SAP Young Professionals Program Extends Digital Skills Build To Lusophone Africa
SAP’s flagship digital skills build initiative the Young Professionals Program is celebrating its first-ever graduates from Lusophone Africa. At a virtual graduation ceremony attended by Constantin Zelenty, Deputy Head of Mission German Embassy Angola, Cathy Smith, Managing Director SAP Africa, Pedro Guerreiro, Managing Director SAP Central Africa as well as SAP customer and partner representatives, […]
BitDAO Raises $230M To Launch One Of The World’s Largest DAOs
BitDAO has completed a private sale, with over $230M from leads (Peter Thiel, Founders Fund, Pantera Capital and Dragonfly Capital) and other partners Bybit has pledged recurring contributions to BitDAO BitDAO aims to use its significant financial and talent resources to improve innovation, collaboration and growth across the DeFi space BitDAO, one of the world’s […]
Through The Looking Glass: An Optimist’s View Of West Africa’s Ten-Year Prospects
By Titilayo Adewumi, Regional Sales Director: West Africa at SAP What will West Africa look like in ten years? Will we continue on the path of slow advancement, or will technology be a catalyst that could see us create a technologically advanced society such as the one embodied by Wakanda in the Black Panther movie? […]
DHL Adds Sustainable Marine Fuel Option For Full-Container Load Shipments
.DHL Global Forwarding is offering to reduce its main haul carbon emissions with the use of Sustainable Marine Fuels for ocean freight . Customers can now decarbonize their entire ocean freight supply chains .The new service offers a fuel-switch on behalf of the customer DHL Global Forwarding, the air and ocean freight specialist division of Deutsche […]
Rehabilitation Centre in Eastern DRC Helps Victims Cope with the Trauma of Sexual Violence
It was the silence of the traumatised young women she saw before her that convinced dance teacher Amina Lusambo she must do something to help. So she set up dance sessions for rape survivors at a rehabilitation centre attached to Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, in eastern Congo, which according to hospital authorities has treated more […]
Syrians Who Fled War Carve a New Path in Somalia
Since the war in Syria broke out a decade ago, refugees have fled to countries in the Middle East and Europe as well as to countries in Africa that face instability, like Somalia. But now Somali officials say Syrian refugees are enriching the host nation culturally and economically. Syrians who chose to find refuge in […]
Bringing Informal Retailers in Africa into the Digital Economy
Kenyan startup MarketForce, an end-to-end retail distribution platform for consumer brands, has announced the strategic acquisition of Digiduka. Launched in 2018, MarketForce enables consumer brands to optimise how they deliver essential goods and services to retailers and consumers by bridging the information gap in last mile distribution, while maximising efficiency across the sales and distribution value chain. The […]
Raising Capital for Africa’s Development Goals
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has launched a $464m five-and-a-half-year ‘kangaroo’ social bond, its first return to Australian fundraising since 2018. A kangaroo bond, sometimes known as a matilda bond, is a foreign bond issued in the Australian market by non-Australian firms denominated in Australian currency. AfDB social bonds raise money for projects that alleviate […]
New Rankings of Climate Change Scientists Overlooks Research by Africans
The Reuters Hot List of “the world’s top climate scientists” is causing a buzz in the climate change community. Reuters ranked these 1,000 scientists based on three criteria: the number of papers published on climate change topics; citations, relative to other papers in the same field; and references by the non-peer reviewed press. The list […]
A Grassroots Campaign Pressurises Authorities into Instituting a Plastic Ban in Malawi
For more than five years, Gloria Majiga-Kamoto, a 30-year-old Malawian environmental activist, has waged a David v Goliath battle against some of the country’s largest plastic manufacturers to bring an end to single-use plastics. After a protracted legal battle with plastic manufacturers, the Malawi Supreme Court upheld a national ban on the production, importation, distribution, […]
