Amplifying African Narratives
Five practical lessons from African women entrepreneurs on building business credibility, choosing suitable capital and preparing companies for sustainable growth.
A new digital playbook profiles 25 women entrepreneurs from 17 African countries and examines how they used different forms of finance to…
A $25 million agricultural programme has reached more than 188,000 Zimbabwean farming households while expanding climate-smart production, farmer finance, digital services and…
Côte d’Ivoire has launched a digital platform to centralise private investment reporting. Its success will depend on whether better data leads to…
The AfDB and 17 African sovereign investors want to mobilise domestic capital for cross-border infrastructure. The test will be whether their partnership…
The 300 MW Aysha Wind Project is testing whether blended finance, a long-term power-purchase agreement and risk mitigation can make private renewable-energy…
A US$400 million African Development Bank loan will link disbursement to independently verified improvements in electricity and water services across four Mpumalanga…
The African Development Bank has mobilised €205 million for Morocco’s high-speed rail expansion, linking passenger mobility to logistics capacity and industrial competitiveness.
UNESCO and Fashionomics Africa show why culture, fashion and heritage are increasingly being treated as economic infrastructure for jobs, exports and entrepreneurship.
A Tunisian organic cosmetics success story points to a wider opportunity for Africa: using science, branding and manufacturing to turn natural resources…