Global Corporates May Be Missing The World’s Next Hotspot For Business Process Outsourcing
Business process outsourcing (BPO) has a long and exciting history that dates back decades when businesses started exploring ways to outsource peripheral activities to other companies who could do it cheaper. While many still associate BPOs with setting up call centers in other countries like India and the Philippines, today, the landscape is evolving. More […]
Join Bronze Sponsor Somoil At AEW 2022: Explore Investment Opportunities In Africa’s Largest Oil Producer
Somoil – the single largest and first privately held 100% Angolan capital company to operate in Angola’s oil and gas sector – will be participate at African Energy Week (AEW) – Africa’s premier event for the oil and gas sector – as a bronze sponsor. Taking place from October 18 – 22 in Cape Town, under the theme Exploring and […]
Parametric Development Insurance Shows Real Impact On African Continent Amidst Calls For Increased Climate Finance In Run Up To COP27
Climate finance is a hot topic in the run up to COP27. While Africa waits for developed nations to fulfil their aid pledges, climate financing is making a difference on the continent, but more needs to be done. Less than two months to this year’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, African leaders […]
Salesforce Announces First-of-its-Kind Carbon Credit Marketplace
Empowering Any Organisation To Take Climate Action On Their Journey To Net Zero New Net Zero Marketplace connects buyers with ecopreneurs in a trusted, transparent carbon credit platform to scale climate-positive impact Carbon credit providers Climate Impact Partners, Cloverly, Lune, Pachama, Native, A Public Benefit Corporation, Respira International, and South Pole, third-party rating companies Calyx […]
Ethiopian Airlines Wins Multiple Prestigious Awards At SKYTRAX 2022 World Airline Awards
Moves 11 Ranks Up In The World’s Top 100 Airlines Ethiopian Airlines, the largest Aviation Group in Africa, is pleased to announce that it has been named the winner of four awards at the SKYTRAX 2022 World Airline Awards, at a ceremony held in London on 23 September 2022. Ethiopian has taken the crown for: Best […]
Trial of Guinea’s Former President and Others Accused of the 2009 Stadium Massacre Begins
Thirteen years ago, on Sept. 28, 2009, security forces stormed a stadium where tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters were demonstrating against the president at the time, Capt. Moussa Dadis Camara, who had seized power in a coup. More than 150 people were killed, hundreds of others were wounded and at least 109 women were […]
A Proposed Ban on the Deployment of Kenyan Domestic Workers to Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia is known for its poor labour and human rights record, and is widely considered one of the most dangerous places to work in the world. Employers in the Gulf state have been dogged by allegations of physically, mentally and sexually abusing their migrant housekeepers for years; claims which continue to resurface. In Kenya, […]
‘An Organized Attack on Freedoms by the Remnants of the Old Regime’ – Sudanese Lawyer
Sudan’s public prosecution has launched legal proceedings against a prominent newspaper and the bar association, triggering complaints that authorities are trying to restrict basic freedoms nearly a year after a coup. On Monday, the public prosecution’s cybercrimes unit issued an order to block the website of Al-Sudani newspaper, one of the country’s most respected dailies. […]
Ramaphosa’s Opponents Want Him Impeached over a Growing Scandal
In December, South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) will hold its elective conference, and key provinces have indicated that they will support President Cyril Ramaphosa’s bid to be re-elected as the party’s leader. But a personal scandal could see him face an impeachment vote before the conference even takes place. On June 1, 2022, […]
Tighter Controls at Uganda’s Borders
Following an outbreak of Ebola in the Ugandan town of Mubende, health authorities in the Kenyan frontier town of Busia have heightened surveillance in a bid to prevent the virus from spreading across the border. Everyone passing through the border from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, South Sudan, and Uganda into Kenya now have […]
