Promoting Africa
Commercial operations on the 756-km electrified line connecting landlocked Ethiopia to Djibouti on the east of the continent has officially began. More than 95% of Ethiopia's trade passes through Djibouti, accounting for 70% of the activity at the Port of Djibouti. This new line replaces a French built one that served the nations for over…
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Ethiopian Airlines made history by operating an all-female flight crew within Africa last Saturday, from Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria. Every role on the flight was filled by women, including the pilots, cabin crew, in-flight ramp agents, and on-ground flight dispatchers. Amsale Gualu, the Ethiopian Airlines…
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South Africa will introduce free tertiary education for students from homes where the combined annual income is 350,000 rand ($27,600) or less annually. The program will be officially launched in 2018, and will take about 5 years to be fully implemented. "This is a drastic and a welcome decision that is long overdue, and provides…
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Here are 15 African startups, by field of activity, which made them talk during the year 2017, and especially during the last summit of startups emerging and developing countries, organized by Seedstarsworld in Switzerland. The field of health Mali: developed by Boubacar Keita, the MEDfast platform makes it possible to transmit the results of medical analyzes in a…
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On November 16, in a statement, the Rwandan government officially announced that all citizens of all countries in the world could benefit from a 30-day visa on arrival, without prior request. Already in place for all African countries and a number of countries outside the continent, from 1 January 2018, this system will expand to…
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MEST incubators announced the launch of two new Incubator spaces in Lagos, Nigeria, and Cape Town, South Africa, as the program continues to expand its presence across Africa. MEST Incubators in Lagos and Cape Town will act as an extension of the Accra community, offering entrepreneurs the same support, skilled staff, mentorship, network and resources enjoyed…
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A team behind a new mobile app that uses artificial intelligence to accurately diagnose crop diseases, recently won a $US100,000 award to help expand their project to help millions of small-scale farmers across Africa. "The CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas team won the grant during big data conference in Colombia on 21 September 2017,…
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