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18 09 2023 | 14:58

AFRICA: with $50m, GreenMax will facilitate imports of 75,000 EVs by 2025

GreenShift Africa. This is the new platform recently launched in Kenya by US fund manager GreenMax Capital. It will provide financial support for African mobility start-ups in their commercial…

18 09 2023 | 14:50

AFRICA: Catalyst raises $8m to invest in 40 climate start-ups

Kenya-based investment fund Catalyst has just completed a fundraising round that raised $8.6 million to finance 40 African start-ups focused on the climate. Funding for the implementation of the 17…

21 08 2023 | 19:31

AFRICA: intelligent mobility to be discussed in Johannesburg on 1 October

In South Africa, 1,500 participants are expected to attend the 5th Smarter Mobility Africa Summit, which opens on 1 October 2023 in the province of Gauteng, renowned for its efficient rail and road…

21 08 2023 | 19:31

KENYA: BasiGo launches its new “E9 Kubwa” electric bus model

Following the success of the 25-seater K6 electric bus, start-up BasiGo is stepping up a gear in Kenya by announcing the "E9 Kubwa". This new model should make a further contribution to reducing road…

21 08 2023 | 19:11

CAPE VERDE: IFC grants €20m to renovate and decarbonise 7 airports

At a time when the Covid-19 crisis and the war in Ukraine are undermining tourism in Cape Verde, a loan from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) will enable the archipelago of 587,000…

21 08 2023 | 19:11

SOUTH AFRICA: IFC lends $236 million to Absa to finance green buildings

Electricity bills in South Africa could soon be lower thanks to a partnership between Absa Bank and the International Finance Corporation to finance resource-efficient buildings. The International…

21 08 2023 | 19:05

NORTH AFRICA: what the AfDB recommends to accelerate green growth

"The North African Economic Outlook 2023 has just been published.

21 08 2023 | 19:01

MOROCCO/CAMEROON: Yaoundé and Rabat to strengthen their meteorological cooperation

After signing a bilateral agreement on meteorology with Algeria in May 2023, Cameroon has announced that it will be stepping up its cooperation with Morocco to pool their expertise in this field.…

21 08 2023 | 18:56

BENIN/TOGO: a €57m credit line for Spiro’s electric motorbikes

GuarantCo, a company in the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG), and the French bank Société Générale have granted a credit facility of 37.8 billion CFA francs to finance electric…

21 08 2023 | 18:42

DRC: Kinshasa, Jakarta and Brasilia get together for the Three Basins Summit

Aware of the economic and ecological potential of their tropical forests, the presidents of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Brazil and Indonesia have agreed to meet in Kinshasa on 25 August…

30 06 2023 | 06:20

KENYA: Roam inaugurates 3 battery exchange stations for its e-motorbikes in Nairobi

The mobility start-up Roam, the only African company to have been nominated in 2022 in the "air quality" category of the British Earthshot prize for climate action, has just installed a network of…

17 06 2023 | 11:08

RWANDA: a climate-smart farming solution in Musanze

While floods are destroying crops in Rwanda, a digital solution should help to improve farming practices and climate resilience in a number of towns, starting with Musanze, 98 kilometres from Kigali…

17 06 2023 | 11:06

Albin Lazare: “The environment and the SDGs are at the heart of city diplomacy”

Invited to the second International Economic day of Municipalities in Cameroon (JEICOM23), which closed on 3 June 2023 in Cameroon, the International Association of Francophone Mayors (AIMF) gave an…

17 06 2023 | 10:56

AFRICA: the city of today: the test of the demographic explosion and the climate

As the second edition of the International Economic Days of Municipalities in Cameroon (JEICOM23), closed last Saturday at the Congress Hall in Yaoundé, the Afrik21 editorial team takes a closer look…

02 06 2023 | 16:09

AFRICA: Kenyan start-up Amini raises $2m for its climate technologies

With $2 million recently secured from several investment firms, Nairobi, Kenya-based technology start-up Amini is going to war against the lack of climate data that is holding back sustainable…

02 06 2023 | 16:04

SENEGAL: a photovoltaic solar power plant for sustainable agriculture in Saint-Louis

In Senegal, the Société des cultures légumières (SCL) based in the seaside town of Saint-Louis has just acquired a 604 kWp solar photovoltaic park to reduce its dependence on the electricity grid and…

02 06 2023 | 16:03

TOGO: AFD-supports youths recycling waste into art objects in Lomé

Faced with 350 000 tons of household waste produced each year in Lomé, a project financed by the French Development Agency (AFD) is reconciling art and sanitation in Togo's largest city. The fourth…

02 06 2023 | 15:33

MOZAMBIQUE: Maputo and Tokyo in talks to manufacture EV batteries

After having invested US$300 million from the World Bank in the extension of the port of Nampula, the State of Mozambique is in the midst of negotiations with Japan, which should soon install a…

20 04 2023 | 15:21

CAMEROON: Faced with urban congestion, Yaoundé plans Bus Rapid Transit

While the populations of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania or Johannesburg in South Africa use the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) on a daily basis, Cameroon is waiting for the launch of its "Trans-Yaoundé" project…

20 04 2023 | 15:19

MALAWI: after Cyclone Freddy, the UN mobilises $70 million for population resilience

While the cholera epidemic was its main concern until now, Malawi must now deal with the heavy human and environmental consequences of Cyclone Freddy, which devastated nearly 15 districts in its…