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Ethiopia partners with POSCO, a South Korean steel manufacturer, to replace metal & metal products imports.
Ethiopia partners with POSCO, a South Korean steel manufacturer, to replace metal & metal products imports. POSCO is involved in exports, imports, triangular trade, and domestic sales of steel products and is one of the largest steel manufacturers globally....
Yirgalem Integrated Agro-Industrial Park (IAIP) earns over 4.4 million USD in avocado oil exports.
Yirgalem Integrated Agro-Industrial Park (IAIP) earns over 4.4 million USD in avocado oil exports. The IAIP has 11 sheds & produces avocado oil, honey, milk, coffee, and more, capable of serving over 150 companies. YBM & Sunvado are the two avocado oil...
Ethiopia partners with POSCO, a South Korean steel manufacturer, to replace metal & metal products imports.
Ethiopia partners with POSCO, a South Korean steel manufacturer, to replace metal & metal products imports. POSCO is involved in exports, imports, triangular trade, and domestic sales of steel products and is one of the largest steel manufacturers globally....
Yirgalem Integrated Agro-Industrial Park (IAIP) earns over 4.4 million USD in avocado oil exports.
Yirgalem Integrated Agro-Industrial Park (IAIP) earns over 4.4 million USD in avocado oil exports. The IAIP has 11 sheds & produces avocado oil, honey, milk, coffee, and more, capable of serving over 150 companies. YBM & Sunvado are the two avocado oil...
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BERTAT HEINEKEN introduces its first malt-based non-alcoholic energy drink, BERTAT, to Ethiopia. BERTAT is a fruity-tasting drink that provides instantaneous energy like other energy drinks while adding the benefits of malt and the nutritional benefits of vitamin B6...
Tems, wins the Best International Act at the BET Awards 2022
Nigerian singer Temilade Openiyi, aka Tems, wins the Best International Act at the BET Awards 2022. Tems is a 27-year-old singer, songwriter, and record producer who received multiple nominations and won awards like Soul Train Music Awards, NAACP Image Awards, Net...
Dashen Bank launches a $4.4 million data center
Dashen Bank launches a $4.4 million (ETB 230 million) next-generation Huawei FusionModule2000 data center solution built to Tier-III standards with integrated power, cooling, rack, cabling, & management systems. The Huawei FusionModule200 is an intelligent modular...
Greytrix Africa wins the Sage Platinum Club Partnership Award
Sage is a global market leader for technology, providing customers with the best cloud technology and support. It helps small and medium businesses (SMBs) run operations smoothly with its software that makes decision-making quicker and more accurate. It offers its...
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Innovation & Technology signs an MoU with ORION AST, a US satellite company
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Innovation & Technology (MINT) signed an MoU with ORION Applied Science and Technology, a US satellite company. ORION Applied Science and Technology provides superior engineering solutions to transform the aerospace industry. Its goal is to...
VivaTech selects three winners for the AfricaTech 2022 awards
VivaTech is Europe's largest startup & tech event, widely regarded as a powerful catalyst for business transformation, startup growth, and social innovation. Its AfricaTech Awards is a pan-African initiative recognizing and supporting the most innovative startups...
Mesfin Tassew becomes a member of IATA’s Board of Governors
Mesfin Tassew becomes a member of the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) Board of Governors. He was elected at the 78th IATA Annual General Meeting and World Transport Summit in Doha, Qatar. The IATA is a trade association representing 290 airlines in...
Kenya’s first Green Bond by Acorn Holdings Limited wins the Most Innovative Bond at the EMEA Finance 2021 Awards
Kenya's first Green Bond by Acorn Holdings Limited wins the Most Innovative Bond at the EMEA Finance 2021 Awards. EMEA Finance specializes in reporting financial & banking developments and offers corporate investments analysis, retail banking services, &...
Nehemiah Autism Center receives ETB300,000 from NISCO to support autistic children
Nyala Insurance S.C. (NISCO) donates ETB300,000 to Nehemiah Autism Center to treat and train autistic children. NISCO is one of the leading insurance companies in Ethiopia in terms of performance growth and financial position. In Ethiopia, it is estimated that 1 in 88...
Buhle Goslar joins Copia Global, a mobile commerce platform, as a board member
Copia Global is a platform that provides mobile commerce to middle and low-income African. It is one of the fastest-growing retail enterprises in Kenya and Uganda. Copia aims to enhance its platform and expand from e-commerce services to digital and financial...
Ethiopian Airlines, MoH, Children’s Heart Fund of Ethiopia, & Rotary Ethiopia sign an MoU to help children with heart disease
Ethiopian Airlines, the Ministry of Health, Children’s Heart Fund of Ethiopia, and Rotary Ethiopia sign an MoU to help children with cardiovascular disease get free medical services. Ethiopian Airlines will provide 100 children and 100 caretakers round-trip services...
Senegal plans to build Africa’s first full-service vaccine manufacturing plant
Senegal plans to build Africa’s first full-service vaccine manufacturing plant, Madiba, with $80 million funded by the Institut Pasteur de Dakar and the European Investment Bank. Madiba, short for Manufacturing in Africa for Disease Immunization and Building Autonomy,...
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Education collaborates with Microsoft to help digitize the education sector
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Education collaborates with Microsoft to help digitize the education sector with HETMIS. The Higher Educational Training Management Information System improves data collection, management, reporting, and analytics. The HETMIS enables the...
The Mastercard Wellness Pass solution to be launched in Ethiopia
Ethiopia's Ministry of Health, Mastercard, Gavi, and JSI partner to launch the Mastercard Wellness Pass solution. Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry aiming to create an inclusive digital economy globally. Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, is...
Ethiopian Airlines wins two categories in the 2022 APEX Regional Passenger Choice Awards
Ethiopian Airlines wins the 2022 APEX Regional Passenger Choice Awards for Best Entertainment and Best Cabin Service in Africa. Passengers from over one million flights rated the 2022 winners using a five-star scale across over 600 airlines. The award identifies...
Mastercard and Ecobank collaborate to digitize Africa’s agricultural value chains
Mastercard and Ecobank collaborate to digitize Africa's agricultural value chains using Mastercard's Farm Pass platform. Farm Pass is an award-winning digital platform that connects smallholder farmers to financial and agricultural ecosystems. It boosts the collective...
Sotheby’s International Realty opens its first office in Cairo, Egypt
Sotheby's International Realty is one of the world's longest-standing tastemakers with an exceptional luxury real estate company founded in 1976. The company offers property listings globally, including houses, condos, townhomes, villas, and more. It has over 1,000...
Elman Peace receives the 2020/2021 KBF African Development Prize
The King Baudouin African Development Prize honors remarkable & innovative Africans dedicated to the continent's development. The award is given every other year with a €200,000 prize to present winners with opportunities to increase visibility, promote their...
YeneGuzo, by AddisMap, is among the four winners of the DT4A Innovation Challenge
The DT4A Innovation Challenge aims to support organizations and initiatives, ranging from private companies, universities, and NGOs, contributing to improving the transportation sector through sustainable and equitable results using open data. The initiative is led by...
Professor Mitiku Haile becomes a laureate of the GCHERA World Agriculture Prize 2021.
The Global Confederation of Higher Education Associations for Agricultural and Life Sciences (GCHERA) selects Professor Mitiku Haile as one of the two laureates for the 2021 World Agriculture Prize. The GCHERA is a global network of national and regional Higher...
Rwandan Awoke Ogbo turns plastic bottles into bricks
Awoke Ogbo is a Rwandan undergraduate from the Global Challenges at Africa Leadership University based in Rwanda. He created Operation 414, a social enterprise idea that makes eco-friendly & affordable roads & pathways for Rwanda. Awoke found a way to turn...
Africa’s first International Book Fair will be held in Addis Ababa towards the end of 2022.
Tsehai Publishers is one of the few publishing companies committed to producing African literature. It publishes books that depict Ethiopia's historical, political, economic, & cultural issues and bring international knowledge. The company aims to provide...
Ethiopia’s Federal Housing Corporation officially opens the Gerji Village Construction Project
Ethiopia’s Federal Housing Corporation officially opens the Gerji Village Construction Project. The modern residential village with 16 ten-story buildings is built on 3 hectares. The village was completed in 18 months with Aluminum Formwork technology, the most...
C. Mputhia Advocates joins the International Lawyers Network
Mputhia Advocates, a Kenyan law firm, has become a member of the International Lawyers Network. The ILN is a network of high-quality, full-service law firms providing legal services for clients with international needs. It is one of the world’s leading networks of...
Tadash Steel Manufacturing Industry opens a steel mill
Tadash Steel Manufacturing Industry opens a steel mill built with ETB 5.8 billion on 50,000 square meters of land in Dukem, Oromia. The steel mill has an iron melting capacity of 450 tons and a daily production capacity of 600 steel bars. The facility aims to employ...
African Leadership Magazine announces winners of the African Business Leadership Awards 2022
African Leadership Magazine announces winners of the African Business Leadership Awards (ABLA) 2022. The ABLA recognizes exceptional corporate practices and achievers in Africa’s business and private sectors to present them to the world. ABLA aims to acknowledge and...
Standard Bank launches the Africa Trade Barometer
Standard Bank launches the Africa Trade Barometer, the first-ever Biannual African Trade Index. The Barometer, published twice a year, is present in 20 African markets but will initially focus on ten countries: Angola, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South...
Ethio Telecom partners with Immigration & Citizenship Service to make digital passport payments with Telebirr
The Immigration & Citizenship Service (ICS) currently serves 1500 to 2000 customers daily who require passport renewal and replacement. Telebirr’s platform has managed over 19.95 million subscribers, over 82 master agents, and thousands of agents & businesses...
Ethiopia’s Walia Ibex beats Egypt 2-0 in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers
The Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) or TotalEnergies AFCON is Africa’s most important international men’s association football tournament held every two years. It was formed in 1957 under the Confederation of African Football (CAF), in which Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia...
Marie-Alix de Putter wins the Best Woman Leader in Africa by the AIFA
Marie-Alix de Putter is a French-Cameroonian with 3 Masters II in Political Science, Project Management & Corporate communication, an Executive MBA in Corporate Management & Communication from CELSA, and a certificate in Authentic Leader Development from...
Yefikir Design – Clothing Brand
Yefikir design is a clothing line that makes use of hand woven textiles that are abundant in Ethiopia. The brand turned into a stand-alone label in 2009. Working with the Ministry of Social and Labor Affairs, the brand has advocated for child labor-free products....
RMB Morgan Stanley & Standard Bank Group receive the overall Financial Mail’s 2022 Top Analysts Awards
Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) is an investment-banking firm that joined Morgan Stanley, a global financial service firm, to offer South African corporate clients enhanced financial services. Standard Bank Group (SBG) is a financial institution providing banking and...
USAID partners with Teki Paper Bags PLC to employ over 200 deaf women
Teki Paper Bags is a private social and environmental enterprise created for and by the deaf community. It is owned and managed by young, deaf Ethiopian women. Teki comes from the Amharic word “Metekat,” meaning to replace. A name suitable for a company that produces...
Fortescue Future Industries receives a green hydrogen and ammonia production license
Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) is a global green energy & product company producing zero-emission green hydrogen from renewable resources. The Australian company is leading the green industrial revolution by developing technology solutions for...
Zipline opens its first distribution center in Nigeria
Zipline opens its first distribution center in Kaduna state, Nigeria, to start a drone delivery service. Zipline is a US-based logistics company that designs, manufactures, and operates the world’s most extensive automated delivery system. It aims to deliver critical...
SAP AppHaus Network plans to set up Africa’s first AppHaus in South Africa.
SAP AppHaus Network is a global community of multi-disciplinary teams of designers, domain experts, design thinking coaches, & enterprise architects promoting creativity, innovation, and technology. It has 22 locations with 17 partners, with Cape Town planned as...
Bethlehem Tilahun joins the Global Business Hall of Fame
The Global Business Hall of Fame, presented by JA Worldwide, is an online exhibit that features top entrepreneurs and business leaders from the last two centuries. The laureates are classified into two categories. The leader category recognizes executive-level...
Coca-Cola opens its fifth branch in Sebeta
Coca-Cola has been active in Ethiopia since 1959 in Abinet, Addis Ababa. Since then, the company has contributed to the country’s export revenue, investment, job creation, and shared opportunities for businesses & communities. It opened its fifth branch in...
Three Africans are among National Geographic Society’s 2022 Wayfinder Award Recipients
The Wayfinder Award, previously called the Emerging Explorer Award, acknowledges explorers dedicated to protecting the world through technology, research, photography, and compelling storytelling. The award recognizes people leading a new age of exploration through...
GIZ and Siemens Healthineers partner to support Ethiopia’s healthcare system
GIZ and Siemens Healthineers collaborate to support Ethiopia's healthcare system. The German Agency for International Cooperation, GIZ is a German-owned international enterprise that provides international development cooperation and education work. GIZ has been...
ADCB Egypt teams up with Temenos Payments to offer digital payments solution
Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank Group is the United Arab Emirate's third-largest bank providing various financial products and services. Temenos Payments is a platform providing a diverse payment execution and distribution. Its platform is easy to use and processes payments...
A Pan-African Exhibition opens in the Institute of Ethiopian Studies (IES) museum
Addis Ababa University's Institute of Ethiopian Studies (IES) museum opens a permanent Pan-African Exhibition. The exhibition focuses on the 1880s to the 1960s, highlighting Ethiopia's contribution to Pan-Africanism. The exhibition celebrates the strength, bravery,...
The world’s largest civilian hospital ship arrives in the port of Dakar, Senegal
The Global Mercy is the world’s largest hospital ship, part of a fleet owned by Mercy Ships. It is an organization operating since 1978 that provides medical services in regions where healthcare access is challenging. It is equipped with the latest CT technology and...
Menelik II Referral Hospital officially opens its new Dialysis Center
Menelik II Referral Hospital is Ethiopia’s first hospital known for tertiary eye care and forensic medicine. The hospital aims to provide a wide range of services by opening surgical, medical, pediatric, and maternity units in the coming years. It recently inaugurated...
Morocco’s DGSN wins the African Excellence E-Government Award
The Africa Pay & ID Expo (APIDE) is the B2B platform that merges debates and networking for all card, payment, identification, and mobile professionals in North, West, and Central Africa. The 15th edition of the APIDE award selects Morocco’s General Directorate of...
Frontieri Consult is one of Africa’s Fastest Growing Companies in 2022
Financial Times – Global & Financial Review and Statista Review name Frontieri Consult as one of Africa’s Fastest Growing Companies in 2022, the sole awardee from Ethiopia. The award reflects the innovation, achievement, strategy, progression, and inspirational...
Professor Benedict Oramah, Afreximbank President, wins the African Banker of the Year award
The African Banker Award 2022 names Professor Benedict Oramah, President of Afreximbank, African Banker of the Year! Professor Benedict is the President of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), a pan-African multilateral trade finance institution that finances...
Ethiopian Airlines ranks third among Brand Africa 100: Africa’s Best Brands 2022
Ethiopian Airlines ranks third in the overall category in Brand Africa 100: Africa’s Best Brands 2022. It also ranked second in the “Top Three African Prides” & third in the “Leading Brand Building Countries.” Brand Africa recognizes committed leaders who are the...
Africa’s Best Brands selects three companies among its most admired 2022 Brand Africa 100
Africa's Best Brands selects three African companies among its most admired 2022 Brand Africa 100. Brand Africa is an intergenerational NGO aiming to transform the continent's image by highlighting Africa's competitiveness and connecting Africa to the world. This 12th...
Awash Bank partners with Service Cops to obtain a School Suite
Awash Bank is Ethiopia’s largest private bank, with 660 branches all over Ethiopia. It was founded in 1995 with 486 founding shareholders and a paid-up capital of ETB 24.2 million. It provides several services such as digital banking, foreign currency accounts,...
GLAD, Women’s Activewear
Grind Like a Doll (GLAD) is a women’s activewear brand based in Houston, Text. It’s a brand led by an Ethiopian creative, Dolly Girma, who combines luxury and comfort by designing pocket leggings and supportive sports bras. GLAD, founded by HTX creative Dolly Girma,...
Turkana County plans to start manufacturing its medical supplies
Turkana County is one of Kenya’s largest counties located in the former Rift Valley Province of the country. It is Kenya’s poorest region but recently increased its mineral, oil, and water resources. The county announced plans to manufacture medical supplies, mainly...
Ethiopia’s Green Legacy initiative receives over 6.3 billion seedlings to plant on June 22, 2022
The Green Legacy initiative, created in 2019, plans to reduce Ethiopia’s climate change effects and deforestation. It has planted 18 billion trees in 3 years, surpassing its 4-year target of 10 billion. On June 22, 2022, the Green Legacy initiative’s tree-planting...
UN Women launches its third Strategic Plan in Uganda
UN Women is an international organization that focuses on ending violence against women and girls (VAWG) and creating Gender Equality & Women Empowerment. It collaborates with several local & international organizations and private & government sectors to...
Nardos Bekele, the first woman CEO of the African Union Development Agency-NEPAD.
The African Union Development Agency–New Partnership for Africa’s Development is the world’s only continental development agency covering 55 African countries. It is AU’s socio-economic program aiming to promote growth, end poverty, end Africa’s operation, and enhance...
Egypt’s Canal Sugar Company begins operations of the world’s largest sugar plant with investments from the UAE.
Egypt’s Canal Sugar Company begins operations of the world’s largest sugar plant with investments from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Currently, the company produces 900,000 tons of beet sugar. It aims to develop and reclaim 181,000 acres of desert land using...
Dr. Mesfin A. Lemma performs the world’s first-ever minimal invasive spine surgery with an Intelligent Imaging System.
Dr. Mesfin Aklilu Lemma is the son of a renowned Ethiopian pathobiologist, Professor Aklilu Lemma. Professor Aklilu's research focused on endod, a trailing shrub used as a soap, shampoo, poison to stun fish, and lethal to snails. He established the Institute of...
The DBE approves ETB 14 billion to train 32,000 Small and Medium Enterprises operators in 20 towns across Ethiopia.
The Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE) approves ETB 14 billion to train 32,000 Small and Medium Enterprise operators in 20 towns across Ethiopia. The five-day training is in partnership with the World Bank. It consists of the collateral-based loan disbursement and the...
ETHIOPIA TAMRIT, a national manufacturing industry movement, launches to boost the sector’s competitiveness.
The Ethiopian government has been focusing on five priority sectors to increase the country’s economy, namely mining, ICT, agriculture, tourism, and manufacturing. ETHIOPIA TAMRIT was launched to enhance the manufacturing industry and achieve success like the...
Yalemzerf Yehualaw wins the Haspa Marathon with a time of 2:17:23, the fastest ever women’s marathon debut.
Yalemzerf Yehualaw is a 22-year-old Ethiopian long-distance runner. She began running when she was 12 years old at her school where she won a 3000m race. She continued to compete and win in cross-country, track, and road in the Amhara region. Her talent was recognized...
Netflix creates a new collection ‘From Cape to Cairo’ presenting African talent and stories to the world.
Africa has a rich heritage with many stories told by 1.2 billion Africans in 54 countries who speak over 2,000 languages. Netflix is dedicated to publicizing African talent through content creation and capacity-building initiatives. Through the "From Cape to Cairo"...
Italy signs an agreement to grant €1.5 million to implement Ethiopia’s Food Safety Project.
The lack of appropriate food safety assurance systems is the central issue that prevents the country's economic development and public health safety. Several projects have been dedicated to developing and implementing Ethiopia's food safety management systems....
Rwanda receives two loans from AfDB and AGTF totaling $180 million for its energy project, the Financing for the Transmission System Reinforcement and Last Mile Connectivity project.
The Financing for the Transmission System Reinforcement and Last Mile Connectivity project receives two loans amounting to $180 million from the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Africa Growing Together Fund. AfDB sovereign window provided $140 million and its...
Dashen Bank and EagleLion System Technology introduce Dube Pay, a buy-now-pay-later payment method, to be launched soon.
Dashen Bank is the first private bank in Ethiopia, established in 1995, and one of the most reputable banks in the Ethiopian banking market. EagleLion System Technology is an Ethiopian private company delivering easy and user-friendly financial solutions to the local...
Dinaw Mengestu
All Our Names (Knopf, 2014), How To Read the Air (Riverhead, 2010), and The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (Riverhead, 2010) are Dinaw Mengestu's three books, all of which were named New York Times Notable Books (Riverhead, 2007). Mengestu is an Ethiopian native...
The Central African Republic becomes the 1st African country to accept bitcoin as an official currency.
The Central African Republic has been suffering for years due to conflict that destroyed its economy and is now one of the world's poorest countries. CAR's National Assembly passed a bill to accept bitcoin as an official currency within its borders as a last resort to...
Canada provides $73.55 million in funding for drought-stricken countries in the Horn of Africa.
The Horn of Africa has suffered from severe drought conditions due to insufficient rainfall for two years. The affected people in Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenyans rely heavily on crops and livestock for food and livelihood. To help with the drought, Canada offers $73.55...
World Economic Forum chooses 13 Africans to be part of its 2022 class of WEF’s 100 Young Global Leaders.
World Economic Forum chooses 13 Africans to be part of its 2022 class of WEF's 100 Young Global Leaders. The individuals under 40 years of age are from different categories, including the Academia/Think-tank, Arts & Culture, Business, Public Figure, Social...
Edo state government, southern Nigeria, offers over 4,000 residents a five-day free medical care services.
Edo state government, southern Nigeria, offers over 4,000 residents a five-day free medical care services. The mission is to provide high-quality medical services to all Edo citizens. The free services include treatments and surgeries for heart, kidney, eye, teeth,...
The Ministry of Health inaugurates a newly renovated cardiac care center in Tikur Anbessa Hospital.
The Ministry of Health inaugurates a newly renovated cardiac care center in Tikur Anbessa Hospital. The €2.6 mil center seeks to tackle the limited cardiology services & bring sustainable cardiac care to Ethiopia. It has an open-heart surgery operation room, a...
Kenya launches its first sign language app, assistALL, to benefit 260,000 people with hearing impairments.
Kenya launches its first sign language app, assistALL, to benefit 260,000 people with hearing impairments. It was developed by Sign Media Kenya Limited, a company dedicated to educating, informing, and entertaining in sign language with voice overrides. Sign Media...
Ketraco announces the near completion of the Kenya-Ethiopia & Kenya-Tanzania grids
The Kenyan Electricity Transmission Company (Ketraco) announce the near completion of the Kenya-Ethiopia & Kenya-Tanzania national electricity grids. Ketraco is a Kenyan state-owned electric company that plans, constructs, operates, and maintains high voltage...
CAF to launch the African Super League by August 2023
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) announces plans to launch the African Super League on August 10, 2023, in Tanzania. The CAF is the African football governing body founded in 1957 by Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan, and South Africa. CAF is one of the six FIFA...
Sylvia Mulinge becomes the new CEO of MTN Uganda
Sylvia Mulinge gets elected as the new CEO of MTN Uganda, effective October 1, 2022. Sylvia was chosen due to her 20 years of experience in strategic thinking, brand building, new business development, commercial execution, people growth & development in the...
Ethiopian Airlines opens a new 5-star hotel
The Skylight In-Terminal Hotel is the latest addition to the Addis Ababa Bole International Airport. The hotel, located in Terminal 02, was built for travelers who have long stopovers to freshen up or rest until their next flight. Guests are only allowed a one-night...
Algeria joins the Afeximbank
The People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria becomes the 52nd member state of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank). This leaves Afreximbank with three more states to achieve its mission of full continental coverage. Afreximbank recognized Algeria’s membership...
Kazana Groups Capital Business School and Kenya’s Strathmore Business School form a partnership.
Capital Business School and Strathmore Business School partner to offer executive education for Ethiopian executive managers. Strathmore Business School is Strathmore University's business school that provides Undergraduates, Master's, Doctoral, and executive...
AfDB launches the first ESG African Frontier-Currency Bond
The African Development Bank (AfDB) launches the first environmental, social, and governance (ESG) African Frontier-Currency Bond issued by a multilateral development institution. The $5.07 million (19-billion Ugandan shilling (UGX)) 2-year theme bond, due June 2024,...
Lidya Tafesse becomes 1 of the 4 referees for WAFCON Morocco 2022
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) selects Lidya Tafessea to become 1 of the 4 referees for the TotalEnergies Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) Morocco 2022. The other referees are Salima Mukansanga from Rwanda, Shamira Nabadda from Uganda, and Suavis...
Fatmata Binta wins the 2022 Basque Culinary World Prize
Sierra Leonean chef Fatmata Binta is the 1st African to win the 2022 Basque Culinary World Prize with $105,000. The Basque Culinary World Prize is an international achievement award given to a chef from anywhere in the world who has made outstanding contributions to...
Addis Motor Taxi, Ethiopia’s first motorcycle ride-hailing service, launches in Addis Ababa
Addis Motor Taxi, Ethiopia’s first motorcycle ride-hailing service, launches intending to avoid Addis Ababa’s frequent traffic jams. It is common to see motorcycles delivering food or packages, but no official ride-hailing service exists. The ride-hailing service...
Schneider Electric and St. Kizito Vocational Training Institute launch a solar-powered laboratory in Nairobi
Schneider Electric Global is a worldwide expert in energy management and automation’s digital transformation in over 100 countries. It collaborates with institutions worldwide through its initiative to improve the skills of trainers and instructors in different...
Oromia Regional State completes over 20,000 development projects
Oromia Regional State has completed over 20,000 development projects built with ETB 42.5 billion. The projects include potable drinking water, small-scale irrigation dams, hospitals, schools, and other economic & social service provider projects. The operation was...
The Ghana Post wins the World’s Best EMS Customer Care
The Ghana Post won the World's Best EMS Customer Care from the Universal Postal Union in Switzerland for the second time. The award recognizes the best Call Centers of Express Mail Service (EMS) Best Cooperative Members. The EMS Cooperative Board picks winners based...
HEINEKEN Ethiopia introduces its first malt-based non-alcoholic energy drink
BERTAT HEINEKEN introduces its first malt-based non-alcoholic energy drink, BERTAT, to Ethiopia. BERTAT is a fruity-tasting drink that provides instantaneous energy like other energy drinks while adding the benefits of malt and the nutritional benefits of vitamin B6...
Tems, wins the Best International Act at the BET Awards 2022
Nigerian singer Temilade Openiyi, aka Tems, wins the Best International Act at the BET Awards 2022. Tems is a 27-year-old singer, songwriter, and record producer who received multiple nominations and won awards like Soul Train Music Awards, NAACP Image Awards, Net...
Dashen Bank launches a $4.4 million data center
Dashen Bank launches a $4.4 million (ETB 230 million) next-generation Huawei FusionModule2000 data center solution built to Tier-III standards with integrated power, cooling, rack, cabling, & management systems. The Huawei FusionModule200 is an intelligent modular...
Greytrix Africa wins the Sage Platinum Club Partnership Award
Sage is a global market leader for technology, providing customers with the best cloud technology and support. It helps small and medium businesses (SMBs) run operations smoothly with its software that makes decision-making quicker and more accurate. It offers its...
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Innovation & Technology signs an MoU with ORION AST, a US satellite company
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Innovation & Technology (MINT) signed an MoU with ORION Applied Science and Technology, a US satellite company. ORION Applied Science and Technology provides superior engineering solutions to transform the aerospace industry. Its goal is to...
VivaTech selects three winners for the AfricaTech 2022 awards
VivaTech is Europe's largest startup & tech event, widely regarded as a powerful catalyst for business transformation, startup growth, and social innovation. Its AfricaTech Awards is a pan-African initiative recognizing and supporting the most innovative startups...
Mesfin Tassew becomes a member of IATA’s Board of Governors
Mesfin Tassew becomes a member of the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) Board of Governors. He was elected at the 78th IATA Annual General Meeting and World Transport Summit in Doha, Qatar. The IATA is a trade association representing 290 airlines in...
Kenya’s first Green Bond by Acorn Holdings Limited wins the Most Innovative Bond at the EMEA Finance 2021 Awards
Kenya's first Green Bond by Acorn Holdings Limited wins the Most Innovative Bond at the EMEA Finance 2021 Awards. EMEA Finance specializes in reporting financial & banking developments and offers corporate investments analysis, retail banking services, &...
Nehemiah Autism Center receives ETB300,000 from NISCO to support autistic children
Nyala Insurance S.C. (NISCO) donates ETB300,000 to Nehemiah Autism Center to treat and train autistic children. NISCO is one of the leading insurance companies in Ethiopia in terms of performance growth and financial position. In Ethiopia, it is estimated that 1 in 88...
Buhle Goslar joins Copia Global, a mobile commerce platform, as a board member
Copia Global is a platform that provides mobile commerce to middle and low-income African. It is one of the fastest-growing retail enterprises in Kenya and Uganda. Copia aims to enhance its platform and expand from e-commerce services to digital and financial...
Ethiopian Airlines, MoH, Children’s Heart Fund of Ethiopia, & Rotary Ethiopia sign an MoU to help children with heart disease
Ethiopian Airlines, the Ministry of Health, Children’s Heart Fund of Ethiopia, and Rotary Ethiopia sign an MoU to help children with cardiovascular disease get free medical services. Ethiopian Airlines will provide 100 children and 100 caretakers round-trip services...
Senegal plans to build Africa’s first full-service vaccine manufacturing plant
Senegal plans to build Africa’s first full-service vaccine manufacturing plant, Madiba, with $80 million funded by the Institut Pasteur de Dakar and the European Investment Bank. Madiba, short for Manufacturing in Africa for Disease Immunization and Building Autonomy,...
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Education collaborates with Microsoft to help digitize the education sector
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Education collaborates with Microsoft to help digitize the education sector with HETMIS. The Higher Educational Training Management Information System improves data collection, management, reporting, and analytics. The HETMIS enables the...
The Mastercard Wellness Pass solution to be launched in Ethiopia
Ethiopia's Ministry of Health, Mastercard, Gavi, and JSI partner to launch the Mastercard Wellness Pass solution. Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry aiming to create an inclusive digital economy globally. Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, is...
Ethiopian Airlines wins two categories in the 2022 APEX Regional Passenger Choice Awards
Ethiopian Airlines wins the 2022 APEX Regional Passenger Choice Awards for Best Entertainment and Best Cabin Service in Africa. Passengers from over one million flights rated the 2022 winners using a five-star scale across over 600 airlines. The award identifies...
Mastercard and Ecobank collaborate to digitize Africa’s agricultural value chains
Mastercard and Ecobank collaborate to digitize Africa's agricultural value chains using Mastercard's Farm Pass platform. Farm Pass is an award-winning digital platform that connects smallholder farmers to financial and agricultural ecosystems. It boosts the collective...
Sotheby’s International Realty opens its first office in Cairo, Egypt
Sotheby's International Realty is one of the world's longest-standing tastemakers with an exceptional luxury real estate company founded in 1976. The company offers property listings globally, including houses, condos, townhomes, villas, and more. It has over 1,000...
Elman Peace receives the 2020/2021 KBF African Development Prize
The King Baudouin African Development Prize honors remarkable & innovative Africans dedicated to the continent's development. The award is given every other year with a €200,000 prize to present winners with opportunities to increase visibility, promote their...
YeneGuzo, by AddisMap, is among the four winners of the DT4A Innovation Challenge
The DT4A Innovation Challenge aims to support organizations and initiatives, ranging from private companies, universities, and NGOs, contributing to improving the transportation sector through sustainable and equitable results using open data. The initiative is led by...
Professor Mitiku Haile becomes a laureate of the GCHERA World Agriculture Prize 2021.
The Global Confederation of Higher Education Associations for Agricultural and Life Sciences (GCHERA) selects Professor Mitiku Haile as one of the two laureates for the 2021 World Agriculture Prize. The GCHERA is a global network of national and regional Higher...
Rwandan Awoke Ogbo turns plastic bottles into bricks
Awoke Ogbo is a Rwandan undergraduate from the Global Challenges at Africa Leadership University based in Rwanda. He created Operation 414, a social enterprise idea that makes eco-friendly & affordable roads & pathways for Rwanda. Awoke found a way to turn...
Africa’s first International Book Fair will be held in Addis Ababa towards the end of 2022.
Tsehai Publishers is one of the few publishing companies committed to producing African literature. It publishes books that depict Ethiopia's historical, political, economic, & cultural issues and bring international knowledge. The company aims to provide...
Ethiopia’s Federal Housing Corporation officially opens the Gerji Village Construction Project
Ethiopia’s Federal Housing Corporation officially opens the Gerji Village Construction Project. The modern residential village with 16 ten-story buildings is built on 3 hectares. The village was completed in 18 months with Aluminum Formwork technology, the most...
C. Mputhia Advocates joins the International Lawyers Network
Mputhia Advocates, a Kenyan law firm, has become a member of the International Lawyers Network. The ILN is a network of high-quality, full-service law firms providing legal services for clients with international needs. It is one of the world’s leading networks of...
Tadash Steel Manufacturing Industry opens a steel mill
Tadash Steel Manufacturing Industry opens a steel mill built with ETB 5.8 billion on 50,000 square meters of land in Dukem, Oromia. The steel mill has an iron melting capacity of 450 tons and a daily production capacity of 600 steel bars. The facility aims to employ...
African Leadership Magazine announces winners of the African Business Leadership Awards 2022
African Leadership Magazine announces winners of the African Business Leadership Awards (ABLA) 2022. The ABLA recognizes exceptional corporate practices and achievers in Africa’s business and private sectors to present them to the world. ABLA aims to acknowledge and...
Standard Bank launches the Africa Trade Barometer
Standard Bank launches the Africa Trade Barometer, the first-ever Biannual African Trade Index. The Barometer, published twice a year, is present in 20 African markets but will initially focus on ten countries: Angola, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South...
Ethio Telecom partners with Immigration & Citizenship Service to make digital passport payments with Telebirr
The Immigration & Citizenship Service (ICS) currently serves 1500 to 2000 customers daily who require passport renewal and replacement. Telebirr’s platform has managed over 19.95 million subscribers, over 82 master agents, and thousands of agents & businesses...
Ethiopia’s Walia Ibex beats Egypt 2-0 in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers
The Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) or TotalEnergies AFCON is Africa’s most important international men’s association football tournament held every two years. It was formed in 1957 under the Confederation of African Football (CAF), in which Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia...
Marie-Alix de Putter wins the Best Woman Leader in Africa by the AIFA
Marie-Alix de Putter is a French-Cameroonian with 3 Masters II in Political Science, Project Management & Corporate communication, an Executive MBA in Corporate Management & Communication from CELSA, and a certificate in Authentic Leader Development from...
Yefikir Design – Clothing Brand
Yefikir design is a clothing line that makes use of hand woven textiles that are abundant in Ethiopia. The brand turned into a stand-alone label in 2009. Working with the Ministry of Social and Labor Affairs, the brand has advocated for child labor-free products....
RMB Morgan Stanley & Standard Bank Group receive the overall Financial Mail’s 2022 Top Analysts Awards
Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) is an investment-banking firm that joined Morgan Stanley, a global financial service firm, to offer South African corporate clients enhanced financial services. Standard Bank Group (SBG) is a financial institution providing banking and...
USAID partners with Teki Paper Bags PLC to employ over 200 deaf women
Teki Paper Bags is a private social and environmental enterprise created for and by the deaf community. It is owned and managed by young, deaf Ethiopian women. Teki comes from the Amharic word “Metekat,” meaning to replace. A name suitable for a company that produces...
Fortescue Future Industries receives a green hydrogen and ammonia production license
Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) is a global green energy & product company producing zero-emission green hydrogen from renewable resources. The Australian company is leading the green industrial revolution by developing technology solutions for...
Zipline opens its first distribution center in Nigeria
Zipline opens its first distribution center in Kaduna state, Nigeria, to start a drone delivery service. Zipline is a US-based logistics company that designs, manufactures, and operates the world’s most extensive automated delivery system. It aims to deliver critical...
SAP AppHaus Network plans to set up Africa’s first AppHaus in South Africa.
SAP AppHaus Network is a global community of multi-disciplinary teams of designers, domain experts, design thinking coaches, & enterprise architects promoting creativity, innovation, and technology. It has 22 locations with 17 partners, with Cape Town planned as...
Bethlehem Tilahun joins the Global Business Hall of Fame
The Global Business Hall of Fame, presented by JA Worldwide, is an online exhibit that features top entrepreneurs and business leaders from the last two centuries. The laureates are classified into two categories. The leader category recognizes executive-level...
Coca-Cola opens its fifth branch in Sebeta
Coca-Cola has been active in Ethiopia since 1959 in Abinet, Addis Ababa. Since then, the company has contributed to the country’s export revenue, investment, job creation, and shared opportunities for businesses & communities. It opened its fifth branch in...
Three Africans are among National Geographic Society’s 2022 Wayfinder Award Recipients
The Wayfinder Award, previously called the Emerging Explorer Award, acknowledges explorers dedicated to protecting the world through technology, research, photography, and compelling storytelling. The award recognizes people leading a new age of exploration through...
GIZ and Siemens Healthineers partner to support Ethiopia’s healthcare system
GIZ and Siemens Healthineers collaborate to support Ethiopia's healthcare system. The German Agency for International Cooperation, GIZ is a German-owned international enterprise that provides international development cooperation and education work. GIZ has been...
ADCB Egypt teams up with Temenos Payments to offer digital payments solution
Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank Group is the United Arab Emirate's third-largest bank providing various financial products and services. Temenos Payments is a platform providing a diverse payment execution and distribution. Its platform is easy to use and processes payments...
A Pan-African Exhibition opens in the Institute of Ethiopian Studies (IES) museum
Addis Ababa University's Institute of Ethiopian Studies (IES) museum opens a permanent Pan-African Exhibition. The exhibition focuses on the 1880s to the 1960s, highlighting Ethiopia's contribution to Pan-Africanism. The exhibition celebrates the strength, bravery,...
The world’s largest civilian hospital ship arrives in the port of Dakar, Senegal
The Global Mercy is the world’s largest hospital ship, part of a fleet owned by Mercy Ships. It is an organization operating since 1978 that provides medical services in regions where healthcare access is challenging. It is equipped with the latest CT technology and...
Menelik II Referral Hospital officially opens its new Dialysis Center
Menelik II Referral Hospital is Ethiopia’s first hospital known for tertiary eye care and forensic medicine. The hospital aims to provide a wide range of services by opening surgical, medical, pediatric, and maternity units in the coming years. It recently inaugurated...
Morocco’s DGSN wins the African Excellence E-Government Award
The Africa Pay & ID Expo (APIDE) is the B2B platform that merges debates and networking for all card, payment, identification, and mobile professionals in North, West, and Central Africa. The 15th edition of the APIDE award selects Morocco’s General Directorate of...
Frontieri Consult is one of Africa’s Fastest Growing Companies in 2022
Financial Times – Global & Financial Review and Statista Review name Frontieri Consult as one of Africa’s Fastest Growing Companies in 2022, the sole awardee from Ethiopia. The award reflects the innovation, achievement, strategy, progression, and inspirational...
Professor Benedict Oramah, Afreximbank President, wins the African Banker of the Year award
The African Banker Award 2022 names Professor Benedict Oramah, President of Afreximbank, African Banker of the Year! Professor Benedict is the President of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), a pan-African multilateral trade finance institution that finances...
Ethiopian Airlines ranks third among Brand Africa 100: Africa’s Best Brands 2022
Ethiopian Airlines ranks third in the overall category in Brand Africa 100: Africa’s Best Brands 2022. It also ranked second in the “Top Three African Prides” & third in the “Leading Brand Building Countries.” Brand Africa recognizes committed leaders who are the...
Africa’s Best Brands selects three companies among its most admired 2022 Brand Africa 100
Africa's Best Brands selects three African companies among its most admired 2022 Brand Africa 100. Brand Africa is an intergenerational NGO aiming to transform the continent's image by highlighting Africa's competitiveness and connecting Africa to the world. This 12th...
Awash Bank partners with Service Cops to obtain a School Suite
Awash Bank is Ethiopia’s largest private bank, with 660 branches all over Ethiopia. It was founded in 1995 with 486 founding shareholders and a paid-up capital of ETB 24.2 million. It provides several services such as digital banking, foreign currency accounts,...
GLAD, Women’s Activewear
Grind Like a Doll (GLAD) is a women’s activewear brand based in Houston, Text. It’s a brand led by an Ethiopian creative, Dolly Girma, who combines luxury and comfort by designing pocket leggings and supportive sports bras. GLAD, founded by HTX creative Dolly Girma,...
Turkana County plans to start manufacturing its medical supplies
Turkana County is one of Kenya’s largest counties located in the former Rift Valley Province of the country. It is Kenya’s poorest region but recently increased its mineral, oil, and water resources. The county announced plans to manufacture medical supplies, mainly...
Ethiopia’s Green Legacy initiative receives over 6.3 billion seedlings to plant on June 22, 2022
The Green Legacy initiative, created in 2019, plans to reduce Ethiopia’s climate change effects and deforestation. It has planted 18 billion trees in 3 years, surpassing its 4-year target of 10 billion. On June 22, 2022, the Green Legacy initiative’s tree-planting...
UN Women launches its third Strategic Plan in Uganda
UN Women is an international organization that focuses on ending violence against women and girls (VAWG) and creating Gender Equality & Women Empowerment. It collaborates with several local & international organizations and private & government sectors to...
Nardos Bekele, the first woman CEO of the African Union Development Agency-NEPAD.
The African Union Development Agency–New Partnership for Africa’s Development is the world’s only continental development agency covering 55 African countries. It is AU’s socio-economic program aiming to promote growth, end poverty, end Africa’s operation, and enhance...
Egypt’s Canal Sugar Company begins operations of the world’s largest sugar plant with investments from the UAE.
Egypt’s Canal Sugar Company begins operations of the world’s largest sugar plant with investments from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Currently, the company produces 900,000 tons of beet sugar. It aims to develop and reclaim 181,000 acres of desert land using...
Dr. Mesfin A. Lemma performs the world’s first-ever minimal invasive spine surgery with an Intelligent Imaging System.
Dr. Mesfin Aklilu Lemma is the son of a renowned Ethiopian pathobiologist, Professor Aklilu Lemma. Professor Aklilu's research focused on endod, a trailing shrub used as a soap, shampoo, poison to stun fish, and lethal to snails. He established the Institute of...
The DBE approves ETB 14 billion to train 32,000 Small and Medium Enterprises operators in 20 towns across Ethiopia.
The Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE) approves ETB 14 billion to train 32,000 Small and Medium Enterprise operators in 20 towns across Ethiopia. The five-day training is in partnership with the World Bank. It consists of the collateral-based loan disbursement and the...
ETHIOPIA TAMRIT, a national manufacturing industry movement, launches to boost the sector’s competitiveness.
The Ethiopian government has been focusing on five priority sectors to increase the country’s economy, namely mining, ICT, agriculture, tourism, and manufacturing. ETHIOPIA TAMRIT was launched to enhance the manufacturing industry and achieve success like the...
Yalemzerf Yehualaw wins the Haspa Marathon with a time of 2:17:23, the fastest ever women’s marathon debut.
Yalemzerf Yehualaw is a 22-year-old Ethiopian long-distance runner. She began running when she was 12 years old at her school where she won a 3000m race. She continued to compete and win in cross-country, track, and road in the Amhara region. Her talent was recognized...
Netflix creates a new collection ‘From Cape to Cairo’ presenting African talent and stories to the world.
Africa has a rich heritage with many stories told by 1.2 billion Africans in 54 countries who speak over 2,000 languages. Netflix is dedicated to publicizing African talent through content creation and capacity-building initiatives. Through the "From Cape to Cairo"...
Italy signs an agreement to grant €1.5 million to implement Ethiopia’s Food Safety Project.
The lack of appropriate food safety assurance systems is the central issue that prevents the country's economic development and public health safety. Several projects have been dedicated to developing and implementing Ethiopia's food safety management systems....
Rwanda receives two loans from AfDB and AGTF totaling $180 million for its energy project, the Financing for the Transmission System Reinforcement and Last Mile Connectivity project.
The Financing for the Transmission System Reinforcement and Last Mile Connectivity project receives two loans amounting to $180 million from the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Africa Growing Together Fund. AfDB sovereign window provided $140 million and its...
Dashen Bank and EagleLion System Technology introduce Dube Pay, a buy-now-pay-later payment method, to be launched soon.
Dashen Bank is the first private bank in Ethiopia, established in 1995, and one of the most reputable banks in the Ethiopian banking market. EagleLion System Technology is an Ethiopian private company delivering easy and user-friendly financial solutions to the local...
Dinaw Mengestu
All Our Names (Knopf, 2014), How To Read the Air (Riverhead, 2010), and The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (Riverhead, 2010) are Dinaw Mengestu's three books, all of which were named New York Times Notable Books (Riverhead, 2007). Mengestu is an Ethiopian native...
The Central African Republic becomes the 1st African country to accept bitcoin as an official currency.
The Central African Republic has been suffering for years due to conflict that destroyed its economy and is now one of the world's poorest countries. CAR's National Assembly passed a bill to accept bitcoin as an official currency within its borders as a last resort to...
Canada provides $73.55 million in funding for drought-stricken countries in the Horn of Africa.
The Horn of Africa has suffered from severe drought conditions due to insufficient rainfall for two years. The affected people in Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenyans rely heavily on crops and livestock for food and livelihood. To help with the drought, Canada offers $73.55...
World Economic Forum chooses 13 Africans to be part of its 2022 class of WEF’s 100 Young Global Leaders.
World Economic Forum chooses 13 Africans to be part of its 2022 class of WEF's 100 Young Global Leaders. The individuals under 40 years of age are from different categories, including the Academia/Think-tank, Arts & Culture, Business, Public Figure, Social...
Edo state government, southern Nigeria, offers over 4,000 residents a five-day free medical care services.
Edo state government, southern Nigeria, offers over 4,000 residents a five-day free medical care services. The mission is to provide high-quality medical services to all Edo citizens. The free services include treatments and surgeries for heart, kidney, eye, teeth,...
The Ministry of Health inaugurates a newly renovated cardiac care center in Tikur Anbessa Hospital.
The Ministry of Health inaugurates a newly renovated cardiac care center in Tikur Anbessa Hospital. The €2.6 mil center seeks to tackle the limited cardiology services & bring sustainable cardiac care to Ethiopia. It has an open-heart surgery operation room, a...
Kenya launches its first sign language app, assistALL, to benefit 260,000 people with hearing impairments.
Kenya launches its first sign language app, assistALL, to benefit 260,000 people with hearing impairments. It was developed by Sign Media Kenya Limited, a company dedicated to educating, informing, and entertaining in sign language with voice overrides. Sign Media...
Ketraco announces the near completion of the Kenya-Ethiopia & Kenya-Tanzania grids
The Kenyan Electricity Transmission Company (Ketraco) announce the near completion of the Kenya-Ethiopia & Kenya-Tanzania national electricity grids. Ketraco is a Kenyan state-owned electric company that plans, constructs, operates, and maintains high voltage...
CAF to launch the African Super League by August 2023
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) announces plans to launch the African Super League on August 10, 2023, in Tanzania. The CAF is the African football governing body founded in 1957 by Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan, and South Africa. CAF is one of the six FIFA...
Sylvia Mulinge becomes the new CEO of MTN Uganda
Sylvia Mulinge gets elected as the new CEO of MTN Uganda, effective October 1, 2022. Sylvia was chosen due to her 20 years of experience in strategic thinking, brand building, new business development, commercial execution, people growth & development in the...
Ethiopian Airlines opens a new 5-star hotel
The Skylight In-Terminal Hotel is the latest addition to the Addis Ababa Bole International Airport. The hotel, located in Terminal 02, was built for travelers who have long stopovers to freshen up or rest until their next flight. Guests are only allowed a one-night...
Algeria joins the Afeximbank
The People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria becomes the 52nd member state of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank). This leaves Afreximbank with three more states to achieve its mission of full continental coverage. Afreximbank recognized Algeria’s membership...
Kazana Groups Capital Business School and Kenya’s Strathmore Business School form a partnership.
Capital Business School and Strathmore Business School partner to offer executive education for Ethiopian executive managers. Strathmore Business School is Strathmore University's business school that provides Undergraduates, Master's, Doctoral, and executive...
AfDB launches the first ESG African Frontier-Currency Bond
The African Development Bank (AfDB) launches the first environmental, social, and governance (ESG) African Frontier-Currency Bond issued by a multilateral development institution. The $5.07 million (19-billion Ugandan shilling (UGX)) 2-year theme bond, due June 2024,...
Lidya Tafesse becomes 1 of the 4 referees for WAFCON Morocco 2022
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) selects Lidya Tafessea to become 1 of the 4 referees for the TotalEnergies Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) Morocco 2022. The other referees are Salima Mukansanga from Rwanda, Shamira Nabadda from Uganda, and Suavis...
Fatmata Binta wins the 2022 Basque Culinary World Prize
Sierra Leonean chef Fatmata Binta is the 1st African to win the 2022 Basque Culinary World Prize with $105,000. The Basque Culinary World Prize is an international achievement award given to a chef from anywhere in the world who has made outstanding contributions to...
Addis Motor Taxi, Ethiopia’s first motorcycle ride-hailing service, launches in Addis Ababa
Addis Motor Taxi, Ethiopia’s first motorcycle ride-hailing service, launches intending to avoid Addis Ababa’s frequent traffic jams. It is common to see motorcycles delivering food or packages, but no official ride-hailing service exists. The ride-hailing service...
Schneider Electric and St. Kizito Vocational Training Institute launch a solar-powered laboratory in Nairobi
Schneider Electric Global is a worldwide expert in energy management and automation’s digital transformation in over 100 countries. It collaborates with institutions worldwide through its initiative to improve the skills of trainers and instructors in different...
Oromia Regional State completes over 20,000 development projects
Oromia Regional State has completed over 20,000 development projects built with ETB 42.5 billion. The projects include potable drinking water, small-scale irrigation dams, hospitals, schools, and other economic & social service provider projects. The operation was...
The Ghana Post wins the World’s Best EMS Customer Care
The Ghana Post won the World's Best EMS Customer Care from the Universal Postal Union in Switzerland for the second time. The award recognizes the best Call Centers of Express Mail Service (EMS) Best Cooperative Members. The EMS Cooperative Board picks winners based...
HEINEKEN Ethiopia introduces its first malt-based non-alcoholic energy drink
BERTAT HEINEKEN introduces its first malt-based non-alcoholic energy drink, BERTAT, to Ethiopia. BERTAT is a fruity-tasting drink that provides instantaneous energy like other energy drinks while adding the benefits of malt and the nutritional benefits of vitamin B6...
Tems, wins the Best International Act at the BET Awards 2022
Nigerian singer Temilade Openiyi, aka Tems, wins the Best International Act at the BET Awards 2022. Tems is a 27-year-old singer, songwriter, and record producer who received multiple nominations and won awards like Soul Train Music Awards, NAACP Image Awards, Net...
Dashen Bank launches a $4.4 million data center
Dashen Bank launches a $4.4 million (ETB 230 million) next-generation Huawei FusionModule2000 data center solution built to Tier-III standards with integrated power, cooling, rack, cabling, & management systems. The Huawei FusionModule200 is an intelligent modular...
Greytrix Africa wins the Sage Platinum Club Partnership Award
Sage is a global market leader for technology, providing customers with the best cloud technology and support. It helps small and medium businesses (SMBs) run operations smoothly with its software that makes decision-making quicker and more accurate. It offers its...
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Innovation & Technology signs an MoU with ORION AST, a US satellite company
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Innovation & Technology (MINT) signed an MoU with ORION Applied Science and Technology, a US satellite company. ORION Applied Science and Technology provides superior engineering solutions to transform the aerospace industry. Its goal is to...
VivaTech selects three winners for the AfricaTech 2022 awards
VivaTech is Europe's largest startup & tech event, widely regarded as a powerful catalyst for business transformation, startup growth, and social innovation. Its AfricaTech Awards is a pan-African initiative recognizing and supporting the most innovative startups...
Mesfin Tassew becomes a member of IATA’s Board of Governors
Mesfin Tassew becomes a member of the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) Board of Governors. He was elected at the 78th IATA Annual General Meeting and World Transport Summit in Doha, Qatar. The IATA is a trade association representing 290 airlines in...
Kenya’s first Green Bond by Acorn Holdings Limited wins the Most Innovative Bond at the EMEA Finance 2021 Awards
Kenya's first Green Bond by Acorn Holdings Limited wins the Most Innovative Bond at the EMEA Finance 2021 Awards. EMEA Finance specializes in reporting financial & banking developments and offers corporate investments analysis, retail banking services, &...
Nehemiah Autism Center receives ETB300,000 from NISCO to support autistic children
Nyala Insurance S.C. (NISCO) donates ETB300,000 to Nehemiah Autism Center to treat and train autistic children. NISCO is one of the leading insurance companies in Ethiopia in terms of performance growth and financial position. In Ethiopia, it is estimated that 1 in 88...
Buhle Goslar joins Copia Global, a mobile commerce platform, as a board member
Copia Global is a platform that provides mobile commerce to middle and low-income African. It is one of the fastest-growing retail enterprises in Kenya and Uganda. Copia aims to enhance its platform and expand from e-commerce services to digital and financial...
Ethiopian Airlines, MoH, Children’s Heart Fund of Ethiopia, & Rotary Ethiopia sign an MoU to help children with heart disease
Ethiopian Airlines, the Ministry of Health, Children’s Heart Fund of Ethiopia, and Rotary Ethiopia sign an MoU to help children with cardiovascular disease get free medical services. Ethiopian Airlines will provide 100 children and 100 caretakers round-trip services...
Senegal plans to build Africa’s first full-service vaccine manufacturing plant
Senegal plans to build Africa’s first full-service vaccine manufacturing plant, Madiba, with $80 million funded by the Institut Pasteur de Dakar and the European Investment Bank. Madiba, short for Manufacturing in Africa for Disease Immunization and Building Autonomy,...
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Education collaborates with Microsoft to help digitize the education sector
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Education collaborates with Microsoft to help digitize the education sector with HETMIS. The Higher Educational Training Management Information System improves data collection, management, reporting, and analytics. The HETMIS enables the...
The Mastercard Wellness Pass solution to be launched in Ethiopia
Ethiopia's Ministry of Health, Mastercard, Gavi, and JSI partner to launch the Mastercard Wellness Pass solution. Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry aiming to create an inclusive digital economy globally. Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, is...
Ethiopian Airlines wins two categories in the 2022 APEX Regional Passenger Choice Awards
Ethiopian Airlines wins the 2022 APEX Regional Passenger Choice Awards for Best Entertainment and Best Cabin Service in Africa. Passengers from over one million flights rated the 2022 winners using a five-star scale across over 600 airlines. The award identifies...
Mastercard and Ecobank collaborate to digitize Africa’s agricultural value chains
Mastercard and Ecobank collaborate to digitize Africa's agricultural value chains using Mastercard's Farm Pass platform. Farm Pass is an award-winning digital platform that connects smallholder farmers to financial and agricultural ecosystems. It boosts the collective...
Sotheby’s International Realty opens its first office in Cairo, Egypt
Sotheby's International Realty is one of the world's longest-standing tastemakers with an exceptional luxury real estate company founded in 1976. The company offers property listings globally, including houses, condos, townhomes, villas, and more. It has over 1,000...
Elman Peace receives the 2020/2021 KBF African Development Prize
The King Baudouin African Development Prize honors remarkable & innovative Africans dedicated to the continent's development. The award is given every other year with a €200,000 prize to present winners with opportunities to increase visibility, promote their...
YeneGuzo, by AddisMap, is among the four winners of the DT4A Innovation Challenge
The DT4A Innovation Challenge aims to support organizations and initiatives, ranging from private companies, universities, and NGOs, contributing to improving the transportation sector through sustainable and equitable results using open data. The initiative is led by...
Professor Mitiku Haile becomes a laureate of the GCHERA World Agriculture Prize 2021.
The Global Confederation of Higher Education Associations for Agricultural and Life Sciences (GCHERA) selects Professor Mitiku Haile as one of the two laureates for the 2021 World Agriculture Prize. The GCHERA is a global network of national and regional Higher...
Rwandan Awoke Ogbo turns plastic bottles into bricks
Awoke Ogbo is a Rwandan undergraduate from the Global Challenges at Africa Leadership University based in Rwanda. He created Operation 414, a social enterprise idea that makes eco-friendly & affordable roads & pathways for Rwanda. Awoke found a way to turn...
Africa’s first International Book Fair will be held in Addis Ababa towards the end of 2022.
Tsehai Publishers is one of the few publishing companies committed to producing African literature. It publishes books that depict Ethiopia's historical, political, economic, & cultural issues and bring international knowledge. The company aims to provide...
Ethiopia’s Federal Housing Corporation officially opens the Gerji Village Construction Project
Ethiopia’s Federal Housing Corporation officially opens the Gerji Village Construction Project. The modern residential village with 16 ten-story buildings is built on 3 hectares. The village was completed in 18 months with Aluminum Formwork technology, the most...
C. Mputhia Advocates joins the International Lawyers Network
Mputhia Advocates, a Kenyan law firm, has become a member of the International Lawyers Network. The ILN is a network of high-quality, full-service law firms providing legal services for clients with international needs. It is one of the world’s leading networks of...
Tadash Steel Manufacturing Industry opens a steel mill
Tadash Steel Manufacturing Industry opens a steel mill built with ETB 5.8 billion on 50,000 square meters of land in Dukem, Oromia. The steel mill has an iron melting capacity of 450 tons and a daily production capacity of 600 steel bars. The facility aims to employ...
African Leadership Magazine announces winners of the African Business Leadership Awards 2022
African Leadership Magazine announces winners of the African Business Leadership Awards (ABLA) 2022. The ABLA recognizes exceptional corporate practices and achievers in Africa’s business and private sectors to present them to the world. ABLA aims to acknowledge and...
Standard Bank launches the Africa Trade Barometer
Standard Bank launches the Africa Trade Barometer, the first-ever Biannual African Trade Index. The Barometer, published twice a year, is present in 20 African markets but will initially focus on ten countries: Angola, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South...
Ethio Telecom partners with Immigration & Citizenship Service to make digital passport payments with Telebirr
The Immigration & Citizenship Service (ICS) currently serves 1500 to 2000 customers daily who require passport renewal and replacement. Telebirr’s platform has managed over 19.95 million subscribers, over 82 master agents, and thousands of agents & businesses...
Ethiopia’s Walia Ibex beats Egypt 2-0 in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers
The Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) or TotalEnergies AFCON is Africa’s most important international men’s association football tournament held every two years. It was formed in 1957 under the Confederation of African Football (CAF), in which Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia...
Marie-Alix de Putter wins the Best Woman Leader in Africa by the AIFA
Marie-Alix de Putter is a French-Cameroonian with 3 Masters II in Political Science, Project Management & Corporate communication, an Executive MBA in Corporate Management & Communication from CELSA, and a certificate in Authentic Leader Development from...
Yefikir Design – Clothing Brand
Yefikir design is a clothing line that makes use of hand woven textiles that are abundant in Ethiopia. The brand turned into a stand-alone label in 2009. Working with the Ministry of Social and Labor Affairs, the brand has advocated for child labor-free products....
RMB Morgan Stanley & Standard Bank Group receive the overall Financial Mail’s 2022 Top Analysts Awards
Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) is an investment-banking firm that joined Morgan Stanley, a global financial service firm, to offer South African corporate clients enhanced financial services. Standard Bank Group (SBG) is a financial institution providing banking and...
USAID partners with Teki Paper Bags PLC to employ over 200 deaf women
Teki Paper Bags is a private social and environmental enterprise created for and by the deaf community. It is owned and managed by young, deaf Ethiopian women. Teki comes from the Amharic word “Metekat,” meaning to replace. A name suitable for a company that produces...
Fortescue Future Industries receives a green hydrogen and ammonia production license
Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) is a global green energy & product company producing zero-emission green hydrogen from renewable resources. The Australian company is leading the green industrial revolution by developing technology solutions for...
Zipline opens its first distribution center in Nigeria
Zipline opens its first distribution center in Kaduna state, Nigeria, to start a drone delivery service. Zipline is a US-based logistics company that designs, manufactures, and operates the world’s most extensive automated delivery system. It aims to deliver critical...
SAP AppHaus Network plans to set up Africa’s first AppHaus in South Africa.
SAP AppHaus Network is a global community of multi-disciplinary teams of designers, domain experts, design thinking coaches, & enterprise architects promoting creativity, innovation, and technology. It has 22 locations with 17 partners, with Cape Town planned as...
Bethlehem Tilahun joins the Global Business Hall of Fame
The Global Business Hall of Fame, presented by JA Worldwide, is an online exhibit that features top entrepreneurs and business leaders from the last two centuries. The laureates are classified into two categories. The leader category recognizes executive-level...
Coca-Cola opens its fifth branch in Sebeta
Coca-Cola has been active in Ethiopia since 1959 in Abinet, Addis Ababa. Since then, the company has contributed to the country’s export revenue, investment, job creation, and shared opportunities for businesses & communities. It opened its fifth branch in...
Three Africans are among National Geographic Society’s 2022 Wayfinder Award Recipients
The Wayfinder Award, previously called the Emerging Explorer Award, acknowledges explorers dedicated to protecting the world through technology, research, photography, and compelling storytelling. The award recognizes people leading a new age of exploration through...
GIZ and Siemens Healthineers partner to support Ethiopia’s healthcare system
GIZ and Siemens Healthineers collaborate to support Ethiopia's healthcare system. The German Agency for International Cooperation, GIZ is a German-owned international enterprise that provides international development cooperation and education work. GIZ has been...
ADCB Egypt teams up with Temenos Payments to offer digital payments solution
Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank Group is the United Arab Emirate's third-largest bank providing various financial products and services. Temenos Payments is a platform providing a diverse payment execution and distribution. Its platform is easy to use and processes payments...
A Pan-African Exhibition opens in the Institute of Ethiopian Studies (IES) museum
Addis Ababa University's Institute of Ethiopian Studies (IES) museum opens a permanent Pan-African Exhibition. The exhibition focuses on the 1880s to the 1960s, highlighting Ethiopia's contribution to Pan-Africanism. The exhibition celebrates the strength, bravery,...
The world’s largest civilian hospital ship arrives in the port of Dakar, Senegal
The Global Mercy is the world’s largest hospital ship, part of a fleet owned by Mercy Ships. It is an organization operating since 1978 that provides medical services in regions where healthcare access is challenging. It is equipped with the latest CT technology and...
Menelik II Referral Hospital officially opens its new Dialysis Center
Menelik II Referral Hospital is Ethiopia’s first hospital known for tertiary eye care and forensic medicine. The hospital aims to provide a wide range of services by opening surgical, medical, pediatric, and maternity units in the coming years. It recently inaugurated...
Morocco’s DGSN wins the African Excellence E-Government Award
The Africa Pay & ID Expo (APIDE) is the B2B platform that merges debates and networking for all card, payment, identification, and mobile professionals in North, West, and Central Africa. The 15th edition of the APIDE award selects Morocco’s General Directorate of...
Frontieri Consult is one of Africa’s Fastest Growing Companies in 2022
Financial Times – Global & Financial Review and Statista Review name Frontieri Consult as one of Africa’s Fastest Growing Companies in 2022, the sole awardee from Ethiopia. The award reflects the innovation, achievement, strategy, progression, and inspirational...
Professor Benedict Oramah, Afreximbank President, wins the African Banker of the Year award
The African Banker Award 2022 names Professor Benedict Oramah, President of Afreximbank, African Banker of the Year! Professor Benedict is the President of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), a pan-African multilateral trade finance institution that finances...
Ethiopian Airlines ranks third among Brand Africa 100: Africa’s Best Brands 2022
Ethiopian Airlines ranks third in the overall category in Brand Africa 100: Africa’s Best Brands 2022. It also ranked second in the “Top Three African Prides” & third in the “Leading Brand Building Countries.” Brand Africa recognizes committed leaders who are the...
Africa’s Best Brands selects three companies among its most admired 2022 Brand Africa 100
Africa's Best Brands selects three African companies among its most admired 2022 Brand Africa 100. Brand Africa is an intergenerational NGO aiming to transform the continent's image by highlighting Africa's competitiveness and connecting Africa to the world. This 12th...
Awash Bank partners with Service Cops to obtain a School Suite
Awash Bank is Ethiopia’s largest private bank, with 660 branches all over Ethiopia. It was founded in 1995 with 486 founding shareholders and a paid-up capital of ETB 24.2 million. It provides several services such as digital banking, foreign currency accounts,...
GLAD, Women’s Activewear
Grind Like a Doll (GLAD) is a women’s activewear brand based in Houston, Text. It’s a brand led by an Ethiopian creative, Dolly Girma, who combines luxury and comfort by designing pocket leggings and supportive sports bras. GLAD, founded by HTX creative Dolly Girma,...
Turkana County plans to start manufacturing its medical supplies
Turkana County is one of Kenya’s largest counties located in the former Rift Valley Province of the country. It is Kenya’s poorest region but recently increased its mineral, oil, and water resources. The county announced plans to manufacture medical supplies, mainly...
Ethiopia’s Green Legacy initiative receives over 6.3 billion seedlings to plant on June 22, 2022
The Green Legacy initiative, created in 2019, plans to reduce Ethiopia’s climate change effects and deforestation. It has planted 18 billion trees in 3 years, surpassing its 4-year target of 10 billion. On June 22, 2022, the Green Legacy initiative’s tree-planting...
UN Women launches its third Strategic Plan in Uganda
UN Women is an international organization that focuses on ending violence against women and girls (VAWG) and creating Gender Equality & Women Empowerment. It collaborates with several local & international organizations and private & government sectors to...
Nardos Bekele, the first woman CEO of the African Union Development Agency-NEPAD.
The African Union Development Agency–New Partnership for Africa’s Development is the world’s only continental development agency covering 55 African countries. It is AU’s socio-economic program aiming to promote growth, end poverty, end Africa’s operation, and enhance...
Egypt’s Canal Sugar Company begins operations of the world’s largest sugar plant with investments from the UAE.
Egypt’s Canal Sugar Company begins operations of the world’s largest sugar plant with investments from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Currently, the company produces 900,000 tons of beet sugar. It aims to develop and reclaim 181,000 acres of desert land using...
Dr. Mesfin A. Lemma performs the world’s first-ever minimal invasive spine surgery with an Intelligent Imaging System.
Dr. Mesfin Aklilu Lemma is the son of a renowned Ethiopian pathobiologist, Professor Aklilu Lemma. Professor Aklilu's research focused on endod, a trailing shrub used as a soap, shampoo, poison to stun fish, and lethal to snails. He established the Institute of...
The DBE approves ETB 14 billion to train 32,000 Small and Medium Enterprises operators in 20 towns across Ethiopia.
The Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE) approves ETB 14 billion to train 32,000 Small and Medium Enterprise operators in 20 towns across Ethiopia. The five-day training is in partnership with the World Bank. It consists of the collateral-based loan disbursement and the...
ETHIOPIA TAMRIT, a national manufacturing industry movement, launches to boost the sector’s competitiveness.
The Ethiopian government has been focusing on five priority sectors to increase the country’s economy, namely mining, ICT, agriculture, tourism, and manufacturing. ETHIOPIA TAMRIT was launched to enhance the manufacturing industry and achieve success like the...
Yalemzerf Yehualaw wins the Haspa Marathon with a time of 2:17:23, the fastest ever women’s marathon debut.
Yalemzerf Yehualaw is a 22-year-old Ethiopian long-distance runner. She began running when she was 12 years old at her school where she won a 3000m race. She continued to compete and win in cross-country, track, and road in the Amhara region. Her talent was recognized...
Netflix creates a new collection ‘From Cape to Cairo’ presenting African talent and stories to the world.
Africa has a rich heritage with many stories told by 1.2 billion Africans in 54 countries who speak over 2,000 languages. Netflix is dedicated to publicizing African talent through content creation and capacity-building initiatives. Through the "From Cape to Cairo"...
Italy signs an agreement to grant €1.5 million to implement Ethiopia’s Food Safety Project.
The lack of appropriate food safety assurance systems is the central issue that prevents the country's economic development and public health safety. Several projects have been dedicated to developing and implementing Ethiopia's food safety management systems....
Rwanda receives two loans from AfDB and AGTF totaling $180 million for its energy project, the Financing for the Transmission System Reinforcement and Last Mile Connectivity project.
The Financing for the Transmission System Reinforcement and Last Mile Connectivity project receives two loans amounting to $180 million from the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Africa Growing Together Fund. AfDB sovereign window provided $140 million and its...
Dashen Bank and EagleLion System Technology introduce Dube Pay, a buy-now-pay-later payment method, to be launched soon.
Dashen Bank is the first private bank in Ethiopia, established in 1995, and one of the most reputable banks in the Ethiopian banking market. EagleLion System Technology is an Ethiopian private company delivering easy and user-friendly financial solutions to the local...
Dinaw Mengestu
All Our Names (Knopf, 2014), How To Read the Air (Riverhead, 2010), and The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (Riverhead, 2010) are Dinaw Mengestu's three books, all of which were named New York Times Notable Books (Riverhead, 2007). Mengestu is an Ethiopian native...
The Central African Republic becomes the 1st African country to accept bitcoin as an official currency.
The Central African Republic has been suffering for years due to conflict that destroyed its economy and is now one of the world's poorest countries. CAR's National Assembly passed a bill to accept bitcoin as an official currency within its borders as a last resort to...
Canada provides $73.55 million in funding for drought-stricken countries in the Horn of Africa.
The Horn of Africa has suffered from severe drought conditions due to insufficient rainfall for two years. The affected people in Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenyans rely heavily on crops and livestock for food and livelihood. To help with the drought, Canada offers $73.55...
World Economic Forum chooses 13 Africans to be part of its 2022 class of WEF’s 100 Young Global Leaders.
World Economic Forum chooses 13 Africans to be part of its 2022 class of WEF's 100 Young Global Leaders. The individuals under 40 years of age are from different categories, including the Academia/Think-tank, Arts & Culture, Business, Public Figure, Social...
Edo state government, southern Nigeria, offers over 4,000 residents a five-day free medical care services.
Edo state government, southern Nigeria, offers over 4,000 residents a five-day free medical care services. The mission is to provide high-quality medical services to all Edo citizens. The free services include treatments and surgeries for heart, kidney, eye, teeth,...
The Ministry of Health inaugurates a newly renovated cardiac care center in Tikur Anbessa Hospital.
The Ministry of Health inaugurates a newly renovated cardiac care center in Tikur Anbessa Hospital. The €2.6 mil center seeks to tackle the limited cardiology services & bring sustainable cardiac care to Ethiopia. It has an open-heart surgery operation room, a...
Kenya launches its first sign language app, assistALL, to benefit 260,000 people with hearing impairments.
Kenya launches its first sign language app, assistALL, to benefit 260,000 people with hearing impairments. It was developed by Sign Media Kenya Limited, a company dedicated to educating, informing, and entertaining in sign language with voice overrides. Sign Media...
Ketraco announces the near completion of the Kenya-Ethiopia & Kenya-Tanzania grids
The Kenyan Electricity Transmission Company (Ketraco) announce the near completion of the Kenya-Ethiopia & Kenya-Tanzania national electricity grids. Ketraco is a Kenyan state-owned electric company that plans, constructs, operates, and maintains high voltage...
CAF to launch the African Super League by August 2023
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) announces plans to launch the African Super League on August 10, 2023, in Tanzania. The CAF is the African football governing body founded in 1957 by Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan, and South Africa. CAF is one of the six FIFA...
Sylvia Mulinge becomes the new CEO of MTN Uganda
Sylvia Mulinge gets elected as the new CEO of MTN Uganda, effective October 1, 2022. Sylvia was chosen due to her 20 years of experience in strategic thinking, brand building, new business development, commercial execution, people growth & development in the...
Ethiopian Airlines opens a new 5-star hotel
The Skylight In-Terminal Hotel is the latest addition to the Addis Ababa Bole International Airport. The hotel, located in Terminal 02, was built for travelers who have long stopovers to freshen up or rest until their next flight. Guests are only allowed a one-night...
Algeria joins the Afeximbank
The People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria becomes the 52nd member state of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank). This leaves Afreximbank with three more states to achieve its mission of full continental coverage. Afreximbank recognized Algeria’s membership...
Kazana Groups Capital Business School and Kenya’s Strathmore Business School form a partnership.
Capital Business School and Strathmore Business School partner to offer executive education for Ethiopian executive managers. Strathmore Business School is Strathmore University's business school that provides Undergraduates, Master's, Doctoral, and executive...
AfDB launches the first ESG African Frontier-Currency Bond
The African Development Bank (AfDB) launches the first environmental, social, and governance (ESG) African Frontier-Currency Bond issued by a multilateral development institution. The $5.07 million (19-billion Ugandan shilling (UGX)) 2-year theme bond, due June 2024,...
Lidya Tafesse becomes 1 of the 4 referees for WAFCON Morocco 2022
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) selects Lidya Tafessea to become 1 of the 4 referees for the TotalEnergies Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) Morocco 2022. The other referees are Salima Mukansanga from Rwanda, Shamira Nabadda from Uganda, and Suavis...
Fatmata Binta wins the 2022 Basque Culinary World Prize
Sierra Leonean chef Fatmata Binta is the 1st African to win the 2022 Basque Culinary World Prize with $105,000. The Basque Culinary World Prize is an international achievement award given to a chef from anywhere in the world who has made outstanding contributions to...
Addis Motor Taxi, Ethiopia’s first motorcycle ride-hailing service, launches in Addis Ababa
Addis Motor Taxi, Ethiopia’s first motorcycle ride-hailing service, launches intending to avoid Addis Ababa’s frequent traffic jams. It is common to see motorcycles delivering food or packages, but no official ride-hailing service exists. The ride-hailing service...
Schneider Electric and St. Kizito Vocational Training Institute launch a solar-powered laboratory in Nairobi
Schneider Electric Global is a worldwide expert in energy management and automation’s digital transformation in over 100 countries. It collaborates with institutions worldwide through its initiative to improve the skills of trainers and instructors in different...
Oromia Regional State completes over 20,000 development projects
Oromia Regional State has completed over 20,000 development projects built with ETB 42.5 billion. The projects include potable drinking water, small-scale irrigation dams, hospitals, schools, and other economic & social service provider projects. The operation was...
The Ghana Post wins the World’s Best EMS Customer Care
The Ghana Post won the World's Best EMS Customer Care from the Universal Postal Union in Switzerland for the second time. The award recognizes the best Call Centers of Express Mail Service (EMS) Best Cooperative Members. The EMS Cooperative Board picks winners based...
HEINEKEN Ethiopia introduces its first malt-based non-alcoholic energy drink
BERTAT HEINEKEN introduces its first malt-based non-alcoholic energy drink, BERTAT, to Ethiopia. BERTAT is a fruity-tasting drink that provides instantaneous energy like other energy drinks while adding the benefits of malt and the nutritional benefits of vitamin B6...
Tems, wins the Best International Act at the BET Awards 2022
Nigerian singer Temilade Openiyi, aka Tems, wins the Best International Act at the BET Awards 2022. Tems is a 27-year-old singer, songwriter, and record producer who received multiple nominations and won awards like Soul Train Music Awards, NAACP Image Awards, Net...
Dashen Bank launches a $4.4 million data center
Dashen Bank launches a $4.4 million (ETB 230 million) next-generation Huawei FusionModule2000 data center solution built to Tier-III standards with integrated power, cooling, rack, cabling, & management systems. The Huawei FusionModule200 is an intelligent modular...
Greytrix Africa wins the Sage Platinum Club Partnership Award
Sage is a global market leader for technology, providing customers with the best cloud technology and support. It helps small and medium businesses (SMBs) run operations smoothly with its software that makes decision-making quicker and more accurate. It offers its...
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Innovation & Technology signs an MoU with ORION AST, a US satellite company
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Innovation & Technology (MINT) signed an MoU with ORION Applied Science and Technology, a US satellite company. ORION Applied Science and Technology provides superior engineering solutions to transform the aerospace industry. Its goal is to...
VivaTech selects three winners for the AfricaTech 2022 awards
VivaTech is Europe's largest startup & tech event, widely regarded as a powerful catalyst for business transformation, startup growth, and social innovation. Its AfricaTech Awards is a pan-African initiative recognizing and supporting the most innovative startups...
Mesfin Tassew becomes a member of IATA’s Board of Governors
Mesfin Tassew becomes a member of the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) Board of Governors. He was elected at the 78th IATA Annual General Meeting and World Transport Summit in Doha, Qatar. The IATA is a trade association representing 290 airlines in...
Kenya’s first Green Bond by Acorn Holdings Limited wins the Most Innovative Bond at the EMEA Finance 2021 Awards
Kenya's first Green Bond by Acorn Holdings Limited wins the Most Innovative Bond at the EMEA Finance 2021 Awards. EMEA Finance specializes in reporting financial & banking developments and offers corporate investments analysis, retail banking services, &...
Nehemiah Autism Center receives ETB300,000 from NISCO to support autistic children
Nyala Insurance S.C. (NISCO) donates ETB300,000 to Nehemiah Autism Center to treat and train autistic children. NISCO is one of the leading insurance companies in Ethiopia in terms of performance growth and financial position. In Ethiopia, it is estimated that 1 in 88...
Buhle Goslar joins Copia Global, a mobile commerce platform, as a board member
Copia Global is a platform that provides mobile commerce to middle and low-income African. It is one of the fastest-growing retail enterprises in Kenya and Uganda. Copia aims to enhance its platform and expand from e-commerce services to digital and financial...
Ethiopian Airlines, MoH, Children’s Heart Fund of Ethiopia, & Rotary Ethiopia sign an MoU to help children with heart disease
Ethiopian Airlines, the Ministry of Health, Children’s Heart Fund of Ethiopia, and Rotary Ethiopia sign an MoU to help children with cardiovascular disease get free medical services. Ethiopian Airlines will provide 100 children and 100 caretakers round-trip services...
Senegal plans to build Africa’s first full-service vaccine manufacturing plant
Senegal plans to build Africa’s first full-service vaccine manufacturing plant, Madiba, with $80 million funded by the Institut Pasteur de Dakar and the European Investment Bank. Madiba, short for Manufacturing in Africa for Disease Immunization and Building Autonomy,...
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Education collaborates with Microsoft to help digitize the education sector
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Education collaborates with Microsoft to help digitize the education sector with HETMIS. The Higher Educational Training Management Information System improves data collection, management, reporting, and analytics. The HETMIS enables the...
The Mastercard Wellness Pass solution to be launched in Ethiopia
Ethiopia's Ministry of Health, Mastercard, Gavi, and JSI partner to launch the Mastercard Wellness Pass solution. Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry aiming to create an inclusive digital economy globally. Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, is...
Ethiopian Airlines wins two categories in the 2022 APEX Regional Passenger Choice Awards
Ethiopian Airlines wins the 2022 APEX Regional Passenger Choice Awards for Best Entertainment and Best Cabin Service in Africa. Passengers from over one million flights rated the 2022 winners using a five-star scale across over 600 airlines. The award identifies...
Mastercard and Ecobank collaborate to digitize Africa’s agricultural value chains
Mastercard and Ecobank collaborate to digitize Africa's agricultural value chains using Mastercard's Farm Pass platform. Farm Pass is an award-winning digital platform that connects smallholder farmers to financial and agricultural ecosystems. It boosts the collective...
Sotheby’s International Realty opens its first office in Cairo, Egypt
Sotheby's International Realty is one of the world's longest-standing tastemakers with an exceptional luxury real estate company founded in 1976. The company offers property listings globally, including houses, condos, townhomes, villas, and more. It has over 1,000...
Elman Peace receives the 2020/2021 KBF African Development Prize
The King Baudouin African Development Prize honors remarkable & innovative Africans dedicated to the continent's development. The award is given every other year with a €200,000 prize to present winners with opportunities to increase visibility, promote their...
YeneGuzo, by AddisMap, is among the four winners of the DT4A Innovation Challenge
The DT4A Innovation Challenge aims to support organizations and initiatives, ranging from private companies, universities, and NGOs, contributing to improving the transportation sector through sustainable and equitable results using open data. The initiative is led by...
Professor Mitiku Haile becomes a laureate of the GCHERA World Agriculture Prize 2021.
The Global Confederation of Higher Education Associations for Agricultural and Life Sciences (GCHERA) selects Professor Mitiku Haile as one of the two laureates for the 2021 World Agriculture Prize. The GCHERA is a global network of national and regional Higher...
Rwandan Awoke Ogbo turns plastic bottles into bricks
Awoke Ogbo is a Rwandan undergraduate from the Global Challenges at Africa Leadership University based in Rwanda. He created Operation 414, a social enterprise idea that makes eco-friendly & affordable roads & pathways for Rwanda. Awoke found a way to turn...
Africa’s first International Book Fair will be held in Addis Ababa towards the end of 2022.
Tsehai Publishers is one of the few publishing companies committed to producing African literature. It publishes books that depict Ethiopia's historical, political, economic, & cultural issues and bring international knowledge. The company aims to provide...
Ethiopia’s Federal Housing Corporation officially opens the Gerji Village Construction Project
Ethiopia’s Federal Housing Corporation officially opens the Gerji Village Construction Project. The modern residential village with 16 ten-story buildings is built on 3 hectares. The village was completed in 18 months with Aluminum Formwork technology, the most...
C. Mputhia Advocates joins the International Lawyers Network
Mputhia Advocates, a Kenyan law firm, has become a member of the International Lawyers Network. The ILN is a network of high-quality, full-service law firms providing legal services for clients with international needs. It is one of the world’s leading networks of...
Tadash Steel Manufacturing Industry opens a steel mill
Tadash Steel Manufacturing Industry opens a steel mill built with ETB 5.8 billion on 50,000 square meters of land in Dukem, Oromia. The steel mill has an iron melting capacity of 450 tons and a daily production capacity of 600 steel bars. The facility aims to employ...
African Leadership Magazine announces winners of the African Business Leadership Awards 2022
African Leadership Magazine announces winners of the African Business Leadership Awards (ABLA) 2022. The ABLA recognizes exceptional corporate practices and achievers in Africa’s business and private sectors to present them to the world. ABLA aims to acknowledge and...
Standard Bank launches the Africa Trade Barometer
Standard Bank launches the Africa Trade Barometer, the first-ever Biannual African Trade Index. The Barometer, published twice a year, is present in 20 African markets but will initially focus on ten countries: Angola, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South...
Ethio Telecom partners with Immigration & Citizenship Service to make digital passport payments with Telebirr
The Immigration & Citizenship Service (ICS) currently serves 1500 to 2000 customers daily who require passport renewal and replacement. Telebirr’s platform has managed over 19.95 million subscribers, over 82 master agents, and thousands of agents & businesses...
Ethiopia’s Walia Ibex beats Egypt 2-0 in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers
The Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) or TotalEnergies AFCON is Africa’s most important international men’s association football tournament held every two years. It was formed in 1957 under the Confederation of African Football (CAF), in which Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia...
Marie-Alix de Putter wins the Best Woman Leader in Africa by the AIFA
Marie-Alix de Putter is a French-Cameroonian with 3 Masters II in Political Science, Project Management & Corporate communication, an Executive MBA in Corporate Management & Communication from CELSA, and a certificate in Authentic Leader Development from...
Yefikir Design – Clothing Brand
Yefikir design is a clothing line that makes use of hand woven textiles that are abundant in Ethiopia. The brand turned into a stand-alone label in 2009. Working with the Ministry of Social and Labor Affairs, the brand has advocated for child labor-free products....
RMB Morgan Stanley & Standard Bank Group receive the overall Financial Mail’s 2022 Top Analysts Awards
Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) is an investment-banking firm that joined Morgan Stanley, a global financial service firm, to offer South African corporate clients enhanced financial services. Standard Bank Group (SBG) is a financial institution providing banking and...
USAID partners with Teki Paper Bags PLC to employ over 200 deaf women
Teki Paper Bags is a private social and environmental enterprise created for and by the deaf community. It is owned and managed by young, deaf Ethiopian women. Teki comes from the Amharic word “Metekat,” meaning to replace. A name suitable for a company that produces...
Fortescue Future Industries receives a green hydrogen and ammonia production license
Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) is a global green energy & product company producing zero-emission green hydrogen from renewable resources. The Australian company is leading the green industrial revolution by developing technology solutions for...
Zipline opens its first distribution center in Nigeria
Zipline opens its first distribution center in Kaduna state, Nigeria, to start a drone delivery service. Zipline is a US-based logistics company that designs, manufactures, and operates the world’s most extensive automated delivery system. It aims to deliver critical...
SAP AppHaus Network plans to set up Africa’s first AppHaus in South Africa.
SAP AppHaus Network is a global community of multi-disciplinary teams of designers, domain experts, design thinking coaches, & enterprise architects promoting creativity, innovation, and technology. It has 22 locations with 17 partners, with Cape Town planned as...
Bethlehem Tilahun joins the Global Business Hall of Fame
The Global Business Hall of Fame, presented by JA Worldwide, is an online exhibit that features top entrepreneurs and business leaders from the last two centuries. The laureates are classified into two categories. The leader category recognizes executive-level...
Coca-Cola opens its fifth branch in Sebeta
Coca-Cola has been active in Ethiopia since 1959 in Abinet, Addis Ababa. Since then, the company has contributed to the country’s export revenue, investment, job creation, and shared opportunities for businesses & communities. It opened its fifth branch in...
Three Africans are among National Geographic Society’s 2022 Wayfinder Award Recipients
The Wayfinder Award, previously called the Emerging Explorer Award, acknowledges explorers dedicated to protecting the world through technology, research, photography, and compelling storytelling. The award recognizes people leading a new age of exploration through...
GIZ and Siemens Healthineers partner to support Ethiopia’s healthcare system
GIZ and Siemens Healthineers collaborate to support Ethiopia's healthcare system. The German Agency for International Cooperation, GIZ is a German-owned international enterprise that provides international development cooperation and education work. GIZ has been...
ADCB Egypt teams up with Temenos Payments to offer digital payments solution
Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank Group is the United Arab Emirate's third-largest bank providing various financial products and services. Temenos Payments is a platform providing a diverse payment execution and distribution. Its platform is easy to use and processes payments...
A Pan-African Exhibition opens in the Institute of Ethiopian Studies (IES) museum
Addis Ababa University's Institute of Ethiopian Studies (IES) museum opens a permanent Pan-African Exhibition. The exhibition focuses on the 1880s to the 1960s, highlighting Ethiopia's contribution to Pan-Africanism. The exhibition celebrates the strength, bravery,...
The world’s largest civilian hospital ship arrives in the port of Dakar, Senegal
The Global Mercy is the world’s largest hospital ship, part of a fleet owned by Mercy Ships. It is an organization operating since 1978 that provides medical services in regions where healthcare access is challenging. It is equipped with the latest CT technology and...
Menelik II Referral Hospital officially opens its new Dialysis Center
Menelik II Referral Hospital is Ethiopia’s first hospital known for tertiary eye care and forensic medicine. The hospital aims to provide a wide range of services by opening surgical, medical, pediatric, and maternity units in the coming years. It recently inaugurated...
Morocco’s DGSN wins the African Excellence E-Government Award
The Africa Pay & ID Expo (APIDE) is the B2B platform that merges debates and networking for all card, payment, identification, and mobile professionals in North, West, and Central Africa. The 15th edition of the APIDE award selects Morocco’s General Directorate of...
Frontieri Consult is one of Africa’s Fastest Growing Companies in 2022
Financial Times – Global & Financial Review and Statista Review name Frontieri Consult as one of Africa’s Fastest Growing Companies in 2022, the sole awardee from Ethiopia. The award reflects the innovation, achievement, strategy, progression, and inspirational...
Professor Benedict Oramah, Afreximbank President, wins the African Banker of the Year award
The African Banker Award 2022 names Professor Benedict Oramah, President of Afreximbank, African Banker of the Year! Professor Benedict is the President of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), a pan-African multilateral trade finance institution that finances...
Ethiopian Airlines ranks third among Brand Africa 100: Africa’s Best Brands 2022
Ethiopian Airlines ranks third in the overall category in Brand Africa 100: Africa’s Best Brands 2022. It also ranked second in the “Top Three African Prides” & third in the “Leading Brand Building Countries.” Brand Africa recognizes committed leaders who are the...
Africa’s Best Brands selects three companies among its most admired 2022 Brand Africa 100
Africa's Best Brands selects three African companies among its most admired 2022 Brand Africa 100. Brand Africa is an intergenerational NGO aiming to transform the continent's image by highlighting Africa's competitiveness and connecting Africa to the world. This 12th...
Awash Bank partners with Service Cops to obtain a School Suite
Awash Bank is Ethiopia’s largest private bank, with 660 branches all over Ethiopia. It was founded in 1995 with 486 founding shareholders and a paid-up capital of ETB 24.2 million. It provides several services such as digital banking, foreign currency accounts,...
GLAD, Women’s Activewear
Grind Like a Doll (GLAD) is a women’s activewear brand based in Houston, Text. It’s a brand led by an Ethiopian creative, Dolly Girma, who combines luxury and comfort by designing pocket leggings and supportive sports bras. GLAD, founded by HTX creative Dolly Girma,...
Turkana County plans to start manufacturing its medical supplies
Turkana County is one of Kenya’s largest counties located in the former Rift Valley Province of the country. It is Kenya’s poorest region but recently increased its mineral, oil, and water resources. The county announced plans to manufacture medical supplies, mainly...
Ethiopia’s Green Legacy initiative receives over 6.3 billion seedlings to plant on June 22, 2022
The Green Legacy initiative, created in 2019, plans to reduce Ethiopia’s climate change effects and deforestation. It has planted 18 billion trees in 3 years, surpassing its 4-year target of 10 billion. On June 22, 2022, the Green Legacy initiative’s tree-planting...
UN Women launches its third Strategic Plan in Uganda
UN Women is an international organization that focuses on ending violence against women and girls (VAWG) and creating Gender Equality & Women Empowerment. It collaborates with several local & international organizations and private & government sectors to...
Nardos Bekele, the first woman CEO of the African Union Development Agency-NEPAD.
The African Union Development Agency–New Partnership for Africa’s Development is the world’s only continental development agency covering 55 African countries. It is AU’s socio-economic program aiming to promote growth, end poverty, end Africa’s operation, and enhance...
Egypt’s Canal Sugar Company begins operations of the world’s largest sugar plant with investments from the UAE.
Egypt’s Canal Sugar Company begins operations of the world’s largest sugar plant with investments from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Currently, the company produces 900,000 tons of beet sugar. It aims to develop and reclaim 181,000 acres of desert land using...
Dr. Mesfin A. Lemma performs the world’s first-ever minimal invasive spine surgery with an Intelligent Imaging System.
Dr. Mesfin Aklilu Lemma is the son of a renowned Ethiopian pathobiologist, Professor Aklilu Lemma. Professor Aklilu's research focused on endod, a trailing shrub used as a soap, shampoo, poison to stun fish, and lethal to snails. He established the Institute of...
The DBE approves ETB 14 billion to train 32,000 Small and Medium Enterprises operators in 20 towns across Ethiopia.
The Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE) approves ETB 14 billion to train 32,000 Small and Medium Enterprise operators in 20 towns across Ethiopia. The five-day training is in partnership with the World Bank. It consists of the collateral-based loan disbursement and the...
ETHIOPIA TAMRIT, a national manufacturing industry movement, launches to boost the sector’s competitiveness.
The Ethiopian government has been focusing on five priority sectors to increase the country’s economy, namely mining, ICT, agriculture, tourism, and manufacturing. ETHIOPIA TAMRIT was launched to enhance the manufacturing industry and achieve success like the...
Yalemzerf Yehualaw wins the Haspa Marathon with a time of 2:17:23, the fastest ever women’s marathon debut.
Yalemzerf Yehualaw is a 22-year-old Ethiopian long-distance runner. She began running when she was 12 years old at her school where she won a 3000m race. She continued to compete and win in cross-country, track, and road in the Amhara region. Her talent was recognized...
Netflix creates a new collection ‘From Cape to Cairo’ presenting African talent and stories to the world.
Africa has a rich heritage with many stories told by 1.2 billion Africans in 54 countries who speak over 2,000 languages. Netflix is dedicated to publicizing African talent through content creation and capacity-building initiatives. Through the "From Cape to Cairo"...
Italy signs an agreement to grant €1.5 million to implement Ethiopia’s Food Safety Project.
The lack of appropriate food safety assurance systems is the central issue that prevents the country's economic development and public health safety. Several projects have been dedicated to developing and implementing Ethiopia's food safety management systems....
Rwanda receives two loans from AfDB and AGTF totaling $180 million for its energy project, the Financing for the Transmission System Reinforcement and Last Mile Connectivity project.
The Financing for the Transmission System Reinforcement and Last Mile Connectivity project receives two loans amounting to $180 million from the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Africa Growing Together Fund. AfDB sovereign window provided $140 million and its...
Dashen Bank and EagleLion System Technology introduce Dube Pay, a buy-now-pay-later payment method, to be launched soon.
Dashen Bank is the first private bank in Ethiopia, established in 1995, and one of the most reputable banks in the Ethiopian banking market. EagleLion System Technology is an Ethiopian private company delivering easy and user-friendly financial solutions to the local...
Dinaw Mengestu
All Our Names (Knopf, 2014), How To Read the Air (Riverhead, 2010), and The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (Riverhead, 2010) are Dinaw Mengestu's three books, all of which were named New York Times Notable Books (Riverhead, 2007). Mengestu is an Ethiopian native...
The Central African Republic becomes the 1st African country to accept bitcoin as an official currency.
The Central African Republic has been suffering for years due to conflict that destroyed its economy and is now one of the world's poorest countries. CAR's National Assembly passed a bill to accept bitcoin as an official currency within its borders as a last resort to...
Canada provides $73.55 million in funding for drought-stricken countries in the Horn of Africa.
The Horn of Africa has suffered from severe drought conditions due to insufficient rainfall for two years. The affected people in Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenyans rely heavily on crops and livestock for food and livelihood. To help with the drought, Canada offers $73.55...
World Economic Forum chooses 13 Africans to be part of its 2022 class of WEF’s 100 Young Global Leaders.
World Economic Forum chooses 13 Africans to be part of its 2022 class of WEF's 100 Young Global Leaders. The individuals under 40 years of age are from different categories, including the Academia/Think-tank, Arts & Culture, Business, Public Figure, Social...
Edo state government, southern Nigeria, offers over 4,000 residents a five-day free medical care services.
Edo state government, southern Nigeria, offers over 4,000 residents a five-day free medical care services. The mission is to provide high-quality medical services to all Edo citizens. The free services include treatments and surgeries for heart, kidney, eye, teeth,...
The Ministry of Health inaugurates a newly renovated cardiac care center in Tikur Anbessa Hospital.
The Ministry of Health inaugurates a newly renovated cardiac care center in Tikur Anbessa Hospital. The €2.6 mil center seeks to tackle the limited cardiology services & bring sustainable cardiac care to Ethiopia. It has an open-heart surgery operation room, a...
Kenya launches its first sign language app, assistALL, to benefit 260,000 people with hearing impairments.
Kenya launches its first sign language app, assistALL, to benefit 260,000 people with hearing impairments. It was developed by Sign Media Kenya Limited, a company dedicated to educating, informing, and entertaining in sign language with voice overrides. Sign Media...
Ketraco announces the near completion of the Kenya-Ethiopia & Kenya-Tanzania grids
The Kenyan Electricity Transmission Company (Ketraco) announce the near completion of the Kenya-Ethiopia & Kenya-Tanzania national electricity grids. Ketraco is a Kenyan state-owned electric company that plans, constructs, operates, and maintains high voltage...
CAF to launch the African Super League by August 2023
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) announces plans to launch the African Super League on August 10, 2023, in Tanzania. The CAF is the African football governing body founded in 1957 by Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan, and South Africa. CAF is one of the six FIFA...
Sylvia Mulinge becomes the new CEO of MTN Uganda
Sylvia Mulinge gets elected as the new CEO of MTN Uganda, effective October 1, 2022. Sylvia was chosen due to her 20 years of experience in strategic thinking, brand building, new business development, commercial execution, people growth & development in the...
Ethiopian Airlines opens a new 5-star hotel
The Skylight In-Terminal Hotel is the latest addition to the Addis Ababa Bole International Airport. The hotel, located in Terminal 02, was built for travelers who have long stopovers to freshen up or rest until their next flight. Guests are only allowed a one-night...
Algeria joins the Afeximbank
The People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria becomes the 52nd member state of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank). This leaves Afreximbank with three more states to achieve its mission of full continental coverage. Afreximbank recognized Algeria’s membership...
Kazana Groups Capital Business School and Kenya’s Strathmore Business School form a partnership.
Capital Business School and Strathmore Business School partner to offer executive education for Ethiopian executive managers. Strathmore Business School is Strathmore University's business school that provides Undergraduates, Master's, Doctoral, and executive...
AfDB launches the first ESG African Frontier-Currency Bond
The African Development Bank (AfDB) launches the first environmental, social, and governance (ESG) African Frontier-Currency Bond issued by a multilateral development institution. The $5.07 million (19-billion Ugandan shilling (UGX)) 2-year theme bond, due June 2024,...
Lidya Tafesse becomes 1 of the 4 referees for WAFCON Morocco 2022
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) selects Lidya Tafessea to become 1 of the 4 referees for the TotalEnergies Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) Morocco 2022. The other referees are Salima Mukansanga from Rwanda, Shamira Nabadda from Uganda, and Suavis...
Fatmata Binta wins the 2022 Basque Culinary World Prize
Sierra Leonean chef Fatmata Binta is the 1st African to win the 2022 Basque Culinary World Prize with $105,000. The Basque Culinary World Prize is an international achievement award given to a chef from anywhere in the world who has made outstanding contributions to...
Addis Motor Taxi, Ethiopia’s first motorcycle ride-hailing service, launches in Addis Ababa
Addis Motor Taxi, Ethiopia’s first motorcycle ride-hailing service, launches intending to avoid Addis Ababa’s frequent traffic jams. It is common to see motorcycles delivering food or packages, but no official ride-hailing service exists. The ride-hailing service...
Schneider Electric and St. Kizito Vocational Training Institute launch a solar-powered laboratory in Nairobi
Schneider Electric Global is a worldwide expert in energy management and automation’s digital transformation in over 100 countries. It collaborates with institutions worldwide through its initiative to improve the skills of trainers and instructors in different...
Oromia Regional State completes over 20,000 development projects
Oromia Regional State has completed over 20,000 development projects built with ETB 42.5 billion. The projects include potable drinking water, small-scale irrigation dams, hospitals, schools, and other economic & social service provider projects. The operation was...
The Ghana Post wins the World’s Best EMS Customer Care
The Ghana Post won the World's Best EMS Customer Care from the Universal Postal Union in Switzerland for the second time. The award recognizes the best Call Centers of Express Mail Service (EMS) Best Cooperative Members. The EMS Cooperative Board picks winners based...
HEINEKEN Ethiopia introduces its first malt-based non-alcoholic energy drink
BERTAT HEINEKEN introduces its first malt-based non-alcoholic energy drink, BERTAT, to Ethiopia. BERTAT is a fruity-tasting drink that provides instantaneous energy like other energy drinks while adding the benefits of malt and the nutritional benefits of vitamin B6...
Tems, wins the Best International Act at the BET Awards 2022
Nigerian singer Temilade Openiyi, aka Tems, wins the Best International Act at the BET Awards 2022. Tems is a 27-year-old singer, songwriter, and record producer who received multiple nominations and won awards like Soul Train Music Awards, NAACP Image Awards, Net...
Dashen Bank launches a $4.4 million data center
Dashen Bank launches a $4.4 million (ETB 230 million) next-generation Huawei FusionModule2000 data center solution built to Tier-III standards with integrated power, cooling, rack, cabling, & management systems. The Huawei FusionModule200 is an intelligent modular...
Greytrix Africa wins the Sage Platinum Club Partnership Award
Sage is a global market leader for technology, providing customers with the best cloud technology and support. It helps small and medium businesses (SMBs) run operations smoothly with its software that makes decision-making quicker and more accurate. It offers its...
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Innovation & Technology signs an MoU with ORION AST, a US satellite company
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Innovation & Technology (MINT) signed an MoU with ORION Applied Science and Technology, a US satellite company. ORION Applied Science and Technology provides superior engineering solutions to transform the aerospace industry. Its goal is to...
VivaTech selects three winners for the AfricaTech 2022 awards
VivaTech is Europe's largest startup & tech event, widely regarded as a powerful catalyst for business transformation, startup growth, and social innovation. Its AfricaTech Awards is a pan-African initiative recognizing and supporting the most innovative startups...
Mesfin Tassew becomes a member of IATA’s Board of Governors
Mesfin Tassew becomes a member of the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) Board of Governors. He was elected at the 78th IATA Annual General Meeting and World Transport Summit in Doha, Qatar. The IATA is a trade association representing 290 airlines in...
Kenya’s first Green Bond by Acorn Holdings Limited wins the Most Innovative Bond at the EMEA Finance 2021 Awards
Kenya's first Green Bond by Acorn Holdings Limited wins the Most Innovative Bond at the EMEA Finance 2021 Awards. EMEA Finance specializes in reporting financial & banking developments and offers corporate investments analysis, retail banking services, &...
Nehemiah Autism Center receives ETB300,000 from NISCO to support autistic children
Nyala Insurance S.C. (NISCO) donates ETB300,000 to Nehemiah Autism Center to treat and train autistic children. NISCO is one of the leading insurance companies in Ethiopia in terms of performance growth and financial position. In Ethiopia, it is estimated that 1 in 88...
Buhle Goslar joins Copia Global, a mobile commerce platform, as a board member
Copia Global is a platform that provides mobile commerce to middle and low-income African. It is one of the fastest-growing retail enterprises in Kenya and Uganda. Copia aims to enhance its platform and expand from e-commerce services to digital and financial...
Ethiopian Airlines, MoH, Children’s Heart Fund of Ethiopia, & Rotary Ethiopia sign an MoU to help children with heart disease
Ethiopian Airlines, the Ministry of Health, Children’s Heart Fund of Ethiopia, and Rotary Ethiopia sign an MoU to help children with cardiovascular disease get free medical services. Ethiopian Airlines will provide 100 children and 100 caretakers round-trip services...
Senegal plans to build Africa’s first full-service vaccine manufacturing plant
Senegal plans to build Africa’s first full-service vaccine manufacturing plant, Madiba, with $80 million funded by the Institut Pasteur de Dakar and the European Investment Bank. Madiba, short for Manufacturing in Africa for Disease Immunization and Building Autonomy,...
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Education collaborates with Microsoft to help digitize the education sector
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Education collaborates with Microsoft to help digitize the education sector with HETMIS. The Higher Educational Training Management Information System improves data collection, management, reporting, and analytics. The HETMIS enables the...
The Mastercard Wellness Pass solution to be launched in Ethiopia
Ethiopia's Ministry of Health, Mastercard, Gavi, and JSI partner to launch the Mastercard Wellness Pass solution. Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry aiming to create an inclusive digital economy globally. Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, is...
Ethiopian Airlines wins two categories in the 2022 APEX Regional Passenger Choice Awards
Ethiopian Airlines wins the 2022 APEX Regional Passenger Choice Awards for Best Entertainment and Best Cabin Service in Africa. Passengers from over one million flights rated the 2022 winners using a five-star scale across over 600 airlines. The award identifies...
Mastercard and Ecobank collaborate to digitize Africa’s agricultural value chains
Mastercard and Ecobank collaborate to digitize Africa's agricultural value chains using Mastercard's Farm Pass platform. Farm Pass is an award-winning digital platform that connects smallholder farmers to financial and agricultural ecosystems. It boosts the collective...
Sotheby’s International Realty opens its first office in Cairo, Egypt
Sotheby's International Realty is one of the world's longest-standing tastemakers with an exceptional luxury real estate company founded in 1976. The company offers property listings globally, including houses, condos, townhomes, villas, and more. It has over 1,000...
Elman Peace receives the 2020/2021 KBF African Development Prize
The King Baudouin African Development Prize honors remarkable & innovative Africans dedicated to the continent's development. The award is given every other year with a €200,000 prize to present winners with opportunities to increase visibility, promote their...
YeneGuzo, by AddisMap, is among the four winners of the DT4A Innovation Challenge
The DT4A Innovation Challenge aims to support organizations and initiatives, ranging from private companies, universities, and NGOs, contributing to improving the transportation sector through sustainable and equitable results using open data. The initiative is led by...
Professor Mitiku Haile becomes a laureate of the GCHERA World Agriculture Prize 2021.
The Global Confederation of Higher Education Associations for Agricultural and Life Sciences (GCHERA) selects Professor Mitiku Haile as one of the two laureates for the 2021 World Agriculture Prize. The GCHERA is a global network of national and regional Higher...
Rwandan Awoke Ogbo turns plastic bottles into bricks
Awoke Ogbo is a Rwandan undergraduate from the Global Challenges at Africa Leadership University based in Rwanda. He created Operation 414, a social enterprise idea that makes eco-friendly & affordable roads & pathways for Rwanda. Awoke found a way to turn...
Africa’s first International Book Fair will be held in Addis Ababa towards the end of 2022.
Tsehai Publishers is one of the few publishing companies committed to producing African literature. It publishes books that depict Ethiopia's historical, political, economic, & cultural issues and bring international knowledge. The company aims to provide...
Ethiopia’s Federal Housing Corporation officially opens the Gerji Village Construction Project
Ethiopia’s Federal Housing Corporation officially opens the Gerji Village Construction Project. The modern residential village with 16 ten-story buildings is built on 3 hectares. The village was completed in 18 months with Aluminum Formwork technology, the most...
C. Mputhia Advocates joins the International Lawyers Network
Mputhia Advocates, a Kenyan law firm, has become a member of the International Lawyers Network. The ILN is a network of high-quality, full-service law firms providing legal services for clients with international needs. It is one of the world’s leading networks of...
Tadash Steel Manufacturing Industry opens a steel mill
Tadash Steel Manufacturing Industry opens a steel mill built with ETB 5.8 billion on 50,000 square meters of land in Dukem, Oromia. The steel mill has an iron melting capacity of 450 tons and a daily production capacity of 600 steel bars. The facility aims to employ...
African Leadership Magazine announces winners of the African Business Leadership Awards 2022
African Leadership Magazine announces winners of the African Business Leadership Awards (ABLA) 2022. The ABLA recognizes exceptional corporate practices and achievers in Africa’s business and private sectors to present them to the world. ABLA aims to acknowledge and...
Standard Bank launches the Africa Trade Barometer
Standard Bank launches the Africa Trade Barometer, the first-ever Biannual African Trade Index. The Barometer, published twice a year, is present in 20 African markets but will initially focus on ten countries: Angola, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South...
Ethio Telecom partners with Immigration & Citizenship Service to make digital passport payments with Telebirr
The Immigration & Citizenship Service (ICS) currently serves 1500 to 2000 customers daily who require passport renewal and replacement. Telebirr’s platform has managed over 19.95 million subscribers, over 82 master agents, and thousands of agents & businesses...
Ethiopia’s Walia Ibex beats Egypt 2-0 in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers
The Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) or TotalEnergies AFCON is Africa’s most important international men’s association football tournament held every two years. It was formed in 1957 under the Confederation of African Football (CAF), in which Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia...
Marie-Alix de Putter wins the Best Woman Leader in Africa by the AIFA
Marie-Alix de Putter is a French-Cameroonian with 3 Masters II in Political Science, Project Management & Corporate communication, an Executive MBA in Corporate Management & Communication from CELSA, and a certificate in Authentic Leader Development from...
Yefikir Design – Clothing Brand
Yefikir design is a clothing line that makes use of hand woven textiles that are abundant in Ethiopia. The brand turned into a stand-alone label in 2009. Working with the Ministry of Social and Labor Affairs, the brand has advocated for child labor-free products....
RMB Morgan Stanley & Standard Bank Group receive the overall Financial Mail’s 2022 Top Analysts Awards
Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) is an investment-banking firm that joined Morgan Stanley, a global financial service firm, to offer South African corporate clients enhanced financial services. Standard Bank Group (SBG) is a financial institution providing banking and...
USAID partners with Teki Paper Bags PLC to employ over 200 deaf women
Teki Paper Bags is a private social and environmental enterprise created for and by the deaf community. It is owned and managed by young, deaf Ethiopian women. Teki comes from the Amharic word “Metekat,” meaning to replace. A name suitable for a company that produces...
Fortescue Future Industries receives a green hydrogen and ammonia production license
Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) is a global green energy & product company producing zero-emission green hydrogen from renewable resources. The Australian company is leading the green industrial revolution by developing technology solutions for...
Zipline opens its first distribution center in Nigeria
Zipline opens its first distribution center in Kaduna state, Nigeria, to start a drone delivery service. Zipline is a US-based logistics company that designs, manufactures, and operates the world’s most extensive automated delivery system. It aims to deliver critical...
SAP AppHaus Network plans to set up Africa’s first AppHaus in South Africa.
SAP AppHaus Network is a global community of multi-disciplinary teams of designers, domain experts, design thinking coaches, & enterprise architects promoting creativity, innovation, and technology. It has 22 locations with 17 partners, with Cape Town planned as...
Bethlehem Tilahun joins the Global Business Hall of Fame
The Global Business Hall of Fame, presented by JA Worldwide, is an online exhibit that features top entrepreneurs and business leaders from the last two centuries. The laureates are classified into two categories. The leader category recognizes executive-level...
Coca-Cola opens its fifth branch in Sebeta
Coca-Cola has been active in Ethiopia since 1959 in Abinet, Addis Ababa. Since then, the company has contributed to the country’s export revenue, investment, job creation, and shared opportunities for businesses & communities. It opened its fifth branch in...
Three Africans are among National Geographic Society’s 2022 Wayfinder Award Recipients
The Wayfinder Award, previously called the Emerging Explorer Award, acknowledges explorers dedicated to protecting the world through technology, research, photography, and compelling storytelling. The award recognizes people leading a new age of exploration through...
GIZ and Siemens Healthineers partner to support Ethiopia’s healthcare system
GIZ and Siemens Healthineers collaborate to support Ethiopia's healthcare system. The German Agency for International Cooperation, GIZ is a German-owned international enterprise that provides international development cooperation and education work. GIZ has been...
ADCB Egypt teams up with Temenos Payments to offer digital payments solution
Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank Group is the United Arab Emirate's third-largest bank providing various financial products and services. Temenos Payments is a platform providing a diverse payment execution and distribution. Its platform is easy to use and processes payments...
A Pan-African Exhibition opens in the Institute of Ethiopian Studies (IES) museum
Addis Ababa University's Institute of Ethiopian Studies (IES) museum opens a permanent Pan-African Exhibition. The exhibition focuses on the 1880s to the 1960s, highlighting Ethiopia's contribution to Pan-Africanism. The exhibition celebrates the strength, bravery,...
The world’s largest civilian hospital ship arrives in the port of Dakar, Senegal
The Global Mercy is the world’s largest hospital ship, part of a fleet owned by Mercy Ships. It is an organization operating since 1978 that provides medical services in regions where healthcare access is challenging. It is equipped with the latest CT technology and...
Menelik II Referral Hospital officially opens its new Dialysis Center
Menelik II Referral Hospital is Ethiopia’s first hospital known for tertiary eye care and forensic medicine. The hospital aims to provide a wide range of services by opening surgical, medical, pediatric, and maternity units in the coming years. It recently inaugurated...
Morocco’s DGSN wins the African Excellence E-Government Award
The Africa Pay & ID Expo (APIDE) is the B2B platform that merges debates and networking for all card, payment, identification, and mobile professionals in North, West, and Central Africa. The 15th edition of the APIDE award selects Morocco’s General Directorate of...
Frontieri Consult is one of Africa’s Fastest Growing Companies in 2022
Financial Times – Global & Financial Review and Statista Review name Frontieri Consult as one of Africa’s Fastest Growing Companies in 2022, the sole awardee from Ethiopia. The award reflects the innovation, achievement, strategy, progression, and inspirational.