By Jenna Delport According to Ericsson Mobility Report mobile data traffic in Sub-Saharan Africa is estimated to grow by almost 6.5 times the current figures, with total traffic increasing from 0.87EB per month in 2020 to 5.6EB by 2026. Meanwhile,...

 Africa Energy Finance 2020 digital report is a tool kit to identify financing needs across Africa’s energy value chain; The continent is projected to require $29-39 billion in annual investment to meet forecast energy demand and achieve...

“We need to act now and step up financing if we want to free the world from hunger and poverty by 2030, and offer a sustainable future to the two billion rural people who grow much of our world’s food. Public Development Banks can be leaders...

Essakane hybrid power plant 15 MWp solar PV power plant in Essakane, Burkina Faso. The solar PV plant will be built next to a 55 MW Wärtsilä power plant currently running on heavy fuel oil, Africa’s largest engine-solar PV hybrid power plant. To...

  Sim Tshabalala Group CEO Standard Bank, addresses the impact of Covid19 on banking services and technology across Africa. Interviewed by John Everington Q: Standard Bank recently hosted its 10th annual Africa Investors’ Conference....

Ntuthuko Shezi describes himself as an innovator, someone whose job it is to change the way the world works and lives. He also refers to himself as the Cow Executive Officer of South African company Livestock Wealth. His business has built...

Is the Africa Growth & Opportunity Act a Failure? By Toyin Umesiri Chief Executive Officer, Nazaru llc. USA In the year 2000, a bipartisan U.S. policy called The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) was passed into law. AGOA was...

By Ville Rimali, Director, Growth & Development Africa & Europe, Wärtsilä Energy Business It is no longer disputable that the energy transition integrating renewable energies into the grid is a reality that is unfolding globally....