African Review looks at how each African economies rate against one another and how the continent’s economic diversity affects each economy differently. Sub-Saharan Africa enjoyed a decade of GDP growth averaging at 5.7 per cent, per year until 2014. However, …
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South Africa Earmarks R30m for Entrepreneurs with Disabilities
The South African government envisages a society where citizens living with disabilities are accorded their full political, human, social and economic rights like their fellow South Africans. To this end, the country’s Minister of Small Business Development Lindiwe Zulu will …
President of Mauritania inaugurates landmark solar plants delivered by Masdar
Eight new rural solar energy projects have been completed, and are now operational, across the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, in western North Africa, doubling the UAE’s total contribution to the country’s clean energy capacity to 31.6 megawatts (MW). Delivered by …
Africa: Rwanda Third Best Place to Be a Girl in Africa
The Girls’ Opportunity Index report by Save the Children has ranked Rwanda the third best country in Africa to be a girl and 49th globally out of 144 countries studied. The report released on Monday, just a day before the …
African start-up helps and inspires young female entrepreneurs
In Zambia, one of their blogs is the undisputed arbiter of style. In South Africa, one of their apps is the gateway to private beaches and pop-up dining. In Kenya, they teach entrepreneurship to stay-at-home mothers, and in Nigeria, they …
Somalia’s football Premier League kicks off
Somalia’s Premier League season has kicked off to a fresh start, after FIFA issued communication gadgets to referees.
Local teams are hoping to strengthen the standards of their game, and have brought in many foreign players from across the continent.
African Countries Vow to Protect Environment
African nations are pledging to protect the environment says a report on Vice. At the COP 22 conference las week, held in Marrakech, Morocco, 25 nations signed an agreement to promote sustainable tourism. At the conference, “Alain St. Ange, tourism …
Kenyan children learn ballet at Kibera slum
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Nairobi, Kenya – With more than 2.5 million people in some 200 settlements, the slum dwellers in Nairobi represent more than half of the city’s population and occupy merely 6 percent of the land, according to a report [PDF] released in 2014 …
First Solar Plant Serving 40 Households in Bong County
About 40 households and businesses in Totota in Bong County, the central part of Liberia, for the first time in post-war history were connected to regular electricity supply powered by solar plant. The mini solar plant is operated by Liberia …
Founder of Africa’s first girls only science and tech school named most influential black Briton
Tom Ilube has just been named the UK’s most influential black person in the UK. The decade-old annual Powerlist 2017 selects 100 of the most powerful people of African and African Caribbean heritage in the country. But who is Tom …