SAP launches its SAP Rural Sourcing Management solution connecting smallholder farmers and suppliers in rural areas with the supply chain of global agribusinesses and consumer products companies.
The Direct Pay Online Group, (DPO Group), the leading online payment service provider in Africa with its headquarters in Kenya, enters the second largest populous market in Africa – Ethiopia.
BY AKINWUMI ADESINA (PhD) Africa, like India, is a continent of rich and compelling diversity. Both continents share a similar landscape, a shared colonial history, and similar economic and demographic challenges. This…
In 2016, the United Nations issued a report highlighting the centrality of the livestock sector to the food sector and the promotion of sustainable development.
BY ANDUALEM SISAY GESSESSE The 2017 World Hydropower Congress opened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Tuesday focused on addressing the effects of climate change on hydropower development.
Gulf Air, the Kingdom of Bahrain’s national carrier appoints online travel booking company “Ezeego1.com” as the Gulf Air Holidays back-end service provider.
BY AKINWUMI ADESINA – No region of the world has ever moved to industrialised economy status without a transformation of the agricultural sector. Agriculture, which contributes 16.2% of the GDP of Africa,…
BY ANDUALEM SISAY GESSESSE – The World Bank (WB) on Friday launched a ten years program in Ethiopia that enables the country to reduce its carbon emissions from deforestation. The program among…
Livestock specialists from over 50 countries gather in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to discuss the positive contribution of livestock to the lives and wellbeing of hundreds of millions of people on the planet.
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) will hold its 24th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (AGM) in Kigali next month.
The African Centre for Statistics at the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has launched the Africa Data Revolution Report 2016, a biennial report highlighting developments in African national data ecosystems.
The ability of sub-Saharan Africa’s economies to generate enough jobs for its young and growing population rests on the successful implementation of urgent reforms to boost productivity.
The United Nations High Commission Office for Human Rights, whose Commissioner is on official visit to Ethiopia, urged the country again to open unrest erupted areas for its investigators.
The African Development Bank (AfDB) is bringing together African heads of state to discuss youth in agriculture at its upcoming annual meetings in India, the Bank said.