Charles Rioba is one of the 16 winners of the Lighting Africa Development Marketplace competition. His project “Rent a Light” aims to eliminate the biggest barrier to adoption of modern lighting solutions — cost, through use of powerpacks. The global lighting industry met in Accra, Ghana on 6-8 May, to discuss off-grid lighting opportunities and [...]
Read More Africa, bank, Lighting, solar, worldLife Healthcare Starts Biggest Sub-Saharan Africa IPO (Update1) May 18 (Bloomberg) — Life Healthcare Group Holdings Ltd.’s planned initial public offering in Johannesburg may raise as much as 8.04 billion rand ($1.06 billion), making it the biggest ever IPO in sub-Saharan Africa. Read more on Bloomberg Sub-Sahara Africa Stocks: Fidelity Bank, TPS Eastern Africa May [...]
Read More Africa, bank, Eastern, Stocks, SubSaharaThe World Bank has said that only 24 per cent of the Sub-Saharan Africa population could access electricity in spite of the various intervention to address energy power crisis on the continent by various international agencies.
Read More Africa, bank, crisis, electricity, result, saharan, saharan-africa, spite, world-bankKAMPALA (Reuters) – The World Bank has offered Uganda $1.97 billion in concessional loans over the next five years to help finance the country’s newly-launched National Development Plan (NDP), the World Bank said.
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