Regional Integration as a Tool for Wealth Creation in Africa
By Khaled Sherif
The COVID-19 pandemic and its health and economic impacts has forced a global rethink of the...
Seed stage investing and why it matters for Africa’s startup and innovation community
Amadou Daffe from Gebeya (An Ethiopian EdTech company training top talented African Software Engineers specialized in several industries including AI,...
Three East African entrepreneurs among 21 finalists in the nutrition pitch competition for African...
In the 2018 Africa SUN Pitch Competition final, Kennie-O Cold Chain Logistics, a Nigerian SME that moves food from producers to...
Vital Capital Collaborating With USAID’s Kenya Investment Mechanism to Provide Financing to Kenyan Businesses...
Vital Capital, a pioneering impact
investment, private equity fund focused on companies in sub-Saharan Africa, has
announced a collaboration with the U.S. Government’s Kenya...
Cold Solutions Kenya to invest US $70m in state-of-the-art storage warehouses in the country
Cold Solutions Kenya Limited has announced that it will invest US $70m in constructing state-of-the-art, temperature-controlled cold storage warehouses in the country....
Tanzania: African Development Bank project tripled incomes of rural producers and traders
An African Development Bank project to enhance market infrastructure, value addition and rural finance (MIVARF) (https://bit.ly/38xRvFo) in Tanzania produced highly satisfactory results,...
Adoption of precision agriculture to match fertilizer inputs in livestock farming
Livestock farmers are increasingly adopting precision
agriculture techniques to match fertilizer inputs more closely to grassland
requirements. The techniques, underpinned by a combined package...
Development banks fund livestock farms to the tune of US $2.6Bn
Livestock farms around the world are set
to receive US $2.6Bn in funding from the International Finance Corporation
(IFC) and the European Bank for...
IFAD invests €77.7 million in Niger for food and nutrition security and climate change...
The
International Fund for Agricultural Development of the United Nations (IFAD)
today announced a new project that will boost support for about 210,000 poor
rural...
Resilience in the time of COVID
Many companies are struggling to cope with the pandemic
that has caused deaths of well over 400,000 people globally. In Kenya it is...