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Norrsken, a global Entrepreneurship hub has earmarked USD12 million for investment into the local and regional entrepreneurship scene through their Kigali Campus. The campus which is expected to commence operations …
Kigali Based Entrepreneurship Hub to Invest $12m In Rwanda’s Start-Up Scene Read More
In the coming years, the retail e-commerce packaging market in Africa will expand at the fastest pace. When the global population grows, so does the market for different consumable and …
Demand for retail e-commerce packaging to skyrocket in Africa Read More
Professor Xu Weiguo’s team at Tsinghua University School of Architecture independently researched and built a “Mobile Platform of Robotic 3D Printing in Concrete” and a “Rapid Construction System for Concrete …
3D Printing Concrete housing in Africa Read More
CarePay, a platform that funds private and public insurance plans with smart mobile health wallets to provide access to good healthcare, has lent private healthcare facilities US$18.24 million, mainly to …
CarePay lends $18.2m to Kenyan private healthcare providers Read More
For Sh225 million, US-based investors have built a second outpatient hospital aimed at middle-class Kenyans. Columbia Pacific Management owns Columbia Africa Healthcare Limited, which has already made investments in China, …
US investors have built a Sh200 million hospital in Nairobi Read More
Mining is one of the primary sectors that has been benefited by reforms and has contributed to Tanzania’s economic growth during President John Magufuli’s first term as president. Thanks to …
Tanzania’s Mining industry accounts for over 15% of the country’s GDP Read More
With the construction industry moving towards modular construction, the University of Pretoria (UP) Graduate School of Technology Management senior lecturer Schalk Grobbelaar stated that mass timber is one of the …
South Africa Mass timber has competitive building-material qualities Read More
The new Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold Chain (ACES) in Rwanda has taken a significant step forward thanks to a US$3.5 million (£2.4 million) funding boost …
A multi-million dollar boost for Africa’s sustainable cooling centre Read More
A free tool has been launched to assist farmers and pastoralists across Africa in predicting and managing locust behaviour. Kuzi—the Swahili name for the wattled starling, a locust-eating bird—is an …
Artificial Intelligence Aiding African Farmers in the Fight Against Locusts Read More
Burkina Faso’s race to reach 200 MW of solar capacity by this year has been lifted by the announcement this morning of plans for another 30 MW project near the …
Development Lender Announces 30 MW Burkina Faso Solar Project Read More