Tea body’s fate sealed as new regulations sent to AG office
Agriculture Secretary Peter Munya has sealed the fate of Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) after he released final regulations cutting its export role and weakening its control of…...
Read More Kenya’s Apollo Agriculture raises $6m Series A to continue its rapid scaling
Based in Nairobi, Apollo Agricultureis a commercial farming platform for small-scale farmers that uses machine learning and automated operations technology to help them accesseveryt…...
Read More World Bank: Morocco Has ‘Fantastic’ Offshore Wind Energy Potential
Rabat – Morocco has a “fantastic” offshore wind resource “that is too attractive to ignore,” World Bank senior energy specialist Mark Leybourne said.In a recent report about em…...
Read More First quarter real-time bank transfers rise fastest in six years
Bulk payments made through real-time bank transfers in the first quarter of 2020 rose at the fastest pace in six years, official statistics show. This partly signals progress in the…...
Read More Facebook is building $1 billion high speed internet across Africa
World’s largest social media company, Facebook is designing a massive underwater cable around Nigeria and other African countries, bringing high-speed connectivity to the continent…...
Read More Card payments up Sh1.6bn despite corona demand slump
The value of payments made through cards grew by Sh1.64 billion in the first three months of the year as the Covid-19 pandemic discourage cash handling.Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) d…...
Read More African Development Bank welcomes $10 million Clean Technology Fund investment to diversify Ethiopia
(AfDB ) - The African Development Bank has welcomed a decision by the Trust Fund Committee of the Clean Technology Fund (CTF), one of two funds within the Climate Investment Funds (…...
Read More Ghana Tech Lab Partners with Mastercard Foundation To Upskill Youth During Lockdown
Ghana Tech Lab partnered with Mastercard Foundation toupskill 1451 youths and provided free mobile data on a need basis to some participants to be able to enroll in a 2 weeks free o…...
Read More Investment in railways connect dry ports in Africa
Africa’s inland and dry ports have been boosted by investment in connecting railways as they continue to support increasing imports and exportsIn 1970, many African countries had b…...
Read More Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda agribusinesses secure Sh5 billion grants
A five-year multicountry project for Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda is investing 2 million Euros (about Sh4.96 billion) in grants to 14 Agri businesses in the three countries. The inves…...
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