Business
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How Youths In Malawi Are Embracing Entrepreneurship To Secure Their Future
Jul 13, 2017Idrissa Usher Hussein, 26, founded Climax Fashion Designs in 2015, a business that specializes in designing and sewing both male and female attire. Hussein says he started as a young tailor on a microscopic scale with... -
Finding a solution to the exploitation of tobacco tenants in Malawi
May 21, 2017By Kelvin Tembo Tobacco production provides employment to a cross section of Malawians and contributes to over 70 percent of the country’s foreign exchange earnings. But despite Malawi’s dependence on tobacco, tenants who are at the... -
Hand Over: A Sustainable Human-Centred Approach to Solving Egypt Housing Problems
Dec 24, 2016To create a real community development, each segment of the community has something to contribute. That is the principle behind Hand Over, a human-centred award winning social enterprise solving housing deficit in Egypt. Similar to Latin... -
Local Thrift Group Boosts Financial Inclusion In Rural Malawi
Dec 13, 2016By Deogracias Benjamin Kalima Sophie Mdala runs a small business in Chikwawa district of southern Malawi. Sales have been good for the past eight years, but it could be better. To improve her business, Mdala needs... -
Resilient Kenya: Trudging Ahead Of Our Challenges
Dec 7, 2016By Robert Aseda No single statement could have ever captured the mood of a nation than the, ‘Please, Just Steal a Little.’ It is a declaration of people pleading with those in power to plunder public... -
How can data and digital services secure rural and food futures in Africa?
Nov 19, 2016Key Messages Data and digital services are transforming the lives of people in Africa, chiefly through mobile telephones and related-services. Data and digital services economy is insufficient to create the economic transformation needed in securing rural... -
How a Community Currency is Driving Kenya’s Rural Economy
Nov 18, 2016A growing number of local community residents in rural Kenya can now pay for goods and services, including their children’s school fees and church offerings, with the use of a widely accepted community currency, Sarafu-Credit. The... -
Buhari’s N500bn Social Investment Votes, Greatest Duty To Nigerians — Don
Feb 17, 2016A don, Dr Adetunji Ogunyemi, on Monday said the social investment votes of President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2016 appropriation bill was the greatest service to Nigerians. Ogunyemi is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of... -
Zimbabwe and South Africa Collaborate on Power Project
Dec 21, 2015By Wallace Mawire Zimbabwe and South Africa are set to collaborate in a trans-frontier 1000 to 2000 MW clean coal fired power station project to help support the development of the new Musina Special Economic Zone... -
Senator Adeola Commends Ambode On Security, Explains ‘High’ Crime Statistics In Lagos
Dec 1, 2015The Senator representing Lagos West Senatorial District, Senator Solomon Adeola has commended the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode for the huge investment in provision of security in Lagos state as only a secure environment is conducive to economic...