AIC News

The transition to a green economy is expected to create many new jobs around the world, including in sub-Saharan Africa.

International cash payments platform Pipit Global and pan-African payments company Cellulant have extended their partnership agreement to now include eighteen countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Planet42, a South Africa-based car subscription company that buys used cars from dealerships and rents to customers via a subscription model, has raised $30 million in equity and debt.

In a partnership between Energise Africa and Solarise Africa, crowdfunders in the UK have raised over £1 million (approximately $1,32 million) in just days to fund eight large-scale solar energy projects in sub-Saharan Africa.

Activity around African venture capital firms raising funds continues to increase as we head towards the end of the year. In the latest development, Abuja- and Lagos-based Ventures Platform is today announcing the first close of its $40 million pan-African fund.

Dedicated to supporting community-based solutions to engrained social problems, The Nick Maughan Foundation is delighted to support Harpenden Spotlight on Africa further its mission to deliver lasting change to the lives of people in desperate need in Uganda.

Projects include credit to SMEs, roads, electricity networks, schools, warehouses.

At the Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit 2021, representatives of Turkey and African nations discussed how to cooperate to deliver “Enhanced Partnership for Common Development and Prosperity” across crucial sectors such as health care, education, and agriculture – all of which Turkey is a world leader.

The secretary-general of the African Continental Free Trade Area wants Asian investors to seize the opportunity offered by the continent’s 1.3 billion people and $3.4 trillion economic bloc.

Invictus Capital has unveiled its first non-fungible token collection, called “Out of Africa,” through the Invictus NFT Lab. Through this collection, Invictus Capital will showcase fine art via blockchain technology as well as connect artists from Africa with the rest of the world.