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  • Africa’s regulators are smothering its innovators

    Posted on :Friday , 23rd September 2016

     The birth of mobile money transfer in Kenya has raised optimism about the potential of the continent to leapfrog in other technologies. However, Africa’s mobile technology is starting to look like an exception despite efforts to create start-ups using emerging technologies and platforms such as drones, 3D printing, robots and machine learning.

    There are many reasons for th. . .

  • Good news for farmers as Danish firm exports first batch of processed coffee

    Posted on :Thursday , 22nd September 2016

     A Danish firm has exported the first batch of locally processed coffee, raising farmers’ earnings more than three-fold.

     
    Africa Coffee Roasters (ACR), set up by Denmark’s largest retail chain, produced 300 kilogrammes of the shelf-ready commodity on Friday.
     
    This marks the start of local processing of high-value coffee . . .

  • Ethiopia: Artistic Printing Privatized

    Posted on :Wednesday , 14th September 2016

     Artistic Printing Enterprise, one of the public enterprises in Ethiopia, has been privatized by a joint venture formed between Feleke Trading PLC and Corporate Computer Center PLC. The joint venture is declared to have won the bid after submitting a bid price of 329 million Birr.

     
    Representatives of the joint venture concluded the privatization agreement with M. . .

  • Plarning ahead: ‘Plastic yarn’ project to provide sleeping mats to Kenyan villages

    Posted on :Thursday , 1st September 2016

     Got a little time on your hands and want to do some good?

     
    Join Kenya Relief and some local church members in crafting some much-needed necessities — items that will find their way to the impoverished Third World — out of plarn.
     
    What is plarn?
     
    Short for “plastic yarn,” plarn i. . .

  • Kenyan Incubator Sote Hub invests in 3D printing start-up Re-Decor

    Posted on :Thursday , 25th August 2016

     For the past couple of years, Kenya’s Sote Hub has been cultivating a creative atmosphere of innovation amongst the younger community in the rural county of Taita Taveta. Specifically targeting high school students and recent graduates who’ve yet to enter the white collar workforce, Sote Hub is working to encourage younger generations to take more creative, entrepreneurial rou. . .

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