Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Partners with Leading African Women Architects to Design the World’s First Presidential Center and Library for a Woman Head of State
The Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Development (EJS Center) announces that it is collaborating with atelier masōmī’s Mariam Issoufou Kamara, Counterspace’s Sumayya Vally,and Pan-African Engineering Group’s (PAEG) Karen Richards Barnes in the design of a state-of-the-art Presidential Center and Library in Monrovia, Liberia. The project will be a landmark in every sense of the word. Never before has a […]
Jurgen Hyde: Young Ghanaian Graduate Finds Success With Farming
Jurgen Hyde, founder and CEO of Hyde Group of Companies, is earning success through hard work and support from his mentors. The young business owner manages more than two companies under the Hyde Group of Companies, which includes an electrical appliances company and an agricultural company that involves animal farming. He is currently into the rearing […]
Steel Master Plan Needs Industry’s Commitment To Take Flight
Almost a year after the launch of the Steel Master Plan (SMP), Scaw Metals CEO Doron Barnes acknowledges the frustration many in the industry feel about the Plan, but he also believes it has the potential to rejuvenate upstream and downstream industries. Much of the criticism of the plan is a result of a misunderstanding of its role, he […]
Affordable And Reliable Internet Access Critical To Economic Growth, Says Standard Bank Mobile
Spokesperson: Lee Ramsden: Head Sales and Distribution at Standard Bank In the post-COVID-19 environment, access to digital devices and the internet has become a must-have for school assignments, healthcare, communicating with friends and family, finding a job, or starting a business. Yet many South African families remain unconnected and are thus excluded from the opportunities […]
Partnerships That Bring Complementary Services And Technology Can Enable The Growth Of Super-Apps
In The Region, Says Economist Impact Study Telcos, ride-hailing companies and online marketplaces are all diversifying to become part of super-app industry, specifically in the Middle East and Africa The second in a two-part report series commissioned by Mastercard Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, the paper was developed by Economist Impact, the research and […]
How to measure and improve your digital maturity for online sales success
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 19th April 2022 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- Is a website really a ‘digital experience’? South African retailers are in a rush to capitalise on the growing volume of South African consumers opting to do their shopping online as digitisation and the disruptive impact of the pandemic shift consumer habits. According to Amrish Singh, Global […]
African-born advocate and refugee, reflects on being a Black woman in the US
NEW YORK, USA, 19th April 2022 -/African Media Agency (AMA)/-On the heels of Black History Month in February, Women’s History Month in March and the appointment of the first Black female Justice to the US Supreme Court in April, one African woman has been talking to the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, about her childhood experience of […]
Putting An End To Forced Migration, One Forest Garden At A Time
“A chance to have the means to succeed at home, that’s what this initiative gives me!” 20-year-old Tidiane Día Mballo is one of 50 returned migrants in Kolda, Senegal receiving agroforestry training from Trees for the Future (TREES) through a partnership with the United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM). TREES teaches farmers how to revitalize degraded land through […]
