J Initiative, a nongovernmental organisation (NGO) partnered with World Vision International, Facebook, Tigo, Vodafone, Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Open Learning, Ghana Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-Ghana) and Department of Children to undertake a series of activities to celebrate this year’s Safer Internet Day.
The 2017 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) is now in its death throes, because eight teams:Egypt, Ghana, Cameroon, Morocco, Tunisia,Senegal, Burkina Faso and DR Congo managed to squeak into the quarterfinals;whiles half of the 16 finalists got creamed in the first round.
Impact investing pioneer Root Capital announced today at the African Green Revolution Forum a new partnership with The MasterCard Foundation that will help raise incomes for over 300,000 smallholder farmers in West Africa.
United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, the leading pan-African banking group and MasterCard, a global payments technology company have announced a partnership which will see UBA act as the issuer for MasterCard in 18 new markets in Africa.
The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) has agreed to give a $ 20 million credit facility towards the construction of an ultra-modern shopping mall that would serve as a one-stop shop in Kumasi, Ghana.
In spite of the current economic challenges and rising inflation on other sectors of the economy which Ghana’s mobile telecom operators rely on (light, water, rent, among others) to be productive, they still charged the lowest domestic call rates in Africa.
On the eve of U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit to Kenya for the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, GeoPoll, the Global Entrepreneurship Network and the U.S. State Department released a survey of 1,000 business owners throughout sub-Saharan Africa on entrepreneurship in their countries.
Facebook has opened its first office in Africa to further the company’s commitment to help businesses connect with people and grow locally and regionally.
Global research consultancy TNS has announced an exclusive and wide-reaching strategic partnership with GeoPoll, the world’s largest mobile survey platform.
Schneider Electric, the world specialist in energy management, released the first survey on electrical counterfeiting products ever conveyed in Africa.
