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News • December 11, 2018

Half the world is now connected to the internet—driven by a record number of Africans

Quartz Africa

News • November 20, 2018

A Kenyan nonprofit’s innovative aerial water system just won it the world’s largest humanitarian prize

Quartz Africa

News • August 20, 2018

Autonomous drones will help stop illegal fishing in Africa

engadget

News • July 19, 2018

Loon's internet-slinging balloons are headed to work over Kenya

WIRED

News • July 16, 2018

Madagascar has faster internet than UK, France and Canada

Quartz Africa

News • July 12, 2018

Mini-grids could be a boon to poor people in Africa and Asia

The Economist

News • July 9, 2018

Thanks to China, Africa’s largest free trade zone has launched in Djibouti

Quartz Africa

News • July 9, 2018

Ethiopia and Eritrea restore ties after 20 years of enmity

The Guardian

News • July 6, 2018

Google’s Project Loon balloons to beam high-speed Internet to rural Africa

This is Africa

News • June 7, 2018

Ethiopia’s new prime minister wants peace and privatisation

The Economist

News • May 31, 2018

Rwanda refuses to remove tariffs on imports of used clothing

The Economist

News • May 29, 2018

There is growing momentum to adopt China’s yuan as a reserve currency in Africa

Quartz Africa

News • May 21, 2018

Africa is now a favorite destination for Chinese tourists and tens of thousands of them are coming

Quartz Africa

News • April 14, 2018

Emiratis plough millions into a country that no one recognises: Somaliland

The Economist

News • April 12, 2018

EAC vision for single currency takes shape

The East African

News • April 2, 2018

Heavy rains in Kenya reveal a crack that shows Africa will split into two continents

Quartz Africa

News • March 20, 2018

There’s a crucial link between better road networks and international trade for African countries

Quartz Africa

News • March 15, 2018

Why Africa’s poor pay high prices

The Economist

News • March 10, 2018

Fake processed food is becoming an epidemic in African urban life

Quartz Africa

News • January 25, 2018

Ethiopia could be sitting on one of the world’s great untapped gold deposits

Quartz Africa

News • January 24, 2018

COMESA’s online market will reduce cross-border trade barriers - officials

The New Times Rwanda

News • January 18, 2018

An army of worms is invading Africa

The Economist

News • January 12, 2018

It’s about to get easier for almost 700 million Africans to travel by air in Africa

Quartz Africa

News • January 10, 2018

Rural Africa could be powered using genetically modified algae, say scientists

The Independent

News • December 24, 2017

Africa’s first digital free trade area for rollout in 2018

The East African

News • December 7, 2017

African countries are building a giant free-trade area

The Economist

News • December 6, 2017

Crowdfarming is being used to bring Somalia’s livestock market into the digital economy

Quartz Africa

News • November 29, 2017

AfDB launches drive to generate 25m jobs

The Citizen TZ

News • November 23, 2017

Improving the plants that Africans eat and breeders neglect

The Economist

News • November 12, 2017

The mobile phone is still changing the game in Africa

Quartz Africa

News • November 10, 2017

Somaliland first in the world to use iris-based biometric voting system

BBC

News • November 6, 2017

Dubai's DP World to develop free zone in Somaliland

Arabian Business

News • October 5, 2017

COMESA Region set to Abolish Roaming Charges

COMESA

News • August 28, 2017

Kenya just imposed the world's toughest law against plastic bags

The Independent

News • July 27, 2017

Mobile money is only just starting to transform some of Africa’s markets

Quartz Africa

News • July 26, 2017

Robots are set to take Africa’s manufacturing jobs even before it has enough

Quartz Africa

News • July 24, 2017

This Miner’s $190 Billion Tax Bill Would Take Centuries to Pay

Bloomberg

News • July 14, 2017

Leapfrogging progress

The Breakthrough

News • July 13, 2017

Africa is Islamic banking’s new frontier

The Economist

News • July 13, 2017

Mobile subscriptions are still growing faster in Sub Saharan Africa than anywhere else

Quartz Africa

News • July 7, 2017

AfDB wants common passport, Visa openness in Africa

Daily Monitor UG

News • July 5, 2017

African tourists emerge as powerhouse for tourism on the continent

United Nations UNCTAD

News • June 30, 2017

China has overtaken the US and UK as the top destination for anglophone African students

Quartz Africa

News • June 29, 2017

Kenya launches the world’s first mobile-only sovereign bond

The Economist

News • June 26, 2017

UN: Half of world's population growth is likely to occur in Africa

CNN

News • June 21, 2017

AfDB to create 25 million jobs for African youth

Daily Monitor UG

News • June 15, 2017

Nairobi has the worst traffic in Africa, fifth in the world – survey

Capital FM

News • June 8, 2017

Visa-free travel in Africa remains far off

The Economist

News • May 31, 2017

Africa’s economic growth in 2016 was driven by East Africa

Quartz Africa

News • May 31, 2017

The Lunatic Express: Kenya

The Economist Espresso

News • May 25, 2017

Work begins on Africa’s tallest building

The Economist

News • May 8, 2017

The road to Germany’s global leadership is passing through Africa

Quartz Africa

News • May 4, 2017

Kenya: Food prices soar by 50 per cent in key granaries

Daily Nation

News • April 28, 2017

President Magufuli sacks 9,932 civil servants at a go

The Citizen TZ

News • April 24, 2017

Kenyans turn to camels to cope with climate change

Deutsche Welle

News • April 24, 2017

Intra-Africa trade at 40pc as EAC spurs Kenya’s sales

Business Daily Africa

News • April 21, 2017

Kenya: Home owners face jail for not installing solar power

Daily Nation

News • April 18, 2017

Africa is looking to space to power its science, tech, and military ambitions

Quartz Africa

News • April 13, 2017

How to Pull Water Out of Thin Air, Even in the Driest Parts of the Globe

MIT Technology Review

News • April 13, 2017

Kenya aims to become the next global center of Islamic finance

Quartz Africa

News • April 12, 2017

Water storage top priority as the rains start

Daily Nation

News • April 11, 2017

Kiswahili all set to be official in the EAC

The Citizen TZ

News • April 8, 2017

E-passport for EAC bloc to be ready January 2018

The Citizen TZ

News • April 6, 2017

EU moves to fend off hunger crisis in E. Africa and Yemen

Deutsche Welle

News • April 4, 2017

Providing sustainable energy isn’t just about gadgets and dollars

The Conversation

News • March 11, 2017

A circular tale of changing food preferences

The Economist

News • January 13, 2017

If you want affordable internet in Africa, move to a country on the coast

Quartz Africa

News • January 12, 2017

A Congo swamp could release the equivalent of 20 years of US greenhouse gas emissions into the air

Quartz

News • December 16, 2016

A startup in Kenya is launching “Uber for ambulances”

Quartz Africa

News • December 14, 2016

Africa, home to a quarter of the world’s arable land, will soon have to import half of its grains

Quartz Africa

News • December 10, 2016

Mobile phones are transforming Africa

The Economist

News • November 28, 2016

African scientists are fostering a new R&D culture to reverse the continent’s brain drain

Quartz Africa

News • November 24, 2016

Govt to offer 1 million online jobs for Kenyan youths

Daily Nation

News • November 22, 2016

Drought-resistant grass to spur milk production

SciDev.Net

News • November 22, 2016

Mobile innovation will help 2 billion more people get access to healthcare and education

Quartz Africa

News • November 21, 2016

World’s 1st malaria vaccine in the offing

The Citizen TZ

News • November 11, 2016

Tanzania: Dar mulls adding Tanzanite in foreign reserves

Daily News TZ

News • October 15, 2016

World climate talks address agriculture

The Economist

News • October 14, 2016

Rwanda begins to deliver medical supplies to remote areas using drones

Daily Nation

News • August 25, 2016

New milk consumption drive on in Rwanda

The New Times Rwanda

News • August 24, 2016

Kenya to be an oil exporting country in June 2017

Capital FM

News • August 16, 2016

New rules to allow more foreign direct investment in Kenya

Daily Nation

News • June 28, 2016

Researchers welcome discovery of rare helium gas in Tanzania

Deutsche Welle

News • June 23, 2016

Food is getting so expensive in India that it now wants to farm in Africa and Myanmar

Quartz India

News • May 23, 2016

Kenya bucks Africa's economic trend

The Financial Times

News • May 23, 2016

There’s a logical reason why Africa’s renewables landscape is better than a lot of much richer places

Quartz Africa

News • May 20, 2016

DP World signs $442m joint venture with Somaliland

Gulf News

News • May 20, 2016

A high school graduate’s MIT-endorsed enterprise is bringing clean energy to Kenya

Quartz Africa

News • May 12, 2016

African farmers to gain from $2 billion cold storage facilities

The East African

News • May 8, 2016

4G LTE technology proving to be a blessing to African economies

Daily News TZ

News • May 4, 2016

Grand plan unveiled to revitalise Dar port

The Citizen TZ

News • April 30, 2016

New data suggest that China lends less to Africa than is commonly assumed

The Economist

News • April 26, 2016

Africa is eliminating malaria faster than expected

Quartz Africa

News • April 25, 2016

The "exponential" growth of the ICT sector in East Africa

CNBC Africa

News • April 23, 2016

Uganda picks Tanzania for oil pipeline route rather than Kenya

Reuters

News • April 21, 2016

Somaliland to Ivy League: How one African school gets kids into top U.S. universities

CNN Money

News • April 21, 2016

Small-scale farmers go online to find market for their produce

Daily Nation

News • April 19, 2016

These charts show reliable electricity is still a luxury for more than half of Africa

Quartz Africa

News • April 16, 2016

A 15-ton computer aims to provide clean water, electricity, and the internet to thousands of Africans

Quartz Africa

News • April 16, 2016

1.2 billion opportunities

The Economist

News • April 16, 2016

Financial technology On the move

The Economist

News • April 13, 2016

More hotels are being planned in Africa than ever before

Quartz Africa

News • April 9, 2016

The rate of diabetes has more than doubled in Africa and no one is ready for it

Quartz Africa

News • April 2, 2016

EAC One Network Area has potential to transform Africa

The East African

News • March 23, 2016

Kenya says plans to convert sole refinery into storage plant

Reuters

News • March 10, 2016

I have no doubt the next great scientific minds will be from Africa

Quartz Africa

News • March 7, 2016

We must open up Africa to Africans if we really want to boost growth

Quartz Africa

News • March 3, 2016

Dar, Kampala plan oil pipeline

Daily News TZ

News • February 27, 2016

Tear down these walls

The Economist

News • February 26, 2016

More phones, few banks and years of instability are transforming Somalia to a cashless society

Quartz Africa

News • February 25, 2016

Power to the powerless

The Economist

News • February 24, 2016

What can be done about badly depleted nitrogen levels in Africa’s soil

The Conversation

News • February 19, 2016

Bees can help boost food security of two billion small farmers at no cost – UN

United Nations News

News • February 18, 2016

The huge, hidden upside to low oil prices

Quartz Africa

News • February 12, 2016

African regulators are unlikely to replicate India’s ban of Facebook’s “Free Basics”

Quartz Africa

News • February 12, 2016

Trash-Burning Cookstoves at Nairobi Slums Offer Glimpse of Green Development Opportunities

UN Environment Programme

News • February 9, 2016

East African countries agree to set-up of cargo control unit

Daily Nation

News • February 6, 2016

How micro loans for solar pumps are a macro step forward

The East African

News • February 3, 2016

Bigger isn’t always better for private equity investments in Africa

Quartz Africa

News • February 2, 2016

Japanese Premier tips Kenya to develop into a regional economic giant

Daily Nation

News • January 19, 2016

Is Africa leading the innovation revolution?

World Economic Forum

News • January 19, 2016

African container trades is growing exponentially

Hellenic Shipping News

News • January 17, 2016

The Nairobi slum skating club born from a flawed UN aid project

Quartz Africa

News • January 11, 2016

Tokyo takes on Beijing in Africa, claiming quality over speed

Financial Times

News • January 8, 2016

World Bank foresees bright Kenyan future

Daily Nation

News • December 29, 2015

As hydropower dries up, Tanzania moves toward fossil fuels

Reuters

News • December 25, 2015

'Small off-grid firms increased access to power in sub-Saharan Africa'

The New Times

News • December 22, 2015

Students bring drone technology to farmers

The Citizen

News • December 19, 2015

EAC partners with International Trade Centre to boost integration

The East African

News • December 10, 2015

Google’s free public Wi-Fi to make internet more accessible in Uganda

The Daily Monitor

News • December 7, 2015

UN agency deploys artificial fish habitats along Somali coast to boost sustainable fishing

UN News

News • December 3, 2015

Kenya inks $200mn dam construction deal at Paris talks

The East African

News • November 23, 2015

Poor nations need support to cut emissions from farming - experts

Thomson Reuters Foundation

News • November 19, 2015

Lake Nakuru ranked among world’s most beautiful destinations

Daily Nation

News • November 17, 2015

Coming soon: Free Internet to rural areas

Daily Nation

News • November 12, 2015

Kenya: A third of public revenue goes to pay off debt, experts say

Daily Nation

News • November 10, 2015

Japanese tourist marks 154th Kenyan visit

The Star Kenya

News • November 7, 2015

Industrialisation in Africa: More a marathon than a sprint

The Economist

News • November 7, 2015

Health care in Kenya Vegetables, not samosas

The Economist

News • November 2, 2015

Kenya and Ethiopia buck the trend for Africa’s drop in Remittance inflows

Daily Nation

News • October 21, 2015

Tanzania’s $10 billion port project threatens Mombasa hub status

The East African

News • October 21, 2015

Google to invest Sh4 billion in Lake Turkana Wind Power Project

The Star Kenya

News • October 17, 2015

Turkey reforestation may be model for arid Africa

Thomson Reuters Foundation

News • October 16, 2015

Ethiopia dam draining out Lake Turkana

The Star Kenya

News • October 10, 2015

East Africa’s first drive through launched

Capital FM

News • September 28, 2015

Kenya to issue Sh5bn bond via M-PESA

Capital FM

News • September 26, 2015

East Africa region now targets 3-month oil reserves

The East African

News • September 17, 2015

Meet Africa’s top young entrepreneurs for 2015

The Anzisha prize

News • September 15, 2015

Kenya: How new set of regulations will change the business landscape

Daily Nation

News • September 11, 2015

East Africa urged to embrace modern farming to fight food insecurity

The East African

News • September 8, 2015

Infrastructure development: East Africa is on the move

Daily Maverick

News • September 1, 2015

Atomic agency nods to Kenya’s nuclear plants

The East African

News • August 24, 2015

5 tech startup ideas that Kenya can export

Capital FM

News • August 23, 2015

East Africa home to 11,000 millionaires

East African Business Week

News • August 8, 2015

Nairobi termed ‘hub of impact investment’ as region attracts $9 billion

The EastAfrican

News • August 6, 2015

Why Africa offers growing opportunities for agricultural products

The Conversation

News • July 11, 2015

Oil in the cradle of mankind A glimpse of Africa’s future

The Economist

News • July 9, 2015

Telecoms in Kenya A new east Africa campaign

The Economist

News • July 6, 2015

Tanzania gas pipeline to begin trial operation this month

Reuters

News • July 6, 2015

Kenya's fuel storage tanks not adequate

Daily Nation

News • July 5, 2015

Tanzania fuel levy raises prices by 23%

East African Business Week

News • July 3, 2015

Ethiopia should leave Africa

Addis Standard

News • June 26, 2015

Gouda in the Congo?

http://www.one.org/

News • June 17, 2015

30 per cent Nairobians have been sacked because of traffic jams - poll

The Star

News • November 10, 2010

The true true size of Africa

The Economist

Half the world is now connected to the internet—driven by a record number of Africans

Africa’s overlooked business revolution

Innovators are Africa’s only real hope for prosperity

Kenyans are replenishing their forests with slingshots

AI is helping humans do a better job bringing poachers to justice

Informal trade is ubiquitous in Africa, but too often ignored

A Kenyan nonprofit’s innovative aerial water system just won it the world’s largest humanitarian prize

Autonomous drones will help stop illegal fishing in Africa

Loon's internet-slinging balloons are headed to work over Kenya

Madagascar has faster internet than UK, France and Canada

Mini-grids could be a boon to poor people in Africa and Asia

Thanks to China, Africa’s largest free trade zone has launched in Djibouti

Ethiopia and Eritrea restore ties after 20 years of enmity

Google’s Project Loon balloons to beam high-speed Internet to rural Africa

Ethiopia’s new prime minister wants peace and privatisation

Rwanda refuses to remove tariffs on imports of used clothing

There is growing momentum to adopt China’s yuan as a reserve currency in Africa

Africa is now a favorite destination for Chinese tourists and tens of thousands of them are coming

Emiratis plough millions into a country that no one recognises: Somaliland

EAC vision for single currency takes shape

Heavy rains in Kenya reveal a crack that shows Africa will split into two continents

There’s a crucial link between better road networks and international trade for African countries

Why Africa’s poor pay high prices

Fake processed food is becoming an epidemic in African urban life

Ethiopia could be sitting on one of the world’s great untapped gold deposits

COMESA’s online market will reduce cross-border trade barriers - officials

An army of worms is invading Africa

It’s about to get easier for almost 700 million Africans to travel by air in Africa

Rural Africa could be powered using genetically modified algae, say scientists

Africa’s first digital free trade area for rollout in 2018

African countries are building a giant free-trade area

Crowdfarming is being used to bring Somalia’s livestock market into the digital economy

AfDB launches drive to generate 25m jobs

Improving the plants that Africans eat and breeders neglect

The mobile phone is still changing the game in Africa

Somaliland first in the world to use iris-based biometric voting system

Dubai's DP World to develop free zone in Somaliland

COMESA Region set to Abolish Roaming Charges

Kenya just imposed the world's toughest law against plastic bags

Mobile money is only just starting to transform some of Africa’s markets

Robots are set to take Africa’s manufacturing jobs even before it has enough

This Miner’s $190 Billion Tax Bill Would Take Centuries to Pay

Leapfrogging progress

Africa is Islamic banking’s new frontier

Mobile subscriptions are still growing faster in Sub Saharan Africa than anywhere else

AfDB wants common passport, Visa openness in Africa

African tourists emerge as powerhouse for tourism on the continent

China has overtaken the US and UK as the top destination for anglophone African students

Kenya launches the world’s first mobile-only sovereign bond

UN: Half of world's population growth is likely to occur in Africa

AfDB to create 25 million jobs for African youth

Nairobi has the worst traffic in Africa, fifth in the world – survey

Visa-free travel in Africa remains far off

Africa’s economic growth in 2016 was driven by East Africa

The Lunatic Express: Kenya

Work begins on Africa’s tallest building

The road to Germany’s global leadership is passing through Africa

Kenya: Food prices soar by 50 per cent in key granaries

President Magufuli sacks 9,932 civil servants at a go

Kenyans turn to camels to cope with climate change

Intra-Africa trade at 40pc as EAC spurs Kenya’s sales

Kenya: Home owners face jail for not installing solar power

Africa is looking to space to power its science, tech, and military ambitions

How to Pull Water Out of Thin Air, Even in the Driest Parts of the Globe

Kenya aims to become the next global center of Islamic finance

Water storage top priority as the rains start

Kiswahili all set to be official in the EAC

E-passport for EAC bloc to be ready January 2018

EU moves to fend off hunger crisis in E. Africa and Yemen

Providing sustainable energy isn’t just about gadgets and dollars

A circular tale of changing food preferences

If you want affordable internet in Africa, move to a country on the coast

A Congo swamp could release the equivalent of 20 years of US greenhouse gas emissions into the air

A startup in Kenya is launching “Uber for ambulances”

Africa, home to a quarter of the world’s arable land, will soon have to import half of its grains

Mobile phones are transforming Africa

African scientists are fostering a new R&D culture to reverse the continent’s brain drain

Govt to offer 1 million online jobs for Kenyan youths

Drought-resistant grass to spur milk production