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MultiChoice shortlists 11 small businesses to pitch for international funding

MultiChoice shortlists 11 small businesses to pitch for international funding

27 Feb 2023

Advantage Group names Lauren Filen as customer director for Africa

Advantage Group names Lauren Filen as customer director for Africa

23 Feb 2023

Image supplied. South African Sihle Hlophe, graduate of the 2022 online Film Impact Screening Facilitation course, is an executive producer at Passion Seed Communications and produced the recent award-winning film Lobola, A Bride's True Price?

2023 online Film Impact Screening Facilitation course open for applications

23 Feb 2023

Meta appeals Kenyan court's decision it can be sued in Kenya

Humphrey Malalo and Ayenat Mersie 21 Feb 2023

Source © Adobo Magazine Moving Walls and Dentsu Africa have formed a partnership to launch a full-stack Out of Home (OOH) advertising technology platform across multiple markets in the continent

OOH and DOOH solution for Africa launches

20 Feb 2023

Jan Middendorp. Source: Supplied.

Jan Middendorp set to receive TDC Medal

17 Feb 2023

Bathweels can be watched on Cartoonito. Source: Supplied.

Boomerang Africa rebrands to Cartoonito Africa

17 Feb 2023

MTN commits to $1bn Ghana investment after government scraps tax claim

MTN commits to $1bn Ghana investment after government scraps tax claim

16 Feb 2023

Bogosi Motshegwa. Source: Instagram.

Advertising Week Africa kicks off

Karabo Ledwaba 15 Feb 2023

Pharrell Williams takes the reins as Louis Vuitton's new men's creative director

Pharrell Williams takes the reins as Louis Vuitton's new men's creative director

15 Feb 2023

Danone Southern Africa appoints Herve Orama Barrere as MD

Danone Southern Africa appoints Herve Orama Barrere as MD

13 Feb 2023

#BizTrends: 6 global retail trends making their mark in FMCG

#BizTrends: 6 global retail trends making their mark in FMCG

Lauren Hartzenberg 10 Feb 2023

Branded notebooks with images of Nigerian presidential candidates are displayed at a shopping center in Abuja, Nigeria. Source: Reuters/Abraham Achirga.

Printers of Nigeria election regalia lose out as ad campaigns pivot online

Abraham Achirga, Sofia Christensen, Hereward Holland and Aurora Ellis 8 Feb 2023

New Lego Friends lineup features diverse new characters with complex emotions

New Lego Friends lineup features diverse new characters with complex emotions

8 Feb 2023

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Legal

French court to rule on landmark TotalEnergies Uganda case

America Hernandez 28 Feb 2023

MultiChoice shortlists 11 small businesses to pitch for international funding

Entrepreneurship

MultiChoice shortlists 11 small businesses to pitch for international funding

27 Feb 2023

New French fund with €87.5m targets African solar development

Energy & Mining

New French fund with €87.5m targets African solar development

Forrest Crellin and Sudip Kar-Gupta 27 Feb 2023

Cars drive past Nigerian national flags in Abuja, Nigeria 12 June 2021. Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde

Legal

Financial crime watchdog adds South Africa, Nigeria to "grey list"

Tassilo Hummel, Alexander Winning and Bhargav Acharya 24 Feb 2023

Source: Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko

Retail

Truworths' earnings boosted by credit sales

Nqobile Dludla 24 Feb 2023

Female-owned farms and companies are growing Ghana's taste for coffee

Agriculture

Female-owned farms and companies are growing Ghana's taste for coffee

Francis Kokoroko and Cooper Inveen 24 Feb 2023

Africa's agribusiness sector should drive the continent's economic development: 5 reasons why

Agriculture

Africa's agribusiness sector should drive the continent's economic development: 5 reasons why

Lilac Nachum 24 Feb 2023

Advantage Group names Lauren Filen as customer director for Africa

Retail

Advantage Group names Lauren Filen as customer director for Africa

23 Feb 2023

Roland Adjovi, a producer of Ecolo coal, transforms plant waste into bio charcoal at his workshop in Cotonou, Benin, 27 January 2023. Reuters/Charles Placide Tossou

ESG & Sustainability

Benin entrepreneur transforms plant waste into charcoal

Pulcherie Adjoha and Seraphin Zounyekpe 22 Feb 2023

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Retail

Hermès to give all 19,700 employees globally a €4,000 bonus

22 Feb 2023

Legal

Meta appeals Kenyan court's decision it can be sued in Kenya

Humphrey Malalo and Ayenat Mersie 21 Feb 2023

Source: Reuters.

Healthcare

Medical charity MSF suspends operations in Burkina Faso to assess risk

20 Feb 2023

Source: Reuters.Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres speaks as he receives the University of Lisbon 2020 prize, in Lisbon, Portugal, January 5, 2023.

Finance

Debt-laden African countries charged 'extortionate' rates, UN chief says

Dawit Endeshaw 20 Feb 2023

Congo demands $17bn more in infrastructure investments from China deal

Construction & Engineering

Congo demands $17bn more in infrastructure investments from China deal

Stanis Bujakera and Sonia Rolley 17 Feb 2023

Recession is likely or certain, say logistics execs

Logistics & Transport

Recession is likely or certain, say logistics execs

17 Feb 2023

Russia-Ukraine war has nearly doubled household energy costs worldwide - new study

Energy & Mining

Russia-Ukraine war has nearly doubled household energy costs worldwide - new study

Klaus Hubacek, Jin Yan, Yuli Shan and Yuru Guan 17 Feb 2023

African online retailer Jumia's Q4 losses narrow on cost savings

Retail

African online retailer Jumia's Q4 losses narrow on cost savings

Nqobile Dludla 17 Feb 2023

Africa Agri Tech 2023 to spotlight agriculture, science and technology

Agriculture

Africa Agri Tech 2023 to spotlight agriculture, science and technology

17 Feb 2023

MTN commits to $1bn Ghana investment after government scraps tax claim

ICT

MTN commits to $1bn Ghana investment after government scraps tax claim

16 Feb 2023

Source: Reuters. A person holds a new 1000 Naira note as the Central Bank of Nigeria releases the notes to the public through the banks in Abuja, Nigeria.

Finance

Nigeria's plan to ditch old banknotes leads to chaos

15 Feb 2023

Pharrell Williams takes the reins as Louis Vuitton's new men's creative director

Retail

Pharrell Williams takes the reins as Louis Vuitton's new men's creative director

15 Feb 2023

Noise from deep-sea mining may disrupt whale song, study finds

Energy & Mining

Noise from deep-sea mining may disrupt whale song, study finds

Helen Reid 14 Feb 2023

Danone Southern Africa appoints Herve Orama Barrere as MD

Retail

Danone Southern Africa appoints Herve Orama Barrere as MD

13 Feb 2023

Call to apply: Fashionomics Africa incubator and accelerator programmes

Retail

Call to apply: Fashionomics Africa incubator and accelerator programmes

13 Feb 2023

#BizTrends: 6 global retail trends making their mark in FMCG

Retail

#BizTrends: 6 global retail trends making their mark in FMCG

Lauren Hartzenberg 10 Feb 2023

Africa gears up to keep more of the profits from lithium boom

Energy & Mining

Africa gears up to keep more of the profits from lithium boom

Clara Denina and Wendell Roelf 10 Feb 2023

Botswana warns of dangers in dash for African minerals

Energy & Mining

Botswana warns of dangers in dash for African minerals

Helen Reid 10 Feb 2023

Organisation of African Geological Surveys, AU sign MoU to promote development in Africa

Energy & Mining

Organisation of African Geological Surveys, AU sign MoU to promote development in Africa

9 Feb 2023

2023 BIM Africa Innovation Awards nominations now open

Construction & Engineering

2023 BIM Africa Innovation Awards nominations now open

9 Feb 2023

Zimbabwe to start operating new coal power unit by March

Energy & Mining

Zimbabwe to start operating new coal power unit by March

Florence Tan 9 Feb 2023

TotalEnergies' head met Mozambique president with key gas project at stake

Energy & Mining

TotalEnergies' head met Mozambique president with key gas project at stake

Sudip Kar-Gupta 8 Feb 2023

Kenya Power to convert its 2,000 vehicles to electric over 4 years

Energy & Mining

Kenya Power to convert its 2,000 vehicles to electric over 4 years

George Obulutsa 8 Feb 2023

Vantage Capital announces final close of 4th mezzanine fund

Entrepreneurship

Vantage Capital announces final close of 4th mezzanine fund

7 Feb 2023

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