African Businesses Can Now Harness Google AI to Simplify Search Advertising
Businesses can now create effective Google Search campaigns faster and easier using AI-powered suggestions and guidance* Following its initial announcement in January, businesses across Africa can now use Google’s Gemini AI-powered chat-like tool for Search Ads. This intuitive tool is now fully operational and designed to help businesses in Africa and across the world boost […]
Catona Climate To Deliver Microsoft 350,000 Tonnes Of Carbon Removal Through Agroforestry Project
Agreement demonstrates shared commitment to high-integrity projects that, beyond sequestering carbon, support biodiversity and benefit local communities long term Catona Climate, a global climate finance company, today announced that Microsoft has signed a six-year offtake agreement to purchase 350,000 tonnes of carbon removal credits from an agroforestry project in Kenya. Funded, designed and managed by Catona […]
Dialogues, Collaborations, And Platforms: The Voix EssentiELLES Link Actions And Words In Abidjan
Public-private partnerships, multisectoral collaboration, self-esteem, gender-based violence, the intersection between gender and public health, and positive masculinity were among the topics discussed at the event “The Importance of Platforms, Dialogue Spaces, and Representation in the Fight Against Gender-Based Violence and for Achieving Gender Equality” organized as part of the Voix EssentiELLES initiative in Abidjan, on […]
World Trade Map Being Redrawn As Global Growth Slows And Regional Links Deepen
As the global economy adjusts to persistent economic and geopolitical pressures and disruptions, the familiar routes that defined the world trade map are being redrawn and regional trade lanes are playing a greater role in world trade. The changing trade picture shows that overall global trade is growing at a slower rate than the world […]
Djibouti’s CNSS Makes 3rd Equity Investment In TDB
Djibouti’s Caisse Nationale de Securité Sociale (CNSS) has invested an additional USD 5.4 million in the capital stock of the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (TDB), making it its third investment in the Bank since 2020. Overall, CNSS has invested over USD 15 million in Class B shares and the value of […]
South Africa will Use a Third of its Gold and Forex Reserves to Manage Runaway Debt
Finance minister Enoch Godongwana announced this unusual move during his budget speech in parliament, this week. South Africa will withdraw $8 billion over three years. Godongwana said steps will be taken to ensure that sufficient buffers are available to absorb exchange rate swings and the solvency of the Reserve Bank is not compromised. The financial […]
The UNSC Sanctions Leaders of Six Armed Groups Fighting in the DRC
The committee imposed an arms embargo, travel ban, and asset freeze on two leaders of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), one leader from the Twirwaneho armed group, and one from the National Coalition of the People for the Sovereignty of Congo (CNPSC) rebels. The decision comes as violence in the country’s northeast has displaced nearly […]
Paris Urges “Rwanda to Cease All Support for the M23 and to Withdraw from Congolese Territory”
France’s statement came ahead of the United States warning about the situation. At a meeting of the UN Security Council on Tuesday evening, the US had warned Rwanda and the DRC that they “must walk back from the brink of war”. “The international community must take immediate steps to stop the fighting in the eastern […]
A Cost of Living Storm is Brewing in Africa
The African Development Bank is warning that the rising cost of energy, food and other commodities in several African countries, including Angola, Ethiopia and Kenya, could trigger social unrest. Already, people in Africa’s most populous country, Nigeria, have been marching to protest the high cost of living, prompting the government to release grain from the […]
A Raft of Factors Hinder the Passing On of Kenya’s Vernaculars
Kenya is a multilingual nation with dozens of Indigenous languages. But it risks losing this language diversity unless Kenyan children are taught them at school. Around 4 million people speak Luo in the East African nation, mainly in the west. Other Luo speakers live in Uganda and Tanzania. Luo, also known as Dholuo, is one […]
