Final preparations are underway for the 2018 Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank Group on May 21-25, 2018, in Busan, Korea, addressing “Accelerating Africa’s ...

A major study by the Africa Centre for Economic Transformation (ACET) has highlighted how transforming agriculture can become a stimulus for economic development ...

The potential for the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to become a powerful tool for driving industrialisation, economic diversification and development has ...

The 2018 Nigeria Innovation Summit announces its call for papers.Nigeria Innovation Summit is the leading annual event that focuses on the need for ...

Orange Digital Ventures Africa, the Orange investment fund’s new initiative for Africa launched last June, is proud to announce its first investment, helping Africa’s ...

As part of its West Africa expansion, connectivity and data centre solutions operator MainOne  has secured a license to expand national and international ...

 Ecobank , a leading pan-African banking group, is inviting African fintech entrepreneurs to enter for its Ecobank Fintech Challenge 2018. Now in its second ...

Innovate Ventures pioneer in the Somali start-up space, has just opened applications for the next round of its Hargeisa-based tech accelerator. To date, ...

African Entrepreneurs are encouraged to enter for the 2018 African Entrepreneurship Award and Shared in the $1 Million Prize money if you have a ...

Feed the Future, supported by Land O’Lakes International Development and the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, has opened its call for applications ...

Registration is now open for the  African Women Summit For Peace & Development in Africa organised by COWAP.It provides is an opportunity to network, cross ...

Mastercard is calling for applications from Nigerian fintech startups for its Start Path 2018 programme, the company’s initiative that supports innovative later-stage start-ups ...

A unique partnership between the Next Einstein Forum (NEF), an initiative of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), and Elsevier, the information analytics business specializing in science ...

More than 150,000 Africans from 114 countries worldwide applied to join the 4th cycle of The Tony Elumelu Foundation’s (TEF) 10-year, $100 million TEF Entrepreneurship ...

The technology and science company Merck recently, announces its ten new startups taking part in the Merck Accelerator. The teams are operating in the ...

Speakers at the International Conference on Responsible and Inclusive Finance (ICRIF) (http://www.amir.org.rw) held in Kigali on 21 March urged Rwandan microfinance institutions (MFIs) to ...

Africa’s scientists and innovators descend on Kigali, Rwanda, for the Next Einstein Forum Global Gathering 2018 set to be held on 26 – ...

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. introduces the Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+, the smartphones that reimagine the way people communicate, share and experience the ...

The Republic of Malawi (“Malawi”) has become the second Southern African member country of Africa Finance Corporation (“AFC” or “the Corporation”), Africa’s leading ...

Millions more people in Africa now have access to financial systems thanks to cashless systems using digital technology, and more and more people ...

ITU Telecom World 2018, will take place in Durban, South Africa, from 10 to 13 September, at the Durban International Convention Center (ICC).Organized ...

Startupbootcamp (SBC), a global family of industry-focused accelerators, last year launched its first-ever Africa-based programme. Building on the success of its inaugural 2017 ...

Nigeria's digital publisher, Publiseer, has been announced as one of the 14 finalists of the 2018 Harvard Business School's New Venture Competition,taking place ...

Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. An important part of this is ...

The U.S. African Development Foundation invites proposals for grant financing and local support, from African enterprises, cooperatives, and producer groups with innovative solutions ...

Tony Elumelu Foundation Accepting Applications For 4th Cycle Of $100M Entrepreneurship Development Programme 2018

Richard Branson,Founder of Virgin Group in a recent blog post encourages Impact Investors to explore the $10 Billion Renewable Energy Market in Nigeria.Here ...

All On is launching the Clean Energy Innovation Challenge, in partnership with Co-Creation Hub to facilitate increased access to affordable, reliable and sustainable ...

How artificial intelligence is revolutionizing personalized medicine,

This came as a shock learning about the death of Prof Calestous Juma.Africa has in deed lost a distinguished academics who is passionate and ...