Africa Business Tourism And MICE Masterclass 2023 Set To Ignite Massive Transformation
Scheduled for 27 and 28 July 2023, the 6th edition of the Africa Business Tourism and MICE Masterclass will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa. Participants of the MICE Masterclass include Ministers, policymakers, directors of tourism, tourism departments, development Agencies, principal and permanent secretaries, meeting planners, professional conference organisers, professional event organisers, destination marketing companies, […]
Improving Access To Healthcare In Africa Through Women’s Innovation
By Jean Philbert Nsengimana, Chief Digital Advisor for the Africa CDC July 11, 2023, will mark the twentieth anniversary of the Maputo Protocol on African Women’s Rights. By identifying the protection of women’s rights as a foundation for sustainable development, the Protocol guaranteed African women and girls fundamental rights, including the right to education and […]
21st Edition Of Digital Transformation Summit, South Africa Physical Conference On 20th July 2023
The operational landscape of businesses worldwide is undergoing a change due to digital transformation. The world’s economies have experienced a profound impact because of technologies such as cloud computing, AI, machine learning, and predictive analytics. Digitalization has been recognized as a fundamental pillar that will underpin the future digital economies on the continent. Achieving success […]
NOG Energy Week 2023 To Lead Critical Discussions For Nigeria’s Sustainable Energy Future
Powering Nigeria’s Sustainable Energy Future: A Bold Step towards Economic Growth and Environmental Stewardship Nigeria’s foremost international energy conference, NOG, has announced that the 22nd edition of its annual Energy Week, scheduled to take place from 9th – 13th July 2023, with the theme “Powering Nigeria’s Sustainable Energy Future”, will run at the International Conference […]
Union54 Launches Chat And Payments Platform “ChitChat” In Partnership With Mastercard
Union54, a leading provider of innovative digital financial solutions, and Mastercard, a global payments technology company, today announced the launch of social commerce platform ChitChat. Mastercard’s integration into ChitChat’s payments and USD Debit Card features represents a deepening of their partnership to enable the issuance of cards in African markets, beginning with Angola, Tanzania and […]
African Women Seek To Boost Innovation And Creativity In Agribusiness
By Aimable Twahirwa Adeline Umukunzi, a 28-year-old woman mushroom farmer in Musanze, a district located about 100 km north of the capital Kigali, said women have often been the unseen faces of agribusiness in Rwanda. “Women have always played a vital role in agriculture, but behind the scenes. We are starting to see more and more […]
Adopted as a Working Language at the AU: a Push to Make Kiswahili Africa’s Lingua Franca
Kiswahili is spoken across eastern and central Africa. Mother-tongue speakers are found mainly along the coast, but Kiswahili is spoken as a second or third language by people around the world. According to UNESCO, which in 2021 proclaimed 7 July as World Kiswahili Language Day, it’s spoken by 200 million people. Many, including literary heavyweights […]
Rwandan President Paul Kagame Pushes for Closer Ties between Caribbean and African States
Speaking at the 45th Caribbean Community (Caricom) conference in Trinidad and Tobago and called on both regions to stop blaming others for their problems. He highlighted that both regions need to advocate for more inclusive borrowing terms when countries need to take loans and greater cooperation on tackling climate change. He also spoke about opportunities […]
Monitoring Group Calls Out Morocco’s Handling of Migrants
At least 951 people, including 49 children, have died while trying to reach Spain by sea in the first six months of 2023, according to a monitoring group. In a report released on Thursday, Caminando Fronteras (Walking Borders) said the people lost at sea hailed from 14 countries: Algeria, Cameroon, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the […]
Lifting of a Six-year Ban on Logging in Kenya has Sparked Outrage
Activists say the decision has once again put a harsh spotlight on the government’s mismanagement of the country’s forests. The logging ban was introduced in 2018 after public outcry over shrinking water resources blamed on the destruction of water towers — mountain forests that are key sources of water. The Mau Forest in the Rift […]
