Africa
Generation Africa announces prize winners of the US$100,000 GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize for 2020 and the Africa Food Prize
Top-12 finalist ventures and entrepreneurs this year hail from Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania...
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Hapag-Lloyd Expands Business in West Africa, Opens Office in Nigeria
As the largest economy and one of the most populous countries in Africa, Nigeria plays a crucial role in the...
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UnionPay, Interswitch Partner for Payment digitization Across Africa
UnionPay International (UPI) and Interswitch have announced their partnership, confirming Interswitch as a Third-Party Service Provider (TPSP) for UnionPay International...
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Afreximbank and ITFC Partner ARSO to Facilitate Intra-African Trade in Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices
The new initiative aims to harmonise African standards for pharmaceuticals and medical devices thereby enhancing intra-African trade, reducing substandard counterfeit...
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Nigerian Blockchain Startup, Chekkit, Pilots Drug Verification Tech in Afghanistan
Chekkit Technologies, a Nigerian startup that offers product verification, anti-counterfeiting solutions, announced that it secured a partnership to roll out...
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Afreximbank Disburses US$200 Million to Zenith Bank for Critical Imports
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), has disbursed $200 million to Zenith Bank Plc Nigeria, in a bid to support critical...
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African Development Bank ready to scale up Support for Public Private Partnerships in Africa
The African Development Bank estimates Africa’s infrastructure financing needs at up to $170 billion a year by 2025 Representatives of...
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AfDB approves $27.33 million to ramp up the AU’s COVID-19 Response Initiative
The approval follows a meeting of the extended Bureau of the Conference of Heads of State and Government with Africa’s...
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Small and Medium Enterprises Vital in African Agriculture – AfDB
Africa’s emerging agripreneurs call for increased SME-to-SME cooperation at Bank-organized food systems webinar attached to the African Green Revolution Forum...
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Vertiv Announces Distribution Partnership with Fajoba Group
Fajoba Group to offer Vertiv’s power, thermal management and rack technologies to enable reliable compute infrastructure and support growing regional...
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