December 12, 2018//-Participants at UNCTAD’s Africa eCommerce Week discover that e-commerce will flourish only when governments and businesses across the continent work together.
Category: Economy
Ghana Medical Association Calls for the Suspension of Drone Health Deliveries
Accra, Ghana, December 12, 2018//-The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has called on the government to suspend the implementation of its newly approved drone health delivery system in country with immediate effect.
Digital Africa Must Rise Up to the Occasion
December 12, 2018//-UNCTAD’s Africa eCommerce Week in Nairobi, Kenya, focused on what must be done to speed up the readiness of African countries to engage in and benefit from e-commerce.
Japan Doles Out $57 Million to Ghana for Road Rehabilitation
December 12, 2018//-Ghana has received a $57 million (¥6.49 billion) grant facility from the State of Japan for the rehabilitation of phase two of the national trunk road, N8.
London School of Economics and HEC Paris Join Forces for Leadership 2030 Program
Paris & London, December 11, 2018 – Leadership 2030: Navigating the tensions, contradictions and opportunities is a senior executive certificate program offered jointly between London School of Economics (LSE) and HEC Paris to launch in July 2019.
Nestle Ghana Adjudged Overall Best Industrial Company of the Year
Accra, Ghana, December 11, 2018//-Nestlé Ghana Limited has been named overall Best Industrial Company of the Year as well as Overall National Best Quality Company and National Quality Award, Diamond Category (Food), at the 7th Association of Ghana Industry and Quality Awards.
SSGL Adjudged Best Environmental Sanitation Company
Accra, Ghana, December 11, 2018//-Sewerage Systems Ghana Limited (SSGL), an engineering and construction company in Accra has been adjudged the Best Environmental and Sanitation Company of the Year 2018.
US-China Rivalry in Africa Set to Sharpen in 2019
Nairobi, Kenya, December 11, 2018/ — Early signs suggest that the US-China rivalry will find its way to the African continent in 2019. While the US is multiplying warnings about the perils of Chinese debt-fuelled spending for economic stability, China will continue to broaden its engagement across the continent, with particular focus on East Africa.
Can Engineers Un-engineer Loneliness?
December 11, 2018//-Don’t look now, but there’s a giant irony crouching in the corner. It goes something like this: with over 24 billion devices to connect us to one another worldwide, we are somehow lonelier than ever.
New Office Manager Appointed for Aurecon’s Lesotho Office
December 11, 2018//-Global engineering and Infrastructure advisory company Aurecon has appointed Kompi Nthejane as the new Office Manager for the company’s Lesotho office.