Eco-Fuel Africa Wins a Verizon “Powerful Answers” Award
Eco-fuel Africa, created by Ugandan accountant and social entrepreneur Moses Sanga to reduce deforestation and carbon emissions, is one of 12 winners of Verizon’s...
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Sub-Saharan Africa’s mobile market presents significant opportunities for telecommunication companies, device and module vendors, and application providers. With its telecommunications market maturing, and mobile...
Tony Elumelu’s Entrepreneurship Initiative Goes Live
At the stroke of midnight, as the year 2014 slipped into history and 2015 made its raucous entry into Nigeria, local billionaire Tony Elumelu...
Ethiopia’s Growing Tech Economy
Ethiopia’s tech economy is making strides, thanks to increased government support for ICT development and the establishment of start-up incubators and hubs.
The ICT and...
Africa Business Club at Harvard Spotlights Inclusion, Innovation
Africa Business Club, a student club of Harvard Business School, is gearing to put the spotlight on inclusion and innovation at its 17th Annual...
African Diaspora Marketplace Launches Third Round
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Western Union launched the third round of the African Diaspora Marketplace (ADM III), a public-private...
US Imports From Africa Set To Decline Yet Again
U.S. imports from Africa are on track to decline for the fourth consecutive year, as the country ramps up its own production of oil...
MasterCard Advances In Africa
U.S. credit card giant MasterCard Worldwide and The MasterCard Foundation took new steps this month to deepen the brand’s expansion into Africa, respectively launching...
The Business of Tourism in Africa
The business of tourism in Africa takes center stage from November 11 to 16 in Kampala, Uganda, when more than 500 industry professionals and...
Physicians: Africa’s Ill-Afforded Export
The U.S. Census Bureau reports that the number of African-born immigrants in the United States has roughly doubled each decade since 1970, with the...
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Sino-Africa Relations: An Elder’s View
I am sick and tired of being sick and tired of complaints that China is taking advantage of Africans even as it provides money...
