Developing skills for the digital age

The Nairobi Bottler’s Embakasi Plant based in Nairobi, Kenya, a fully owned subsidiary by Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA), has received a Totally Integrated Automation training rig from Siemens Digital Industries South Africa to enable skills development in...

Heficed launches Nigerian presence

For the IaaS industry, a market that is set to grow by $101,56-billion in the next five years, the African continent holds a special potential for growth. Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, is already attracting international companies. Heficed, a provider of...

Africa needs to change IP attitudes

African companies and industries are losing value by failing to protect their intellectual property and failing to patent innovations. This is according to Professor Munashe Furusa, vice-chancellor of Africa University, who says estimates of the damage done to the...

Cameroon gets energy boost

For many years, Cameroon’s national electricity supply has been notoriously unreliable and subject to power cuts. The last significant electric system outage, which lasted eight hours, occurred last March and affected several of the country’s regions (the...

What can SA and Nigeria do to grow faster?

The heads of state of sub-Saharan Africa’s two biggest countries – Nigeria and South Africa – met earlier in October as part of continuing bilateral engagements aimed at strengthening and deepening cooperation between the two countries. President...

Raising climate change funds in Africa

The African Development Bank, in partnership with the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), has commissioned the Coalition for Green Capital (CGC) to prepare a study on the creation of national climate change funds and green banks in Africa. CGC will identify and work with...