Airtel Money and TerraPay to offer mobile money services for Tanzanian customers traveling within the UAE
Afreximbank, Alphaden Energy and Oilfield Limited sign $60M loan agreement for gas processing facility in Nigeria
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), has signed a 7-year term loan agreement with Nigeria’s Alphaden Energy & Oilfield Limited for the construction of a 20 million standard cubic feet per day gas processing facility in Bayelsa State, Nigeria.
The agreement was signed by Paschal Anyanwu, CEO of Alphaden Energy & Oilfield Limited, and Rene Awabeng, Director and Global Head of Client Relations at Afreximbank, during the second day of African Energy Week (AEW) 2023, taking place in Cape Town... read more
Airtel Money and TerraPay to offer mobile money services for Tanzanian customers traveling within the UAE
Airtel Money Tanzania in partnership with TerraPay, a cross-border payments network, has launched an international remittance service enabling Airtel Money customers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to make purchases at points of sale terminals using their Airtel Money accounts at no extra cost.
This announcement follows the recent launch of the 10% Fly Dubai discount announced in July... read more
IBM expands relationship with AWS to bring generative AI solutions to clients
IBM has announced an expansion of its relationship with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help more mutual clients operationalize and derive value from generative artificial intelligence (AI).
As part of this, IBM Consulting aims to deepen and expand its generative AI expertise on AWS by training 10,000 consultants by the end of 2024; the two organizations also plan to deliver joint solutions and services upgraded with generative AI capabilities designed to help clients across critical use cases... read more
Nigeria to train 3 million tech talents over the next four years
Nigeria has committed to training 3 million tech talents over the next four years. Speaking at Day 1 of TechCabal’s inaugural flagship Moonshot Conference on Wednesday, the country’s Minister of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy, Dr. Bosun Tijani revealed that the ambitious goal is stated in the ministry’s recently released policy document... read more
[South Africa] Vodacom to list and trade on A2X
Vodacom Group will officially trade as a secondary listing on the A2X Stock Exchange at market open on Thursday, 26 October 2023. This means that holders of Vodacom Group's ordinary shares can be traded on A2X from the date of listing.
The Group will retain its primary listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), and its issued share capital will be unaffected by the additional listing on A2X. The secondary listing on A2X complements the company's primary listing by providing its investors with an alternative trading venue... read more
AfDB commits over $23 million to Rwanda’s new Aviation Centre of Excellence
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved a $23.6 million loan for the construction and equipment of a new aviation training facility in the Rwandan capital, Kigali.
The proposed Centre of Excellence for Aviation Skills (CEAS), including an aircraft hangar, will partner with higher learning institutions to produce a skilled workforce to meet global aviation training standards and industry demands... read more
Kenyans ready to embrace electric vehicles to combat climate change, Epson survey reveals
A recent survey by Global Technology Company Epson has revealed that 72.1% of Kenyans are willing to invest in electric vehicles in an effort to combat climate change.
The survey dubbed the Epson Climate Reality Barometer which gathered insights from over 30,000 respondents in 39 markets worldwide, sheds light on global responses to climate change.?.. read more
[Column] Mansoor Hamayun: Why Africa will beat the West to Net Zero
The UK is currently in a muddle. It is legally bound to get to Net Zero by 2050 – in fact, it was the first major economy to pass a net zero emissions law. But how on earth to get there – and at what cost? The current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says that now is not the time to burden hard-pressed families with the cost of Net Zero through heat pumps and electric cars... read more
[South Africa] Fintech firm Ukheshe and Komuniti collaborate to make digital banking services more accessible
African communities have historically found innovative ways of collaborating and combining individual financial resources for the good of the many. Stokvels and funeral savings are just two examples of community initiatives to which everyone contributes and from which everyone benefits. These and other savings and community wealth creation mechanisms are often entered into without proper banking and financial services resources, and many individual members who contribute have no bank account.. read more
[Interview] Oluwole Eweje, CEO-WATT Renewables Corporation
Wole, you’re the founder and CEO of WATT – but what does that role look like today? Is it different to when you founded the company?
When we first started, our focus was on fine tuning the idea, understanding the different landscape where we planned to operate, pitching our ideas to various stakeholder groups to better understand areas where fine tuning was needed, developing the business, and sharing our vision with our clients. At the same time, we were trying to convince investors that the model was commercial, environmental and financially viable and it was a good business model for them to want to invest in... read more
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