Lagos, Nigeria//– Cascador, an Africa-focused platform that unlocks the potential of the region’s most transformative entrepreneurs, has today announced the opening of applications for its 2026 Cascador ScaleUp Program, for an elite class of ambitious founders poised to scale their companies.
MobileMoney Limited (MML) has been crowned the leading’ Fintech Solutions Provider of the Year at the 2026 Ghana Fintech Awards.
Accra, Ghana//-Ghana’s Vice President, Prof Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, today hinted that the government is strengthening partnerships with development finance institutions to expand lending to Small-scale and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), with targeted provisions for women-owned businesses in the country.
How African women are turning personal breakthroughs into collective impact, and why ALX’s numbers prove the model works. “Breaking through barriers to success without passing back similar opportunities is merely an arrival. And Africa doesn’t need any more people who have merely arrived.”
New York, US//-─ After three years of declining rates, the global transactional risk insurance market turned in 2025 with primary representations and warranties (R&W) rates rising across most regions, according to a new report published today by Marsh (NYSE: MRSH), a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting.
Accra, Ghana// — Ghana, like many countries in the WHO Africa Region, remains vulnerable to public health emergencies due to underlying vulnerabilities and challenging health systems.
Nigeria’s ambitious $900 million poultry partnership with Chinese investors is encountering a significant domestic setback as local farmers mount a coordinated campaign against the foreign-backed initiative.
Cameroon// — Since June 2023, Cameroon has been implementing the “Healthy Food Market” project in two pilot markets in Douala: Ndogpassi and New Deido. Described as a transformational and social initiative, the project is based on scientific evidence to encourage behaviour change within the community of traders.
For nearly a decade, the global system has been repeatedly shaken by major disruptions, first the COVID-19 pandemic, then the Russia–Ukraine war, and now escalating conflict involving the United States, Israel, and Iran. Each of these crises, though different in nature, has exposed a common vulnerability: the fragility of global supply chains.
The Western Regional Forestry Office, in collaboration with the Takoradi District Office of the Forestry Commission, has successfully thwarted a fresh armed invasion at the Subri River Forest Reserve, located in the Western Region.
