Archive In Policy

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  Africa’s secret weapon for economic growth and global development. As global headwinds for growth and global development gather strength, an unexpected force is emerging with the power to reignite momentum on both fronts right across the African continent.
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  Weekly Economic Index: Oil prices crash to seven-month low. Below is the Ventures Africa Weekly Economic Index, for the week ending 9th of November, 2018.
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  New report by the London Stock Exchange Group puts SMEs funding gap in Africa at more than $140 billion. Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) make up 90 percent of all companies in Africa, and they provide 80 percent of its employment too.
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  Here’s what you need to know about Africa’s fastest train. Morocco has officially launched Africa’s fastest train which will halve travelling time between the commercial and industrial hubs of Casablanca and Tangier has been inaugurated in Morocco.
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  Weekly Economic Index: AfDB to support Nigeria’s infrastructure drive, oil prices continue to fall. Nigeria, along with 3 other African countries, is set to receive support from the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group to drive infrastructural development.
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  The US Embassy in Ethiopia is set to train 600 youths on creating solutions in their communities. Ethiopia Hacks! just launched the first in a series of 12 hackathons as part of its annual Global Entrepreneurship Week celebration.
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  Malawian government to regulate gold rush as illegal mining gains momentum. An illegal gold mine discovered in Nathenje, a small town not far from Malawi’s capital in Lilongwe just five months ago is attracting a steady stream of people from around the country in search of riches.
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  Akinwumi Adesina and Waris Dirie have been announced as the 2019 Sunhak Peace Prize Laureates. The Sunhak Peace Prize award committee announced that the 2019 laureates would be Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank Group and Waris Dirie, world-class supermodel and anti-FGM (female genital mutilation) activist, for their...
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  UK makes the largest ever investment of £50m to end FGM in Africa by 2030. Over the next five years, the British government will invest the sum £50m from its aid budget in an attempt to end female genital mutilation(FGM) in Africa by 2030.
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  100 years later, it’s our turn to rise to the challenge. Last November 11, we remembered the sacrifices of those people who, one hundred years ago, selflessly gave their lives fighting during World War I to protect our freedoms and our way of life.