Entrepreneurship

Madagascar: UN scheme aims to give youth employment a boost

Wednesday, 17 March 2010 13:20

A year after political violence rocked Madagascar, the United Nations agency dedicated to eradicating rural poverty is helping to generate employment for the Indian Ocean nation's young people while supporting small businesses.

(2 Votes)

Tags: United Nations - International Fund for Agricultural Development - Prosperer - Benoit Thierry - Madagascar

War veterans in Sierra Leone get micro-grants

Friday, 13 November 2009 14:39

Some 20,000 people wounded in Sierra Leone's war are receiving micro-grants as part of efforts to rebuild lives and livelihoods in the still fragile country.

(2 Votes)

Tags: National Commission for Social Action - micro-grants - Amadu Bangura - economy - aid - social - entrepreneur - Sierra Leone

West African youth to benefit from Cocoa development grant

Friday, 02 October 2009 12:24

Over 160,000 people are to benefit from the World Cocoa Foundation Youth Education Programme in West Africa. The programme will focus on young adults in Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana.

(2 Votes)

Tags: World Cocoa Foundation Youth Education Programme - youth - training - agriculture - Ghana - Cote D'ivoire

IBM expands corporate programme in emerging markets

Tuesday, 25 August 2009 12:14

IBM is targeting new countries using its corporate citizenship initiative. The programme provides small businesses, educational institutions and NGOs with free business consulting and skills development to foster job creation.

(2 Votes)

Tags: IBM - corporate citizenship initiative - small business - education - job - employment - technology - skills - consulting - Africa

Ivorian ex-fighters build new businesses

Monday, 27 July 2009 13:55

Combatants from Côte d'Ivoire's civil war are finding jobs in hundreds of new enterprises and projects under a pilot United Nations initiative that aims to reintegrate ex-fighters into their former communities.

(2 Votes)

Tags: combat - reintergration - business - jobs - entrepreneurs - Cote D'Ivoire

From bush to bike - a bamboo revolution

Wednesday, 08 July 2009 16:00

On the outskirts of Lusaka, Zambia, next year's crop of bicycles is being watered by by Benjamin Banda. "We planted this bamboo last year," he says, "When it's ready we'll cut it, cure it and then turn it into frames."

(2 Votes)

Tags: Zambikes - bamboo bicycles - Benjamin Banda - Vaughn Spethmann - Zambia

Africa's biggest resort woos entrepreneurs

Friday, 03 July 2009 14:29

Africa multimillion dollar business and leisure resort, Tinapa, has announced a one full year free rent for entrepreneurs who are willing to do business in the alluring resort.

Tags: Tinapa - one full year free rent - entrepreneurs - business - Nigeria

Microfinance for Togolese HIV/AIDS victims

Tuesday, 16 June 2009 15:04

Small loans to families affected by HIV/AIDS in Togo are making entrepreneurs out of victims, and improving the lives of their children. Given loans from $100 to $1,000 families are able to set up small business projects.

(3 Votes)

Tags: microfinance - families - HIV/AIDS - entrepreneurs - Togo

Senegalese market women receive affordable health insurance

Tuesday, 26 May 2009 11:55

A women's cooperative in Senegal is offering low-cost health insurance to previously-uninsured market women.

(2 Votes)

Tags: market - woman - insurance - health - Senegal

New device lures fish, telephones fishermen

Tuesday, 12 May 2009 09:01

The star attraction on the first day of a national scientific conference in Nairobi was a simple technology that could dramatically change the way small-scale fishermen attract their catch.

(1 Vote)

Tags: Invention - fishing - University of Nairobi - Kenya

African Development Bank bolsters microfinance in DRC

Tuesday, 28 April 2009 13:03

Micro-enterprises and SMEs in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are expected to benefit from an equity investment of US$ 1.1 million by the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Advans Bank of Congo (ABC).

(1 Vote)

Tags: African Development Bank - microfinance - Democratic Republic of Congo

New, private Egyptian airline in the offing

Wednesday, 15 April 2009 16:24

Egypt.Giza.Sphinx.01 An Egyptian former pilot plans to take advantage of the current global economic doldrums to roll out Egypt's first private airline later this year. The country is presently served only by state-owned Egypt Air and charter companies despite drawing large numbers of tourists each year.

(1 Vote)

African game developers target iPhone market

Friday, 03 April 2009 17:47

Eyram Tawia, of Ghana, and Wesley Kiriinya, a Kenyan, are the co-founders of Leti Games, a Ghana-based company that develops applications for the Apple iPhone platform.

(3 Votes)

Tags: Ghana - Kenya

SA and Egyptian entrepreneurs selected for elite network

Tuesday, 17 March 2009 15:33

Entrepreneurs from both Egypt and South Africa have been invited to join a global network of high-impact entrepreneurs, at an Endeavor International Selection Panel (ISP) in New Delhi, India.

(1 Vote)

Tags: South Africa - Egypt

Africa - open for business like never before

Thursday, 19 February 2009 11:36

Michael Kijjambu is fighting an uphill battle. The owner of a small café in Kampala wants to make his country a coffee drinking nation. But Uganda is a country of tea drinkers. When Michael read that Ugandans drink more beer than any other nation in the world, he got a novel idea - make beer out of coffee, fermented coffee beans to be precise. Suddenly, his stylish café is the place to be.

Welcome to entrepreneurship in Africa where big challenges meet even bigger ideas.