JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, September 28, 2021 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- As survivors of a global crisis, bright young professionals are entering the labour market equipped with new skills, fresh perspective, and boundless energy. This is all thanks to a highly successful graduate program driven by SAP and supported by a thriving ecosystem of public and private sector partners and customers. According to Cathy Smith, Managing Director at SAP Africa, while many educational programs struggled with the complex demands of distance learning during the pandemic, the SAP Young Professionals Program went from strength to strength. “By opening our online classrooms to tap into…
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Monthly Conference Explores Growth Opportunities LAGOS, Nigeria, 27 September 2021 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/-Prime Business Africa’s (PBA) Socio-Economic & Entrepreneurship Development Series (SEEDS) for the month of September will attract professionals and trailblazers in Africa’s emerging technology sector.Now in its season 3, the SEEDS conference, a monthly webinar organised by Africa’s independent online newspaper, PBA, is tailored to provide platform for periodic discourse on key issues bordering on socio-economic development of the continent.SEEDS regular host, Dr Marcel Mbamalu, is the Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Prime Business Africa. This month’s edition, which is the 3rd in series, is scheduled to hold virtually, on Tuesday, September…
KAMPALA, Uganda, 27 September 2021 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- Climate change threatens critical water supplies for Africa’s most vulnerable people. This is the central theme WaterAid regional programmes in Africa want to ensure delegates to Africa Climate Week 2021 incorporate in their demands to world leaders meeting at COP26 in November. Africa Climate Week, to be hosted virtually by Uganda and UN partners, begins on Sunday (26th-29th September) as African countries prepare their positions in advance of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) climate summit in the UK. https://unfccc.int/ACW2021 Africa is the most-exposed region to the adverse effects of climate change despite contributing the…
The interim Prime Minister of Mali, Choguel Kokalla Maïga, said on Saturday that “rarely, has a country or region been as severely affected by the piling up of crises than Mali and the states of the Sahel.” NEW YORK, USA, September 27, 2021,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/-Terrorism, violent extremism and instability were a constant threat in the region, and now, “a note of anguish and tragedy has been added by the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic.” The Prime Minister was speaking on the 5th day of the high-level week of the General Assembly. After being held virtually last year due the coronavirus pandemic, this year’s gathering features “hybrid” activities that include leaders in person along with virtual participants. The threat of terrorism Mr. Maïga, who has led the transitional government…
South Sudan continues to be “plagued” by violence and corruption, the Human Rights Council heard on Thursday, jeopardizing the young nation’s efforts to establish lasting peace and put it on the road towards sustainable development. NEW YORK, USA, September 24, 2021,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/-Delivering an update to the forum in Geneva, Deputy UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Nada Al- Nashif, highlighted “staggering levels of localized violence”. She attributed this to community-based militias who were responsible for almost all killings, injuries, abductions and sexual violence between April and June this year. Fight against impunity ‘minimal’ According to the UN Mission in…
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso, 23 September 2021 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- In a worrying resurgence of cholera coupled with COVID-19 pandemic, access to drinking water and decent sanitation in Africa is becoming a matter of life and death. These diseases have amplified the need and urgency for African countries to strengthen sanitation policies that ensure the well-being of their populations. With their mission to monitor government actions, African elected officials through REPHA-Africa, held a public webinar on the 22nd of September, to discuss the African Sanitation Policy Guidelines and define a roadmap for better sanitation. Honourable Jacqueline Amongin participated in the webinar and highlighted that the role of…
LUANDA, Angola, 23 September 2021 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- Angola Cables, a multinational provider of global connectivity solutions has launched a Sales Partnership Programme giving service providers and vendors the opportunity to market a range of products and services such as IP Transit, Remote Peering, Cloud Solutions, IP Gamer and others in the rapidly expanding global ICT market.Last year, spending on cloud infrastructure and services surpassed the US$ 130 billion mark for the first time, according to the Synergy Research Group, demonstrating the potential to expand IT services and solutions across multiple markets. Individual service providers or collective entities with knowledge and experience in…
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, September 23, 2021 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- In the midst of a pandemic, there’s no time to waste in ensuring hospitals run optimally. For leading private hospital group Lenmed, the acquisition of a new hospital sparked a rapid and highly-effective process of onboarding the new facility to its core SAP system that was recognised as the best-in-class at the recent SAP Quality Awards for Customer Success. “We had acquired the Howick Private Hospital, but their users were not familiar with the SAP environment,” says Ashley Strydom, Group CIO and Procurement Head at Lenmed. “We worked with our implementation partner…
Food-manufacturing company hosted the official launch of its RE pilot project in Tembisa, Gauteng on Saturday, 18th September 2021 In celebration of National Recycling Week and Let’s Do It World Clean-up Day 2021, Nestlé East & Southern Africa Region launched its ‘RE-Imagine Tomorrow’ pilot project in Tembisa on Saturday, 18th September. The event was hosted by climate activist and change agent, Catherine Constantinides. Saint- Francis Tohlang, Corporate Communications and Public Affairs Director at Nestlé East and Southern Africa Region (ESAR), highlighted how informal waste reclaimers play an important role in the management of waste. Through the RE-imagine Tomorrow pilot project,…
· Switch to all-virtual model enables teachers from all 16 regions to take part in Train-the-Trainer sessions· Survey reveals teachers wish to continue virtual model even after pandemic subsides· AfriCanCode Challenge mobilises youth enthusiasm for digital skills ACCRA, Ghana, September 22, 2021 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- Despite the dual challenges of low internet penetration and a switch to virtual teaching due to the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers in Ghana have embraced the opportunity to learn 21st century digital teaching skills during this year’s Africa Code Week Train-the-Trainer campaign. Ghana has a fast-growing population that more than doubled from 14.2 million people in 1989 to 28.8 million people in…
· Record number of participants in Bybit’s World Series of Trading (WSOT) 2021 drove up total prize pool to a historic $4.09 million, up from last year’s $1.27 million · 매억남 secured No.1 title as captain of top troop 유튜브매억남 with a staggering 2,044.90% P&L, followed by 금융인 강은호 (1,774.84% P&L) and PepeCup Army (1,417.15% P&L) · A star-studded cast from the esports world: gaming legends from four elite esports clubs dabbled in competitive crypto trading SINGAPORE, 21 September 2021 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- The 2021 edition of the World Series of Trading (WSOT) ended on a high note on Friday. The world’s best crypto traders can now kick back and relax after…
LAGOS, Nigeria, 21 September 2021 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- PAC Capital Limited (“PAC Capital”), a leading transaction advisory firm and the investment banking arm of PanAfrican Capital Holdings, has been announced the winner of the Capital Finance International (CFI) awards for Best Investment Banking Team Nigeria 2021. Following the nomination, screening, and interview processes, the CFI.co judging panel presented PAC Capital Limited with the 2021 award for Best Investment Banking Team (Nigeria) on Monday, 13th of August 2021. “PAC Capital provides opportunities for advancement with a management plan that includes clear metrics for accountability and performance. The company’s investment banking team provides specialized finance advisory on…
· First multi-stakeholder initiative to address global mobile internet access gap has been launched by Vodafone Group and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) as co-chairs via a dedicated Working Group under the auspices of the ITU/UNESCO Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development. · Of the 3.7 billion people not connected to the internet, 3.4 billion live within range of mobile networks but are currently not accessing the internet, partly due to a lack of smartphone ownership1. · Accelerated use of digital public services during the pandemic, mobile money, and the need for digital skills for jobs has made mobile internet access through a smartphone more…
SINGAPORE, 17 September 2021 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- Bybit, a popular platform for crypto lovers around the globe, has announced today its token launch site Bybit Launchpad. The first new token to feature on Bybit Launchpad will be $BIT. Introducing Bybit Launchpad Bybit Launchpad is designed to help connect innovative crypto projects and users who may be interested to gain exposure to promising projects, while protecting users and projects alike. Bybit Launchpad is open to Bybit users who have completed KYC L1, ensuring compliance with local regulatory requirements. “We at Bybit are constantly inspired and amazed by the intrepid and imaginative experimentation in…
African enterprises recognized for excellence in business transformation, public cloud, migration to S/4HANA and achieving rapid time to value. NAIROBI, Kenya, September 16, 2021 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- After a year of unprecedented digitisation of services and business models due to the pandemic, the SAP Quality Awards for Customer Success returned to celebrate African enterprises’ efforts at adopting digital technologies and attaining Intelligent Enterprise capabilities. Nazia Pillay, Head of Customer Success Office Africa at SAP, says: “The past 18 month period has been the single greatest accelerator of digital transformation, as organisations increase their investment in digital technologies to attain greater agility and…
DAKAR, Senegal/GENEVA, Switzerland, 16 September 2021 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) and Speak Up Africa, have announced Conrad Tankou, CEO, GIC Space (Cameroon); John Mwangi, CEO, Daktari Media (Kenya) and Imodoye Abioro, CEO, Healthbotics (Nigeria) as the winners of the Africa Young Innovators for Health Award.The Africa Young Innovators for Health Award is IFPMA and Speak Up Africa’s flagship programme to provide young entrepreneurs in the healthcare sector an opportunity to develop their business ideas and advance promising solutions to support, equip, protect, and train healthcare workers. Applicants must be 18 to 35 years and be a national or resident of an African country.The Award winners will take…
South Sudan has made history with the appointment of two women to senior leadership positions within its Transitional National Legislature, the top United Nations official in the country told the Security Council on Wednesday, as he encouraged parties to build on these gains in efforts to overcome significant political and security headwinds. NEW YORK, USA, September 16, 2021,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/-Nicholas Haysom, UN Special Representative and head of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), said 30 August saw the inauguration of the reconstituted Parliament, with members sworn in on 2 August – including the first female Speaker of the Transitional National…
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, September 15, 2021 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- Truecaller has announced a milestone of 500 customers for its Truecaller for Business offerings. This success has been achieved within a few months of conscientious efforts by the team in helping brands connect with their customers better. The businesses are from more than 25 countries, including Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa, who have adopted the solution to add value to their existing businesses. The offering allows businesses to verify their identities on Truecaller which increases consumer safety by preventing fraud and scam calls. This includes various types of businesses, across large public listed companies,…
Article by Babatunde Oyateru Corporate Identity Crisis NAIROBI, Kenya, 15 September 2021-/African Media Agency (AMA)/-It is no secret that humans anthropomorphise everything; perhaps it is down to the urge to make things more relatable or our need to recreate. Whatever the case, many inanimate, abstract concepts now bear personalities. Because of this, we can think of organisations with personas, and we argue that they should be responsible corporate citizens. In recent times, there has been a tension between the different personalities we have imbued our corporations with, which has resulted in an identity crisis if you will. Is the corporate…
More than 5.7 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered globally, but only 2% of them in Africa, said World Health Organization (WHO) chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Tuesday. NEW YORK, USA, September 15, 2021,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/-The UN agency is urging every country to vaccinate at least 40% of its population by the end of this year, and hopes to help ensure that 70% of the world’s population is by the middle of next year. At a press conference on COVID-19 and vaccine equity in Africa, which is home to more than 1.2 billion people, Mr. Ghebreyesus informed that, so far, just two countries in Africa have reached the 40% target, the lowest of any region. “That’s not because African countries don’t…
NAIROBI, Kenya, September 14, 2021 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- In the highly competitive oil and gas industry, gaining an accurate real-time view over the total performance of every aspect of the business can unlock significant competitive advantages and give organisations a welcome competitive edge over their peers. For one of the fastest-growing energy businesses in Africa, the answer lay in a total transformation of its business processes to become an intelligent enterprise through an ambitious technology deployment that has touched every aspect of the business. “We are now faster in generating sales, order, stocking and pricing data, and can process purchase orders quicker,”…
New data reveals world stepped up to prevent worst-case scenarios from happening; spotlights need for long-term investments to ensure an equitable recovery and continued progress toward the Global Goals SEATTLE, USA, 14 September 2021 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today launched its fifth annual Goalkeepers Report, featuring an updated global dataset illustrating the pandemic’s adverse impact on progress toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (Global Goals). This year’s report, co-authored by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates, co-chairs of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, shows that disparities caused by COVID-19 remain stark, and those who have been hardest hit by…
New $5 million fund seeded by Ford Foundation and MacArthur Foundation will increase leadership capacity, enhance educational opportunities, and build relationships between youth leaders and regional governments LAGOS, Nigeria,13 September 2021 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- Today the Ford Foundation and MacArthur Foundation announced the launch of the Nigeria Youth Futures Fund (NYFF), a new $5 million fund that will support and strengthen the youth leadership ecosystem in Nigeria. In close partnership with LEAP Africa, who will be managing the fund, NYFF will build on momentum in the region inspired by the youth-led #EndSARS movement.Young people under the age of 30 comprise more…
You are invited to the Africa Young Innovators for Health Award Ceremony09:30 GMT | 11:30 CEST | 12:30 EATThursday, 16th September 2021Registration Link: https://bit.ly/3r5bDb9 DAKAR, Senegal/GENEVA, Switzerland, 13 September 2021 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- Join the Africa Young Innovators for Health Award official ceremony to celebrate African Innovation on Thursday, 16 September and discover the first-ever winners of this prestigious Award.Today’s changemakers, innovators, and leaders of tomorrow, African Youth have shown their potential in solving pressing healthcare challenges in their communities, even in the face of an unprecedented global pandemic.The Award is The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) and Speak Up Africa (SUA)’s flagship program celebrating the pioneering…
DAKAR, Senegal/GENEVA, Switzerland, 13 September 2021 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) and Speak Up Africa (SUA) will announce the first-ever winners of the Africa Young Innovators for Health Award at the official virtual ceremony on Thursday, 16 September from 09:30 GMT online (Register here).The three winners will be revealed live at the Award Ceremony, where health leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs gather online to celebrate African innovation. And to highlight the vital role innovation plays, especially amongst young people in Africa, in tackling some of the most pressing healthcare challenges facing healthcare workers on the continent.Award winners will be joined by high-profile personalities…
Students from the College of Business and Economics at University of Rwanda headquarters, Gikondo Campus, Kigali City. KIGALI, Rwanda,13 September 2021 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- The Mastercard Foundation and University of Rwanda today announced a 10-year, $55 million partnership to enable higher education access for 1,200 young Africans — with a focus on women pursuing STEM, young people with disabilities, and refugee and displaced youth — as part of the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program. Launched in 2012, the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program is committed to developing Africa’s next generation of transformative leaders by providing economically disadvantaged students with skills training, leadership development,…
The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Amina J. Mohammed, visited Somalia on Sunday, to express her solidarity with Somali women’s calls for full and equal participation in political life, and the support of the international community for timely, inclusive, peaceful and credible elections. NEW YORK, USA, September 13, 2021,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/-In her various meetings in the capital, Mogadishu, Ms. Mohammed highlighted the country’s parliamentary elections as an opportunity to build on the progress made in women’s political participation. She also emphasized that women’s full inclusion in all sectors of society would contribute to greater resilience, peace, and stability in the…
The global community needs to say with one voice that “attacks on schools must stop”, the UN chief urged a virtual event on Thursday commemorating the International Day to Protect Education from Attack. NEW YORK, USA, September 10, 2021,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/-“Schools must be places of learning, safety and peace”, he said, lauding education as not only providing knowledge and skills but also transforming lives and driving development for people, communities and for societies. Nevertheless, he added, “year after year, this fundamental right comes under attack”. Stretching the imagination The top UN official encouraged the participants to imagine being a child in a classroom eager to learn, or a teacher dedicated to shaping the minds of the next generation. “Now imagine the horrors inflicted…
Mastercard’s Community Pass platform will be added to Paycode’s biometric identity and offline payments solution to unlock services for the underserved and unbanked in Africa Partnership enables offline real-time functionality for effective government disbursements and access to digital financial services in remote communities JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 9 September 2021 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- An estimated 57 percent of the population in Sub Saharan Africa remains financially excluded while close to 30 percent remain without a form of identification and 60 percent of the continent has no internet connectivity, leaving these individuals unable to access government assistance and basic financial services. To address these challenges, Mastercard has partnered…
A deadly outbreak of meningitis has been declared in a northeastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the World Health Organization (WHO) have been supporting health authorities to deploy an initial emergency response team. NEW YORK, USA, September 09, 2021,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/-More than 260 suspected cases and 129 deaths have been reported in Tshopo Province; a high case fatality ratio of 50 per cent, the UN health agency said on Wednesday. Tests carried out by the Institut Pasteur in Paris, detected Neisseria meningitis. It is one of the most frequent strains of the bacterial form of the disease, and it has the potential to cause large…
