(Posted 24th August 2023)
CCA IN THE NEWS
Corporate Council on Africa Announces John Olajide To Serve as Board Chairman Starting 1 January 2024
All Africa
The Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) is pleased to announce the election of John Olajide as the new Chairman of the Board, effective January 1, 2024. He will succeed Dr. Jeffrey L. Sturchio, who has served as CCA Chairman since April 2016 and will continue as a CCA Board member… Read More>>
CCA MEMBERS IN THE NEWS
Senegal to receive €50 million from Africa Finance Corporation to boost oil and gas industry
World Pipelines
The corporation’s investment in the Sangomar oilfield will be used to drive the first phase of development towards achieving first oil, a key milestone in the advancement of the country’s hydrocarbons sector…Read More>>
Gbenga Agboola says Flutterwave’s IPO plans remain on track despite unstable market
Technext
Olugbenga Agboola, Flutterwave’s co-founder and CEO, has reiterated the company’s plans to go ahead with its planned Initial Public Offering (IPO) against all odds, citing the need to meet global clients’ standards and compliance… Read More>>
U.S. Department of Defense
Mara Karlin, performing the duties of deputy undersecretary of defense for policy, underscored the strong ties between the two countries today after meeting in Djibouti last week with senior leaders from U.S. Africa Command and the President of Djibouti Ismail Omar Guelleh…Read More>>
Following commercialization, USF tech provides sanitation to South Africa
University of South Florida
Hundreds of elementary school students in South Africa now have access to clean water and sanitation thanks to the commercialization of technology built at USF. The solar-powered NEWgenerator provides off-grid sanitation technology and generates nutrients, energy and water by safely recovering them from human wastewater. It’s the first unit to be manufactured by WEC Projects since the USF Technology Transfer Office signed a licensing agreement in 2020…Read More>>
ENERGY
UN Environment Programme
Africa’s private sector can bolster its green agenda and drive increased GDP, higher income per capita, create tens of millions of jobs, and foster collaboration between governments, businesses and local communities, according to a comprehensive study published today by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)… Read More>>
Nuclear ‘fiasco’ threatens to worsen South Africa’s load-shedding
African Business
Electricity output at Koeberg Nuclear Power Station near Cape Town could fall to zero by November if a programme to upgrade one of the plant’s two units incurs further delays. “The idea of grass charcoal had never crossed my mind!” exclaims… Read More>>
HEALTH
World Health Organization
A Regional Summit on Health and Climate Change for the African Region is taking place at BICC in Lilongwe in pursuit of a unified African position on health in climate change negotiations. The summit has brought together delegates from African states and various development partners, state and non-state actors (AFIDEP, Amref Health, Paladium, PACJA and the African Group of Negotiators), research institutions and UN agencies… Read More>>
Africa CDC and AUDA-NEPAD Established Diagnostic Advisory Committee (DAC) to Harmonize regulatory processes for Invitro Diagnostics (IVDS) and to accelerate access to diagnostics for the health security of the continent
Africa CDC
To accelerate access to diagnostics in the continent, Africa CDC in partnership with key partners have launched the Africa Collaborative Initiative to Advance Diagnostics (AFCAD). The AFCAD will address four key objectives: Promote local manufacturing of diagnostics, map, identify and build capacity of diagnostic centres of excellence (the Africa Biobanking Network), facilitate harmonization of regulatory processes and requirements, and global market negotiation. The AFCAD initiative, to bring the needed change in access to diagnostics, has to be supported by regional and continental harmonization of the regulatory processes for medical devices including Invitro Diagnostics (IVDs)…Read More>>
All Africa
The African Development Bank Group has awarded grant funding totalling $84.3 million to Ethiopia to advance wheat production and increase farmers’ incomes. Ethiopia’s Finance Minister Ahmed Shide and African Development Bank Group Deputy Director General for East Africa, Abdul Kamara, signed the grant agreement on 2 August 2023 for the implementation of the country’s Climate Resilient Wheat Value Chain Development Project (CREW)…Read More>>
Why technology is the answer to Africa’s farm productivity challenges
Nation
Dr Canisius Kanangire is the Executive Director of AATF, an organisation that provides farmers in Africa with practical technology solutions to overcome farm productivity constraints… Read More>>
ICT
Anambra ICT Agency meets Speaker Udeze, initiates plans to Digitize the State’s Legislative Processes
Tech Build Africa
There are high hopes for the possibility of Anambra citizens having access to the State Laws and other legislative instruments digitally, as the Anambra State ICT Agency on Friday took its digitization drive to the State House of Assembly… Read More>>
Zawya
The recent disruptions in the global supply chains has presented a unique opportunity for African countries to dominate the supply of finished high technology commodities, strengthening their economic resilience in the face of shocks… Read More>>
FINANCE
Daily News Egypt
Mohamed Maait, Minister of Finance and Governor of Egypt to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), has stressed that Egypt will be the voice of Africa at the eighth annual meetings of the AIIB that will be convened for the first time in Africa on 25 and 26 September in Sharm El-Sheikh… Read More>>
