%, exceeding our 2020 ambition* €243 million of cost savings, of which €115 million structural savings* Net cash from operating activities […]
Ghanaian Computer Specialist Designs Popular Game for Kids
London-based Ghanaian entrepreneur and computer science specialist Patrick Adom is inducting children into the fascinating world of jigsaw puzzles while teaching them about African culture. Now, Adom has his eyes set on raising further investment and funding to expand the company’s unique offering. He began drilling down and creating puzzles for other countries like his […]
Biden Looks at the Ethiopia Dam Saga with Fresher Eyes
The U.S. State Department on Friday said Washington will de-link its pause on some aid to Ethiopia from its policy on the giant Blue Nile hydropower dam that sparked a long-running dispute between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan. U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters that President Joe Biden’s administration will review U.S. policy on […]
Is Nigeria Ready to Leave Fossil Fuels and Go Green?
Worries over the future value of crude oil are particularly acute in Nigeria, where over 90% of export value is generated by fuels, oils, and distillation products. Policymakers fret that a rise in the sales of electric vehicles (EVs) across Europe and Asia will undermine its most valuable export. In its Global EV Outlook 2020, […]
South Africa Launches a List of Critical Skills it Needs
The Department of Home Affairs has published its draft critical skills list for South Africa, outlining the skills which are in short supply in the country. The list is important for businesses in South Africa who are looking to attract skilled workers. The last critical skills list was published by the Department of Home Affairs […]
The Problems Holding Back Africa’s Robust Adoption of the Internet
Despite experiencing substantial growth in internet users in the last decade, Zimbabwe, a country of 14.7 million, still suffers from underutilized mobile internet capacity and low smartphone penetration, according to the latest annual report from the country’s largest telecommunications provider, Econet Wireless. The report offers some fresh insight into the problems holding back the robust […]
New WTO Chief to Prioritise Access to the Vaccine
Fixing the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is not enough for Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the first woman and first African to lead it. On the day she was appointed as director-general, she announced that she wanted to help bring an end to the pandemic, too. The two are related; she hopes to encourage members to lift export […]
