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AUDA-NEPAD confirms Hubert Danso as Chairperson of Continental Business Network

Introduction to Blockchain for Trade: An ITC-WTO E-learning Course
Egypt launches new global logistics technology

AfDB approves $50 million trade finance

Port of Luanda goes live with cloud TOS
Germany car makers double down on Africa
UK enter agreements with 14 African countries
Beyond digital gold: unlocking the value of bitcoin
UN and EIF launch guide on paperless trade
Ghana Aviation signs trade agreement
New funding opportunities for entrepreneurs
Mapped: the top export in every country
How does today’s tech compare to dotcom era
Walmart blockchain supply chain proving value
MTN Ghana to become digital operator by 2023
Construction of vehicle plant in Uganda in progress
Ghana, Nigeria propose joint council
Civil aviation asks data on export to Africa market
Foodco expands apparel and personal care business
Can Africa remain fast growing consumer market
Africa’s M&A’s gain momentum during Covid-19
How B2B sales have changed during Covid-19
Stop sabotaging digital transformation
Ecommerce in Europe: €717 billion in 2020
Funding: Corporates turn to commercial papers
Chinese automaker to produce electric cars in Egypt
Africa deal roundup: 15 noteworthy deals
AfDB joins WTO to support trade finance
How automation is enabling remote working
First public road by private investors in Kajiado
COFINA raises 4 billion francs to finance SMEs
EU signs Sh602 million deal to fund safe trade
GRA beefs up customs staff at ports
African Development Bank Covid-19 response
Nigeria’s state oil firm investing in healthcare
Tackling Covid-19 in sub-saharan Africa
Africa’s tech industry can kickstart job market
UN to build transport and trade resilience
African e-commerce is getting a boost
China Mobile and Facebook to build 2Africa
Ai AfricaPLC Releases AfCFTA e-Trade Digitalization Report

ICC and Africa investor launch global eTrade partnership to digitise five million SMEs in Africa

Africa investor (Ai) Group Chairman, Hubert Danso, commends launch of AfCFTA
Is Big Tech Setting Africa Back?
DHL’s Saloodo! partners AfricaPLC to grow intra-African and global trade
essDOCS and AfricaPLC partner to accelerate use of digital trade documents in Africa
Health tech pins hope on Africa’s pandemic shift to online care

AU Summit Africa Business Forum addresses ‘Making Development Investable

Unleashing The Power Of The Institutional Investor-Public Partnerships Framework’s Presidential Climate Investment Authority

Institutional Investment Community Urged To Speak Up To Help Improve Private Capital Mobilization

Private Capital Mobilisation – Why We Need To Speak Up, Not Just Pay Up

First Movers Coalition Engages Ai’s Dr. Hubert Danso On CleanTech Investing

African NDC Investment Awards Announced During G7 Summit– Call For Entries

Funding Vital Emerging & Developing Market Projects: How GEMS And Private Markets Can Help Achieve Scale

Dr. Hubert Danso, Ai Chair, Talks GEMs Future With ARC Ratings

Africa investor (Ai) Rallies Institutional Investors during IDA Africa Presidential Summit

MDB Private Capital Mobilization Market Failure Elevated At World Bank Meetings

Dr. Hubert Danso Speaks to the Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance at the Summit for A New Global Financing Pact

How The AU Can Confront Africa’s Unaddressed Scope 3 Equivalent In Private Capital Mobilization

Cheers to the New Year

Africa investor (Ai) at COP28 Newsletter

Bankers Push World Bank To Unlock Secret Data For Climate Loans

His Excellency Sheikh Shakhboot Bin Nahyan Highlights United Arab Emirates Commitments To Africa At The Conference Of The Parties (COP28)

Mercer unpacks Asset Allocation at The COP28 Africa Investment Earthshot Leaders’ Summit

Africa investor (Ai) supports the Africa Climate Summit

Green Industrial Cities Make Africa ‘renewable energy superpower’

Africa investor-Ai applauds AFCFTA Business Summit Leadership

African Green Infrastructure Investment Bank announced by institutional investors

African Green Infrastructure Investment Bank announces $20trn Advisory Board at G7 Africa investor Summit

The African Heads of State and Government-Institutional Climate Finance Dialogue Namibia Launches Commodity-Backed Fund

Namibia Launches Commodity-Backed Fund

Zambia, DRC seal agreement on manufacturing electric vehicle batteries

Business leaders have to play a better political role

Happy New Year! Wishing you a healthy & Prosperous 2022

Exploring the Benefits of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)
Institutional investors set priorities for COP 27 in Africa
Africa investor briefs World Trade Organisation on its African Continental Free Trade Area initiatives
The Investable Africa We Want and Agenda 2063

African institutional investors release groundbreaking COVID-19 response & Agenda 2063 Investment Report

African Green Infrastructure Investment Bank announced by institutional investors
African Green Infrastructure Investment Bank announced by institutional investors
China-Africa trade falls 10 per cent on pandemic, commodities slump
COVID-19 drives large international trade declines in 2020
e-Conomy Africa 2020: Africa’s $180 billion internet economy future

$23M of Angel Fair Africa deals after 7 years

Uganda approves Tullow Oil $575m assets sale to Total
Africa needs urgent trade finance boost in the wake of Covid-19
INVESTABLE AFRICA AND AGENDA 2063
The Investable Africa We Want and Agenda 2063
AfCFTA eTRADE DIGITALIZATION ROADMAP
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AfricaPLC ICC 5 Million SME
Africa Continental Free Trade
Exporting to Africa: A Beginner’s Guide

Regulation as a Stimulus (RaaS) initiative launched by UNDP, Africa investor (Ai) and AfCFTA Secretariat

Opportunities for Africa entrepreneurs in new funding challenge
Rules of origin key to success of AfCTA
Export Trading Group secures US$400m from Afreximbank
AfCFTA: Keeping the dream alive from agreement to implementation
AfCFTA: African Union to Speed Up Industrialisation to Overcome Pandemic
AfCFTA to take-off January 2021
How Africa’s Free Trade Agreement would reduce Covid0-19’s impact
The African Continental Free Trade Area from agreement to implementation
COVID-19 accelerates greater trade coordination in East Africa
AfCFTA will push on even if virus second-wave hits
Exclusive Q&A – US Exim’s Judith Pryor discusses trade in Africa
Afreximbank bids to launch its first office in Central Africa
Central Bank of Egypt launches export credit risk company
AfCFTA under spotlight as Nigeria hosts national forum on historic agreement
Expert analysis: Africa’s free trade area – where are we now?
Afreximbank establishes East Africa office to address “yawning gap” in coverage

AfCFTA set to launch but will face major challenges

Africa develops it’s Transport 4.0 Strategy
Nigeria accounts for only 1% African imports
African leaders sign continental free-trade agreement
Agribusiness
NCZ to produce 23,000 metric tons fertilizer
Tanzania increases avocado prices
Cocoa processor in Cameroon invests US$73.8m
Sustainable cold chain systems in Rwanda
Three counties enter coffee marketing deal
FG revives 300-hectares farm, engages 400 youths
Can Agriculture replace oil in Nigeria
Italian companies partner up in Egypt
Egyptian cheese companies new partnership
Agribusiness investor reveals investment keys
Nigerian startup ColdHubs secures funding
Kenya seeks warehouses in China for more sales
Microsoft invests R40m into SA’s agricultural sector
Bama gets Nigerian factory
Kenyan government receives bids for five sugar firms
How investments can beef up Africa’s economy
JICA provides $600m loan to COCOBOD
PZ Cussons sell food subsidiary to Friesland WAMCO
SA vs Coronavirus: Exports keeping agriculture afloat
The world’s food system needs to change
Building forward with digital Agriculture
UK now third biggest buyer of Kenyan goods
Profit-making idea: producing supergrain fonio in Mali
Ugandan coffee exports fetch US$42.48m
Tanzania’s exports of cloves, sisal, gold go up
Sustainable cassava seed in Africa gets new phase
Food security in Africa during and after Covid-19
Ghana COCOBOD launches US$600m
Togo: AFDB approves $3 million loan
U.S. farming body and Zambian firm partner
Corona cuts macadamia gate prices by 75 percent
Protecting Africa’s food systems from farm to fork
Tomato paste in Nigeria: The story of Tomato Jos
GBFOODS completes ₦20 billion tomato factory
Safarico’s farming app sows change in Kenya
FrieslandCampina attains record high milk collection
Rwanda: bamboo-to-toilet paper factory
AFDB roadmap to safeguard food security
Food- and agri-tech startups seizing the opportunity
What will it take to avoid a global food shortage
Mozambique expands cotton and cashews
Kenyan sugar imports rise by 23%
Egypt’s olive sales to Brazil up 210%
COVID-19 Update: Food price in Kenya still  on high
Zamseed clinches US$5m from SilverStreet Capital
Safeguarding food security in sub-saharan Africa
African countries urged to retool production
Nigeria: Produce More, No Money to Import Food
Naspers to invest another R300m in local businesses
South Africa’s Tiger Brands $30 mln impairment
Importers cry foul as KRA pulls plug on cargo firms
Rwandan chili on China’s e-commerce platforms
Tea: a love that has stood the test of time
Rwanda brewers stare at lower earnings
Zimbabwe invests in pig project to boost production
Farmers adjust to changing precipitation
RwandAir secures deal to transport fish
Pioneer Food Cannery resumes operations
ITC unveils market price portal for agricultural
COVID-19: Sugar producers call for VAT exemption
Healthcare
Nigerian company to export syringes to Germany
Healthcare of India, Africa plan mega collaboration
Ethiopian, Kenya to fly Covid-19 vaccines to Africa
China’s BGI wins 1.5 million test kit from Ethiopia
PM Abiy inaugurates commercial factory
Cameroonian e-health startup raises $2.4m funding
Nigeria’s 54gene to launch Lagos genomics facility
Covid-19 drug, Remdesivir, arrives in SA
Medical imports up 71pc ahead of March virus case
Medical Stores to separate from IDC
SA’s Aspen to supply dexamethasone in covid-19
Tech to keep vaccines from heat damage
Egyptian e-health startup Chefaa raises 7-figure
New education portal Student360 launches
Egypt’s Eva Pharma granted licence for remdesivir
Creso Pharma’s SA sales begin with cannamics
NNPC commences N21 billion medical facility
CDC co-invests with Novastar Ventures in mPharma
Zoscales invests in Pioneer Diagnostics Center
Morocco Launches COVID-19 Tracking Application
Tana acquires stake in Alexandria medical company
Covid-19 heightens need for pharmaceutical production
Ventilators to be manufactured in Africa
Scaling up African pharmaceutical manufacturing
South Africa’s Dis-Chem bids $23mln for Baby City
Health care virtualisation in a global pandemic
Reddington Hospital first open heart surgery
Coronavirus: Algeria to produce 15-minute testing kits
DFC announces new global health initiative
Helium Health Raises $7m in New Funding Round
Kaduna ICT Hub funds inventor to produce ventilators
Nigeria’s 54gene launches mobile Covid-19 testing lab
Strengthening value chains in medical supplies
Nigerian military begins mass production of ventilators
Ghana government to invest in healthcare infrastructure
Minet, clinic launch telemedicine service
CBN issue guidelines for N100bn pharmaceutical fund
Covid-19 impact on Africa’s trade and integration
Egypt launches mobile application to track coronavirus
We’re engaging local auto firms to produce ventilators

CACOVID to upgrade medical facilities in Nigeria

Visa Foundation commits $210 Million to Covid-19
Chairman Reed on EXIM’s Covid-19 response
US $78m Disease research centre to be built in Kenya
Construction of Covid-19 ward in Namibia begins
Uganda permits manufacturers to turn ethanol sanitizers
CBN release FX to investors to boost medical supplies
Babylon 10-year partnership with Rwanda
Egypt’s DentaCarts identifies lucrative niche
Kenya new hospital for the healthy
SME Success Stories
How Aliko Dangote became the richest person in Africa
Amazon acquires self-driving startup Zoox from Senegalese-born CEO for over $1.2bn
The new wave of fine jewelers bringing African luxury to the world
Startups must apply “Africa discount” when fundraising – Helium Health
Supplier Development Programme
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Join the Ai development programme and grow your business
Excess and obsolete inventory is killing your business – 9 ways you can survive
Listen to Podcasts
ACCION: A great company going into COVID is invariably a great company coming out
AFDFinTech: Blockchain Entrepreneurs 2
AFDFinTech: Blockchain Entrepreneurs 1
IMF: Africa’s Outlook
CFA: Investing in Africa is Now
IMF: Digitalizing Sub-Saharan Africa
IMF: Systemic hazards and the spheres of well-being
IMF: Migration part and parcel of global economy
IMF: Food security in sub-Saharan Africa
Technology
Nigeria is now the No.2 bitcoin market on this fast-growing global marketplace
Africa is already connected not by Facebook and Google
Africa’s mobile phone and population growth in the 21st century
CredoLab raises USD 7 million to expand its market reach in Africa and other new markets
Rwanda Harnesses Technology to Fight COVID-19, Drive Recovery
AUDA-NEPAD launches MSME Academy for Africa’s Micro Small and Medium Enterprises
Facebook’s connectivity investments to grow Africa’s economy by $57 billion
Amazon launches smart shopping trolley that knows what you’re buying
A ‘second renaissance’ for African payments post Covid
Thinking B2B: B2B marketing in a recession
African nations have finally awoken to the digital tax dash
Google launches balloon-powered internet service in Kenya
What does 1GB of mobile data cost in every country?
Making trade facilitation gender sensitive
Making trade facilitation gender sensitive
Graduates of Africa’s first drone accelerator programme announced
Meet the UK-South Africa Tech Hub alumni who have expanded into UK market
The fate of Uber cash in Africa as e-hailing giant dumps fintech dream
South Africa’s MTN allows customers to pay for online shopping using mobile money
Expert panel unpacks recent POPI Act announcement
Africa’s e-health sector booming as startup numbers and investment reach record high
Uber partners with Vodafone in Ghana for new Service Uber Connect
Andela is closing its offices in Africa and selling property
Government study projects 50% growth in e-commerce amid Covid-19
Trade Finance
AfDB approves $50 million trade finance
Bolero brings electronic bill of lading to platform
Artis Finance takes aim at trade finance gap
Development banks to align trade finance with SDGs
Trade Finance in Africa: trends over the past decade
Trade finance provides ‘systemic liquidity’ to market
TIAST, Stanbic sign MoU to boost cassava industry
Morocco’s OCP teams up with Cote d’Ivoire
Afreximbank provides update on Mansa platform
Total secures ECA- deal for Mozambique LNG project
TDB and World Bank Group pen two trade deals
After $9 billion credit hit, banks seek finance revamp
Afreximbank’s deal with ITFC to boost food exports
Tradeshift targets African suppliers with US$1.5bn
AfDB joins WTO to support trade finance
CDC, Société Générale take on Africa’s trade finance gap
CDC & Societe Generale boost Africa with $100 million
IFC supports SBSA of SA to help it lending to SME
Cocobod refutes that banks are reluctant
SwedFund injects Sh600m for SMEs
IFC to help Nigerian businesses battle coronavirus
COFINA GABON raises 4 billion CFA Francs
Ghana’s Sumundi helps small shopkeepers
ITFC to support trade finance in struggling Senegal
TDB signs risk-sharing deal with OPEC
Sudan “hopeful” despite precarious political situation
Nigeria’s agro-processing venture raised $4.2 million
CDC Group unveils record levels of finance to Africa
Egypt to loan EgyptAir $127 mln to help through crisis
Virus drives “unprecedented” levels of EBRD trade
BACB continues expansion of Anglophone Africa
FMDQ lists FMN bonds, infrastructure fund
Russia’s trade with Africa: smoke and mirrors?
Corporate Q&A: “Infrastructure challenge in Africa”
Africa’s BMCE bank eyes Dh734m trade finance
IFC risk-sharing deal to support Nigerian SMEs
IFC adds Nigerian bank to trade finance program
Tanzanian railway project wins deal
Oil-dependent Nigeria “undermined” by financing
UK investors take aim at African trade finance
Absa gets Miga guarantees to reduce RWA
Chubb takes stake in ATI to boost African trade
ITFC seeks to boost Arab-Africa trade
Absa inks risk participation agreement with AfDB
VTB Bank signs trade finance pact with Afreximbank
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Testimonials
"AfricaPLC supports the African Continental Freedom Trade Area, by connecting African business with procurement and trade opportunities with governments, corporations and humanitarian aid agencies."
Hubert Danso
CEO and Chairman
AUDA Continental Business Network
"We welcome and support the AfricaPLC initiative and its mission to support African SME’s access markets within and outside the continent."
Wamkele Mene
Secretary General
African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat
"ICC is pleased to partner AfricaPLC, which assists our global chamber network trade with Africa and Africa trade with the world."
John Denton
Secretary General
International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
"AfricaPLC solves the challenge of disconnected markets by connecting buyers and sellers for continental projects."
Solomon Asamoah
CEO
Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund
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