Five35 Ventures, an Africa-focused, gender-lens investment vehicle backed by the Mastercard Foundation Africa Growth Fund, has completed its first portfolio exit, generating a 3.5x […]
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Proflight Zambia Expands Fleet, Strengthening Connectivity For South African Travellers
Proflight Zambia has acquired three BAE Jetstream 41 29-seat turboprop aircraft from Eastern Airways, expanding its total fleet to 13 aircraft and strengthening connectivity […]
Onafriq Joins FINASA To Support The Growth Of Cross-Border Payments In South Africa
Onafriq, Africa’s largest payments network, connecting more than 40 African markets, has joined the Fintech Association of South Africa (FINASA) as an Enterprise Member, […]
Inaugural CDRFI Africa Forum Opened In Nairobi On The Sidelines Of The 8th EAISA Regulators And ZEP-RE Strategic Forum
21 countries convene to advance insurability and close Africa’s protection gap Africa insures only 3–5 per cent of disaster losses, compared with about 40 […]
Africa’s Solar Market Is Accelerating: Solar Africa Expo To Showcase The Companies Powering The Growth
Solar Africa Expo to take place alongside Africa Energy Indaba 2027 in Cape Town Africa’s solar market has entered a new phase of rapid […]
A critical pipeline that helped cushion the Hormuz shock just shut: Here’s what it reveals about corporate energy security
Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline was closed this week after serving as one of the largest buffers against this year’s historic Strait of Hormuz energy […]
Nigeria wins $2.35bn arbitration over Mambilla hydropower project
Nigeria has secured a major legal victory in the long-running dispute over the Mambilla hydropower project, after the International Chamber read more Nigeria wins […]
College grads shut out of AI-exposed majors since 2022 are ending up in retail and food service instead of the white-collar jobs they studied for
In late 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT, and within months the bottom rung of the tech-industry career ladder started to disappear. Graduates who majored in […]
UN-Habitat, BLUETTI Partner to Drive Clean Energy in Nigeria
Global clean energy company BLUETTI and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) have undertaken their second joint initiative under read more UN-Habitat, BLUETTI Partner […]
Goldman’s top strategist just added hard numbers to his earnings-bubble warning
Peter Oppenheimer, Goldman Sachs’ chief global equity strategist, told clients in early August that technology stocks might not have a valuation problem. Instead, they […]