Africa50 has secured $71 million for its Distributed Renewable Energy Fund, giving the infrastructure investor more capital to back smaller renewable power projects across Africa.
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motoringVolkswagen Group Africa will have a new chair and managing director from 1 October, with Christiane Zorn taking over from Martina Biene. Biene is moving to the Škoda board, where she will be responsible for sales and marketing.
EntrepreneurshipAlgerian artificial intelligence expert and entrepreneur Salah Eddine Makdour founded Notiverse in 2023, developing a mobile application that brings text, audio and image-based notes together in one place.
energyGhana has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding with Shell and Chevron over the South Deepwater Tano Cape Three Points block as the government proposes reducing the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation's (GNPC) carried interest in new upstream projects from 15% to 10%.
motoringToyota is considering using hydrogen-powered trucks to move automotive parts and support other logistics operations at its factories, as the carmaker looks for more practical uses for hydrogen technology.
TechnologyGauteng recorded the highest participation in Vodacom South Africa's Turn Your E-Waste into Rewards Challenge, highlighting consumer uptake of e-waste recycling when collection is convenient and accessible.
start-upsStaritude Solutions started in January 2024, when Boitumelo and Naledi Moroke, sisters and both single mothers, sat down at a kitchen table in Johannesburg with no savings and no jobs.
investmentsKenya has ordered Tata Chemicals Magadi to stop operations as the government seeks to reshape the economic model around the Magadi soda ash operation, with greater emphasis on local processing, jobs and domestic value creation.
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start-upsGhanaian fintech startup Seevcash has secured US$333,000 in funding through the Stellar ecosystem as it expands its remittance and peer-to-peer money transfer platform for African diaspora communities.
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