This announcement follows the recent launch of Hilton’s Travel with Purpose 2030 goals to double its investment in social impact and cut its environmental footprint in half across the globe
Hilton (NYSE:HLT) (newsroom.Hilton.com) today announced an initial investment of USD$1 million to drive sustainable travel and tourism in Africa. To do so, the company will focus on five key areas -...
The nation’s most extraordinary beer, Guinness, has today unveiled an exciting new partnership with legendary English Premier League football legend, Rio Ferdinand. Best known for his time playing for The Red Devils, Ferdinand will be working with Guinness over the next 12 months to find and celebrate Kenyan football fans Made of More.
As part of the activities, the former...
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The Pan African University Institute for Water and Energy Sciences (including Climate Change) (PAUWES) Celebrates its Third Graduating Cohort of 79 Students from Across Africa
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This year’s graduating students are about to constitute the next generation of engineers and policymakers committed to addressing the issues critical to Africa’s sustainable development
The Pan African University Institute for Water and Energy Sciences including Climate Change (PAUWES) (www.PAUWES.dz) celebrated the third graduating class of both the engineering and policy tracks of our Masters programmes in Water and Energy. The graduating...
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VERONICA WROE’S 1934 ROLLS ROYCE BOATAIL WINS 2018 CBA AFRICA CONCOURS D’ELEGANCE
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In what went down as one of the closest podium tussle in recent years, Veronica Wroe's 1934 Rolls Royce Boatail needed just one point to beat the 1977 Nissan 160J of Sati Gata-Aura to clinch her maiden CBA Africa Concourse d'Elegance. Such was the drama and glamour which treated an enthusiast crowd to some exhilarating displays of the car...
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Safaricom partners with Kenya Alliance of Residents Association (KARA) to launch estate surveillance initiative
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The pilot project seeks to utilize Safaricom home Fibre and cloud services
Safaricom (NSE: SCOM) through the fibre to the home initiative has partnered with Kenya Alliance of Residents Association to increase security in member estates with a pilot project launched in Ngei Estate phase 2, Langata.
Safaricom is seeking to utilize its Fibre to the Home and Cloud services...
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African Development Bank seeks partnerships to lift 1 billion people out of hunger globally
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“We must not get carried away: we are not winning the war against global hunger”
INDIANAPOLIS, United States of America
The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) called on global partners to join hands to lift one billion people worldwide out of hunger and said it was leading the way by investing US$24 billion in African agriculture over the next 10 years...
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Nutrition Africa Investor Forum to help raise finance for high-impact nutrition businesses in the continent
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Nutrition Africa Investor Forum (NAIF) is a first-of-a-kind event, hosted by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), in partnership with Royal DSM, the SUN Business Network (SBN) and African Business magazine, that aims to position nutrition as a promising new investment area
GENEVA, Switzerland
Over 200 delegates, including dealmakers, entrepreneurs and investors will meet at the Nutrition Africa Investor Forum...
Five-time Grammy winner Diane Reeves and Kenya’s AdHoc to headline Naivasha show
This year’s Safaricom Jazz lounge will feature an additional show at the Hell’s Gate National Park in Naivasha on Mashujaa Day on 20th October. This will be in addition to the Nairobi show which will be taking place two days earlier at Uhuru Gardens. Globally acclaimed...
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Tuskys launches premium multi-brand consumer electronics departmental store
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Local retailer, Tusker Mattresses, has moved to enhance its service offering in the premium market category, with the scheduled launch of a dedicated consumer electronics’ departmental store this weekend.
According to Tusker Mattresses Group CEO, Dan Githua, the firm, will be investing more than Kshs 200million in the development of ‘shop in shop’ electronics stores at Tuskys Hypermarket...
NEW YORK, United States of America
ender gaps in agriculture in Africa are holding back progress towards ending hunger and must be urgently addressed, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's Director-General José Graziano da Silva said at a joint event with the African Union (AU) on the margins of the UN General Assembly.
"We need to better recognize and harness the...