Shuttle-hailing tech platform SWVL has today issued an update on the firm’s operations locally, giving a definite direction of the firm’s journey in the near future. Following the continuing discussions with the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA), the firm is nearing full compliance and will be entirely covered under the requisite laws by the end of the month.
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Majid Al Futtaim, the leading shopping mall, communities, retail and leisure pioneer across the Middle East, Africa and Asia, has launched its loyalty program across all its Carrefour stores in Kenya.
The MyCLUB, program as it’s known, is popular in several markets, and is fully digital and accessible through the Carrefour Kenya App, allowing users to collect points based on...
By Doreen Ashimbiwe, Manager- Banking and Financial Services at Microsave Consulting (MSC).
According to the Finscope Survey 2016, the overall gender gap in financial inclusion in Rwanda is relatively small. In terms of the total rate of financial inclusion, women show a difference of 4% percentage points. Eighty-six percent of women are financially included compared to 90% of men. However,...
With floods hitting at least 16 African countries, Greenpeace Africa urges leaders to act for the people and against climate change
Rains have increasingly been torrential in the past months, striking large parts of East Africa and elsewhere, in unprecedented intensity in decades, causing at least dozens of deaths, displacement of more than one million people. Greenpeace Africa (www.Greenpeace.org/africa/en/) calls on...
Senegal’s Oil and Energy Minister Mahamadou Makhtar Cisse used the platform to launch, for the first time in the history of petroleum exploration in his country, a licensing round of three blocks of sediment basin
Several African countries have used the Africa Oil Week (AOW) (https://www.Africa-OilWeek.com) event in Cape Town this week to promote their oil and gas sectors to...
Africa women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) Awards celebrate women entrepreneurs in Africa
Twenty-two women founders and entrepreneurs were selected as finalists, from 10 different African countries, across eight different categories
The Africa women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum annual AWIEF Awards (www.AWIEForum.org), held on October 30, 2019, honoured and celebrated the achievements of women entrepreneurs and innovators across the African continent. Twenty-two...
Former teacher creates job and wealth by crushing bones to make animal feeds
By Special Correspondent
Isaac Njuguna’s workshop near the busy Dagoretti Market can be mistaken for one of the many abattoirs that dot the area. In the compound, a strong stench of rotting flesh and bones waft from the workshop, which is just a few meters away from the...
Rejected at home and abroad, young entrepreneur turns the tables to found a thriving online business
By Staff Writer
It’s not every time that people turn a hobby into a thriving business. For Simon Kimani, he turned his passion in writing into a successful business. In a small office in the residential area of Kasarani in Nairobi, he is busy keying...
By Prof. Bitange Ndemo
Uttered by US civil rights activist Martin Luther King Junior over 50 years ago, these words remain relevant today as new technologies take the centre stage in Africa. Rev King Jr. was fighting for the rights that protect personal freedoms from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.
One of the risks associated with emerging technologies...
Ambitious man breaks the mold to achieve great gains in the business world
By Hustle Correspondent
When Patrick Hunja sat for his secondary school examinations in 2002, he realized that his chances of proceeding to a tertiary institution were quickly diminishing; his family did not have any funds to finance his university education. Not one to give up easily, he eked...
