STORY HIGHLIGHTS In five years, a Nairobi-based glass recycling business has grown from 60 to 140 employees and an annual revenue of $800,000. The business received a $36,000 grant from the World Bank-funded Kenya Youth Employment and Opportunities Project (KYEOP). Through the KYEOP’s MbeleNaBiz Initiative, 750 young Kenyans received grants of $9,000 or $36,000 to…
Washington — THE African Development Bank (AfDB) has pledged to provide a total of 60m US dollars to the Tanzania Agricultural Development Bank (TADB) in 2026 to enhance its capital base further. This was disclosed by the Managing Director of TADB, Frank Nyabundege, at the Embassy of Tanzania on the sidelines of the Annual Meetings…
From his early days in sales to running multiple ventures across coaching, tourism, property, and direct sales, Grant Sherwood has built a career centred on one powerful idea — that the foundation of every successful business lies in the mindset and identity of its leader. With over 14 years of experience in people development and…
Meta, in partnership with Data Science Africa, has announced the winners of the 2025 Llama Impact Grant for Startups and Researchers at the UN General Assembly’s Unstoppable Africa event. The programme, launched in March 2025, forms part of Meta’s global Llama Impact Grants initiative. It supports startups and researchers across Sub-Saharan Africa in applying Meta’s…
Meta’s Llama Impact Grant supports organisations and individuals that leverage Llama to develop solutions tailored for Sub-Saharan Africa. Two local start-ups − Vambo AI and PropelMapper − are among the five winners of the Llama Impact Grant for start-ups and researchers based in Sub-Saharan Africa. In March, Facebook-parent company Meta, in partnership with Data Science…
SA’s National Business Initiative has received a R17 million grant to support youth-driven green skills development. The African Development Bank (AfDB), through the Fund for African Private Sector Assistance (FAPA), has awarded a $1 million (R17.6 million) grant to SA’s National Business Initiative (NBI). The grant, which aims to support green skills development for local…
TLDR Visa, in partnership with Absa, has launched the 2025 edition of its She’s Next programme in South Africa Women-led businesses can apply for over ZAR1 million ($55,000) in grant funding, mentorship, and business training The initiative is part of Visa’s broader mission to support inclusive entrepreneurship and digitally enable small businesses worldwide Visa, in…
WeThinkCode, the organisation launched to develop a programming talent pipeline for companies, has secured R35-million in grant funding to develop and run an AI training programme. The US$2-million grant, from Google.org, will “dramatically expand” WeThinkCode’s artificial intelligence programmes, with a plan to train 12 000 people in South Africa and Kenya in what it calls “critical…
