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Africa: Connecting Home Solar and Electric Vehicle Batteries to the Grid Could Boost South Africa’s Clean Energy and Strengthen the Electricity System

Africa: Connecting Home Solar and Electric Vehicle Batteries to the Grid Could Boost South Africa’s Clean Energy and Strengthen the Electricity System

South Africa has committed to reaching phasing out human-caused carbon pollution by 2050. To get there, it needs to push as much renewable energy as possible into the national grid. The country is the world’s 15th largest carbon polluter. It’s one of only a handful of countries still heavily dependent on burning coal to generate…

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The story of a Made-in-Nigeria footwear company

The story of a Made-in-Nigeria footwear company

Yinka Atunde Interview with Yinka AtundeFOUNDER and CEO, YIKODEEN Lives in: Lagos, Nigeria ** Due to technical difficulties, this story unfortunately doesn’t have accompanying video or audio.** In 2016, Yinka Atunde established the Nigerian footwear manufacturer Yikodeen. Although the company began by making fashion shoes, it has since carved out a niche in industrial safety…

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Africa: Connecting Home Solar and Electric Vehicle Batteries to the Grid Could Boost South Africa’s Clean Energy and Strengthen the Electricity System

Africa: 39th AU Summit – Malawi CSOs Call On Africa to Unite Against Deceptive Recruitment Schemes

With the 39th African Union (AU) Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, fast approaching, prominent civil society leaders in Malawi are urging African heads of state to issue a unified condemnation of deceptive recruitment practices and the exploitation of Africans in foreign proxy wars. These calls follow a surge in reports regarding deceptive job recruitment by…

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Paratus lights up new East Africa fibre highway linking Goma and Mombasa

Paratus lights up new East Africa fibre highway linking Goma and Mombasa

Paratus Group chief commercial officer Martin Cox Pan-African telecommunications and network services provider Paratus Group has today switched on a major new fibre route in East Africa, directly connecting Mombasa on the Kenyan coast to Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) through a protected terrestrial network. The newly activated 2 000km G2M (Goma-to-Mombasa)…

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