Zenith Bank has announced the launch of Zenith Bank Zecathon 3.0, a startup pitch competition in partnership with Seedstars. This event reaffirms the Bank’s commitment to identifying, supporting, and mentoring…
Konza Technopolis has launched the first ever Jitume Lab for youth with special needs at the Machakos Technical Training Institute for the Blind. The launch was presided over by the…
Testing, inspection and certification company SGS has announced plans to increase its investments in Angola’s mining and agriculture sectors, aligning with the Angolan government’s call for economic diversification. The company…
Multilateral development finance institution, the African Development Bank (AfDB), has approved a $102 million grant to support Ghana’s Fiscal Consolidation and Economic Recovery Program. The program – which runs from…
South Africa is accelerating the deployment of up to 3 GW of gas-fired power generation capacity amid efforts to address the country’s ongoing electricity crisis. Currently at the procurement stage,…
French multinational TotalEnergies and Angola’s national oil company (NOC), Sonangol, have signed an agreement to co-launch an initiative aimed at accelerating the decarbonization of Angola’s oil and gas industry and…
Australian gas explorer Kinetiko Energy has obtained approval to initiate a five-well drilling campaign in the southern region of Exploration Right 271 (ER271) in South Africa’s Mpumalanga Province. Representing a…
The Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) – Nigeria’s government agency in charge of coordinating transport planning, policies and public transport – has launched a new electric train service to…
In a significant move to democratize smartphone access, Kenya has finally unveiled its first local smartphone assembly plant. The East Africa Device Assembly Kenya Limited (EADAK ) was unveiled on…
Heman Bekele, a 14-year-old American student in ninth grade, was named “America’s best young scientist” after developing a soap that could be useful in treating melanoma, a type of skin…