Interview With Ms. Shona Mcdonald, Founder and Executive Director of Shonaquip Social Enterprise (South Africa)
Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) Prize Competition, a flagship philanthropic initiative sponsored by the Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Philanthropy, just announced the Top 3 winners of the 2022 ABH awards for talented African entrepreneurs selected from 21,000 applications from all 54 African countries this year. South Africa has been participating since inception of ABH in […]
Seedstars Launches A Program For Women-led Startups And Organizations That Support Women Entrepreneurs In Africa
Seedstars’s Enhancing Women Entrepreneurship in Africa (EWEA) program is calling for women-led small to medium enterprises (WSMEs) as well as community enablers and entrepreneurship support programs in Africa to apply for its mentorship, skills capacity-building workshop series. Interested WSMEs and enablers can sign up here before December 31: https://seedsta.rs/EWEA. Women entrepreneurs face multiple challenges to […]
Standard Bank To Participate In The 3rd US-Africa Summit
Chief Executive Officer Sim Tshabalala Will Deliver Remarks at The Africa Business Forum, hosted by the White House Standard Bank (OTCMKTS: SGBLY) will participate in the 3rd US-Africa Summit in Washington, D.C. from 13-15 December. The Summit will underscore the importance of U.S.-Africa relations and increased cooperation on shared global priorities. Standard Bank participated in previous iterations of […]
Uganda: African Development Bank Group Commits $301 Million To Renovate The Country’s Meter Gauge Railway And Bolster Regional Trade
The works entail the immediate rehabilitation of 265 km of MGR tracks between Malaba and Mukono, including the line to Jinja Pier and Port Bell on Lake Victoria The African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) is providing $301 million to overhaul the Kampala-Malaba Meter Gauge Railway (MGR) in Uganda. The railway line is part of the […]
Mount Elgon Farmers Look To The Future With Hope
By Charity Nalwoga and Lindsay Cobb Farmers in Eastern Uganda are looking to the future as they continue to recover from unseasonal flooding and landslides in July and August. “It normally floods [earlier], but this year that changed and so we were not expecting it at all,” says farmer Edward Mukhwana. Edward’s farm is in Bumbobi sub county, one of the regions most affected by the […]
Africa Data Centres To Expand Sameer Facility In Nairobi By 15MW Of (Information Technology) IT Load
The new data centre will begin with 5MW of IT load and will be built in the company’s leading-edge modular design Africa Data Centres (www.AfricaDataCentres.com) is expanding its Sameer facility in Nairobi by up to 15MW of IT load;The facility will be built in the company‘s leading-edge modular design. Africa Data Centres, a business of Cassava Technologies […]
