The Year 2023 May have been a Regressive One from a Funding Perspective for the African Tech Startup Space
According to the ninth edition of the African Tech Startups Funding Report, released last month by Disrupt Africa in partnership with Flourish Ventures, AAIC Investment, and Atlantica Ventures, a total of 406 startups raised a combined total of US$2.4 billion over the course of 2023. After bucking global trends in a record-breaking 2022, African tech […]
Building a Pan-African Business News Network for the African Continent
Zafar Siddiqi, the co-founder and chairman of CNBC Africa, passed away on Friday, February 23. He was 76. An entrepreneur in media and education with an impeccable record across three continents – the Middle East, South Asia and Africa, Siddiqi was also the Chairman of Lancaster University Ghana and Curtin University in Ghana. Siddiqi firmly […]
Study Shows South African Commerce Students want Education Centered around African Business Leaders
Much of management and commerce teaching globally can be described using the acronym “WEIRD”: it’s dominated by western, educated, industrialised, rich and democratic countries. Students in the management and commerce faculty at a rural campus in South Africa suggested that more African examples be included – for instance, the work of the late Zimbabwean scholar […]
Green Finance: The Key to Unlocking Africa’s Vast Potential and Combating Climate Change
Op Ed by Professor Mthuli Ncube, Zimbabwe Minister of Finance Climate change disproportionately impacts low-emitting countries, including those in Africa. Despite contributing minimally to global emissions, Africa faces severe climate events that outstrip its capacity to adapt. To bolster climate action, the international community has committed to providing finance, technology and capacity-building support to developing […]
MIGA And TDB Expand Their Partnership To Bolster Trade Finance In Africa
In 2020, the World Bank Group’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) and the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (TDB) signed a first-of-its-kind credit enhancement facility providing a 10-year EUR 359 million guarantee for commercial bank financing extended to TDB for trade finance, with longer tenors and lower interest rates. In December 2023, […]
Cover Africa’s Leading Digital Art Exhibition, Art2Business
Art2Business, Art2Business is Africa’s largest digital open submission exhibition space for contemporary art and also uses it as an EdTech tool at public institutions to empower young and emerging artists from the continent. Art2Business is a trailblazer in empowering emerging artists across Africa, providing them with a digital platform to highlight their talent to the […]
U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency Partners With African Union Pan-African Veterinary Vaccine Center In Ethiopia
Members of the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Biological Threat Reduction Program (BTRP) and U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) and Office of the Secretary of Defense participated in a ground-breaking ceremony for the new African Union Pan-African Veterinary Vaccine Center (AU-PANVAC) laboratory and training center in Bishoftu, Ethiopia on Feb 21, 2024. PANVAC is a […]
Ethiopia: African Development Fund grants $46 million to improve access to water and sanitation for pastoral communities in the Borana region
Tens of thousands of farmers and low-income households in southern Ethiopia will benefit from a program financed by an African Development Fund donation. The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund in Abidjan on 28 February 2024, donated $46.02 million to Ethiopia to implement Phase 2 of the Borana Resilient Water Development for Improved […]
