Month: August 2025

  In celebration of Women’s Month, Smarter Mobility Africa and WiN are proud to announce a powerful and timely webinar, Powering Progress: Women, E-Mobility&Safer Transport in Africa, taking place on Wednesday, 20 August 2025. This free, virtual event will bring together women who are leading the charge in making transport systems across Africa safer, smarter, and more inclusive. The webinar offers a unique blend of lived experience, policy innovation, and […]

  Africa’s financial sector has taken a major step toward aligning with global climate and sustainability goals with the validation of a continent-wide Sustainable Finance Taxonomy.  The groundbreaking framework, the first of its kind for Africa, was endorsed by regulators, commercial banks, insurance firms, and development finance institutions in Nairobi on July 16-17.    Led by the African Development Bank through its African Financial Alliance on Climate Change (AFAC) platform, […]

  The Global Mercy™, the world’s largest civilian hospital ship, docked once again in Freetown marking the start of its third consecutive field service in Sierra Leone. Operated by the international NGO Mercy Ships (https://MercyShips.Africa/), the vessel’s return deepens its partnership with the Government of Sierra Leone to strengthen the country’s healthcare system and expand access to safe, free surgeries.   Following a brief maintenance period in Cádiz, Spain, the […]

  Nigeria has risen to the forefront of Africa’s digital economy with a powerful ecosystem that is both homegrown and resilient – fuelled by government initiatives, global tech enterprises, and a thriving startup ecosystem; propelling Nigeria’s future with tech opportunities in talent development and digital infrastructure to help achieve the goal of US$1 trillion economy by 2030. Central to Nigeria – and Africa’s – ambitions of digital sovereignty lie in […]

  Ethiopia’s ambition to build a new international airport that will rival some of the world’s biggest, took off on Monday with a monumental signing ceremony marking the African Development Bank’s role (www.AfDB.org) as the initial mandated lead arranger, global coordinator and book runner to mobilize nearly $8 billion of the $10 billion needed for the mega project. The Bank plans to provide financing of $500 million, subject to Board […]

  The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) has unveiled the findings of a first-of-its-kind study mapping women entrepreneurs’ associations across sixteen African countries, revealing significant capacity gaps that hinder their economic impact. Launched on 6 August in Nouakchott, the study shows that while nearly one in four African women is an entrepreneur, 87 percent of women’s associations lack financial management capacity. Only 29 percent have partnerships with financial institutions, and in […]