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Bamagreen: Phase II – Ayuda en Acción and adaPETation® launch a pioneering circular economy project in Mali with funding from AECID

The project is expected to recover and valorise more than 960 tonnes of plastic waste annually, create 150 jobs, provide training in recycling and circular production to 150 people, and support the planting of 50,000 trees, directly benefiting 8,500 people and indirectly improving the lives of more than 28,300 residents of Bamako In a milestone…

AECID, África, circular economy, green jobs, plastic recycling, Sustainable Development

The future of Cabo Verde is Smart

The institutional opening, led by the Minister of Infrastructure, Victor Coutinho, and the President of Smart City Cabo Verde, Loide Monteiro, reinforced the strategic importance of this initiative Cabo Verde has taken a symbolic and decisive step toward the future with the official launch of Smart City Cabo Verde 2.0. More than an event, this…

África, Cabo Verde, infrastructure, Smart Cities, Urban Innovation, Urban Sustainability

Somaliland in focus for sustainable business development with Sweden

Smart City Sweden, together with Dalarna Science Park and Gästrike Återvinnare, have for two years carried out study visits and introduced projects in the cities of Berbera, Hargeisa and Odweine. Several Swedish companies have been involved to assist with knowledge and competence as well as materials in recycling and waste management, solar-powered street lighting, cooking…

África, Collaboration, Smart City, Smart City Sweden

The Africa Digital Inclusion Facility approves grants worth $1.3M for two research efforts to enhance women’s digital access to loans and micro-insurance

The three-year project will have three phases: product development, piloting and scaling The grants, for $1 million and $300,000 respectively, will be disbursed through the Africa Digital Financial Inclusion Facility, a blended finance vehicle supported by the Bank, to two financial technology firms, Pula Advisors Kenya Ltd., and M-KOPA Kenya Ltd. Pula Advisors will use…

AFAWA, África, digital inclusion, finacial services, funding, M-KOPA, Pula Advisors, women entrepreneurs

New project to boost sustainable wildlife management and food security in southern Africa

FAO and the French Development Agency (AFD) launched a new 3.5 million Euro project Southern Africa’s Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, which straddles Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, each year experiences large scale migrations of megafauna, in particular elephants, where 50 percent of the total population of African elephants can be found. However, the area…

AFD, África, FAO, Gilles Kleitz, Mette Wilkie, smartcity, smartnews, sustainablecities

The Rockefeller Foundation announces grant to expand access to COVID-19 testing and tracing in Africa

This funding will support a broader effort to accelerate equitable access to testing technologies The Rockefeller Foundation has announced a new grant of US$12 million to the Africa Public Health Foundation to help expand the geographic coverage of testing and to strengthen contact tracing for COVID-19 in Africa through the Africa Centres for Disease Control…

África, Africa CDC, Covid19, Francisco Songane, Rockefeller Foundation, smartcity, SmartHealth

Nigeria: BUA, Chinese Firm Sign Pact to Build U.S.$1.05 Billion Cement Plants

Sinoma wont help BUA in its aspiration to be the best cement manufacturer in Africa. These three new plants are in addition to BUA Cement's already existing six mmtpa plants in Edo State, three mmtpa plants in Sokoto State and another three mmtpa BUA Cement plant in Adamawa - which will be inaugurated in second…

África, BUA Cement's, China, Nigeria, SINOMA, smartbuilding, smartcity, sustainable architecture

Small Batches of Rwandan Coffee Pack Big Punch in World Market

One reason cooperatives are attracting smallholder farmers is the need to access the international market and gain production and management skills They may be from the smallest country in eastern Africa, but coffee farmers in Rwanda can still compete in the international market with giant coffee exporters like Colombia, Brazil and Mexico. The way they…

África, agrosmart, Coffee, productivity, Rwandan

A framework agreement of cooperation between IsDB and Standard Chartered Bank

Restore Track Program aimed to supporting IsDB’s member countries’ private sector through stimulus packages to the economic sectors most impacted by the CoVID19 pandemic. IsDB President Dr. Bandar Hajjar and M. Sunil Kaushal, CEO for Africa and Middle East, Standard Chartered Bank (SCB), signed a Memorandum of Agreement to participate in IsDB’s Restore Track Program…