Early life Reginald Abraham Mengi was born into a poor family in Northern Tanzania and raised in a mud hut which the family shared with cows, sheep, goats and chickens. He had one meal a day and sometimes none at all and walked to school barefoot. Notwithstanding these circumstances he managed to study accountancy and articles with Cooper Brothers…
* * * * **************************************************************************** **************************************************************************** **************************************************************************** **************************************************************************** **********************TUNIS, Tunisia,** February 6, 2013/ *– *Building on its Kenyan experience in the East African Rift Valley with the Menengai geothermal project, the African Development Bank (http://www.afdb.org) is working on an ambitious geothermal development program for Africa.**** Apart from the gigantic projects such as the 400 MW geothermal development project…
** * * **************************************************************************** **************************************************************************** **************************************************************************** **************************************************************************** **********************TUNIS, Tunisia,** February 5, 2013/ *– *The African Water Facility offered a 1 million euro grant to the Community Integrated Development Initiatives (CIDI) to support their Kawempe Urban Poor Sanitation Improvement Project (KUPSIP). The project is designed to provide affordable and sustainable sanitation services to over 100,000 urban poor living in…
** **************************************************************************** **************************************************************************** **************************************************************************** **************************************************************************** **********************MONROVIA, Liberia,** January 30, 2013/ *– *Nobel Peace Prize winner and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf issued a stark warning in Monrovia on Wednesday to the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel that is meeting this week to address the future of international poverty reduction efforts, noting that economic losses due to poor water and…
Over $75,000 USD to be awarded to 2013 Anzisha Prize finalists between 15 and 22 years old. February 2013, Johannesburg – Applications for the 2013 Anzisha Prize have opened and the search is on to find Africa’s most inspiring youth entrepreneurs. Last year, prize hosts African Leadership Academy and the MasterCard Foundation crisscrossed the continent whittling down hundreds of…
Nairobi Kenya: PesaPoint has today announced that Family Bank’s services have gone live across its over 1000 ATMs and agent banking outlets across the country. Effectively, the bank’s customers will now be able to access their cash at a PesaPoint ATM nearby and PesaPoint branded ATMs and agents countrywide. PesaPoint also announced that Family Bank’s own ATMs had been…
By Emmanuel D Tayari There is nothing more important, at this critical time of a year, than planning ahead on areas of improvements for the next year. One of the main areas of which I thought all of us need improvement for the next year, is saving and Investments. To allow us to understand more, I have collected these…
** * * ********** *Orange and Baidu partner exclusively on an enhanced mobile browser for customers in Africa and the Middle East* ********** *Exclusive partnership to help drive mobile data adoption in markets where Orange is seeing an increased demand for mobile data and smartphones* **- **Baidu signs its first global operator agreement with Orange, on an exclusive…
** ** * * ********** *FRUIT LOGISTICA 2013 welcomes you to share in its success!* ********** *Last year 13 countries of Sub Sahara Africa presented their products to 56,000 trade visitors from 139 countries* **************************************************************************** **************************************************************************** **************************************************************************** **************************************************************************** **********************BERLIN, Germany,** January 14, 2013/ *– *FRUIT LOGISTICA (http://www.fruitlogistica.de/en) is the world’s leading international trade fair for the fresh fruit…