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Ecobank Transnational Incorporated

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    • Ecobank SADC Cluster Head, Mr. Moses Kurenjekwa (2nd right) and Zimbabwe’s Head of Customer Experience, Mr. Tichaona Gandanhamo (2nd left) with The Banker’s Bank of The Year Award trophies for Benin, Guinea, Liberia, Mali and Togo. The five affiliates defied stiff competition to emerge the best in their respective markets. They were flanked by officials from The Banker Awards team.
    • Ecobank SADC Cluster Head, Mr. Moses Kurenjekwa (2nd right) displays the first ever ‘Global Award for Financial Inclusion 2023’ trophy won by Ecobank Zimbabwe. Mr. Kurenjekwa was accompanied by Zimbabwe’s Head of Customer Experience, Mr. Tichaona Gandanhamo
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Five Ecobank affiliates win Bank of the Year 2023 awards and Ecobank Zimbabwe wins Global Award for Financial Inclusion in The Banker’s Awards 2023

Ecobank Benin, Ecobank Guinea, Ecobank Liberia, Ecobank Mali and Ecobank Togo were all named ‘Bank of the Year 2023’ in their respective countries

Ecobank (www.Ecobank.com), the leading pan-African Banking Group, is proud to announce that Ecobank Zimbabwe has won the ‘Global Award for Financial Inclusion’ in The Banker’s Awards 2023. In addition, Ecobank Benin, Ecobank Guinea, Ecobank Liberia, Ecobank Mali and Ecobank Togo were all named ‘Bank of the Year 2023’ in their…

African Development Bank Group (AfDB)

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    • Youth-led African enterprises awarded $800,000 at Conference of the Parties (COP28) for climate solutions
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Youth-led African enterprises awarded $800,000 at Conference of the Parties (COP28) for climate solutions

They will also receive a comprehensive mentorship and coaching as part of a 12-month accelerator program

Eight dynamic African young women-led businesses emerged as winners of the 2023 YouthAdapt challenge. Each business will receive grant funding of up to $100,000. They will also receive a comprehensive mentorship and coaching as part of a 12-month accelerator program. Since its launch in 2021, the YouthADAPT initiative (https://apo-opa.co/49ZU0zH) has…

Afreximbank

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    • Afreximbank’s President Oramah emerges FORBES AFRICA’s 2023 Person of the Year
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Afreximbank’s President Oramah emerges FORBES AFRICA’s 2023 Person of the Year

Nominations for FORBES AFRICA Person of The Year are submitted by members of the magazine’s editorial and research teams, including journalists from its bureaus across Africa

The President of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) (www.Afreximbank.com), Prof. Benedict Oramah, today in Cairo received the FORBES AFRICA magazine 2023 Person of The Year award. At a well-attended award ceremony, which also included the unveiling of the cover for FORBES AFRICA’s December 2023/January 2024 edition featuring Prof. Oramah as…

World Rugby

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    • Rugby: South Africa men and Australia women claimed the first titles of HSBC SVNS 2024 with victory in Dubai
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    • Rugby: South Africa men and Australia women claimed the first titles of HSBC SVNS 2024 with victory in Dubai
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Rugby: South Africa men and Australia women claimed the first titles of HSBC SVNS 2024 with victory in Dubai

The HSBC SVNS action continues in Cape Town on 9-10 December

South Africa’s Blitzboks overcame a spirited Argentina 12-7 to lift their fifth straight Emirates Dubai 7s trophy – equaling the record for successive titles at a single location. Although Argentina had to settle for silver it represented their best ever result in Dubai. Interview of the Captain of South Africa…

The Presidency, Republic of Ghana
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Ghana: The Application Of Smart Solutions To Agriculture Is The Key To Achieving Food Sufficiency – VP Bawumia

Ghana’s experience on the Agriculture front in the past six years demonstrates government's unwavering commitment to transform the sector and place it on a sound footing for accelerated development

The targeted interventions and programmes initiated by Government in the Agriculture sector since 2017 continue to yield significantly positive results and, with comprehensive reviews and upscaling, the objective of food security and resilience should be achieved in the near future, Vice President Bawumia has stated. The application of smart solutions…

The Presidency, Republic of Ghana
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Ghana: Vice President Bawumia Launches 100-Day Countdown to Accra 2023 African Games

Ghana won the bid in 2018 to host the African Games this year, but the Games was rescheduled to March 2024, following unforeseen circumstances, which derailed preparations

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, on Wednesday November 29, 2023, launched the 100-day countdown to the 13th African Games, Accra 2023. Ghana won the bid in 2018 to host the African Games this year, but the Games was rescheduled to March 2024, following unforeseen circumstances, which derailed preparations. With…

African Development Bank Group (AfDB)

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    • The Guardian's Chairman and Publisher, Lady Maiden Alex-Ibru (fourth left), presents a new book to African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina after delivering the newspaper's 40th anniversary lecture in Lagos. With them is the newspaper's Chairman of Editorial Board, Prof Wale Omole (second left)
    • African Development Bank Group President Dr Akinwumi Adesina
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Resource-rich Africa has no excuse to remain poor, says African Development Bank president

“Our governments must realise their responsibility to lift people out of poverty and into wealth as quickly as possible; It is doable”—Adesina

With $6.2 trillion worth of natural resources, 65 percent of the world’s uncultivated arable land, and a vibrant youth population, Africa has no excuse to be poor, African Development Bank Group President Dr Akinwumi Adesina (http://www.AfDB.org) said on Tuesday. He said the continent must look inward urgently to solve its many challenges…

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United Arab Emirates President Confers First Class Medal of Independence on Ambassador of South Africa

His Excellency Sheikh Shakhboot bin Nahyan Al Nahyan, Minister of State, presented the medal to HE Ambassador Kachalia, expressing his wishes for success in his future career

UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan awarded the First Class Medal of Independence to His Excellency Saad Kachalia on the occasion of the end of his tenure as Ambassador of the Republic of South Africa to the UAE, in appreciation of his efforts to develop and…

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

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    • The UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award's 2023 global laureate Abdullahi Mire in one of the libraries he founded at Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp
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Former refugee wins global Nansen award for championing education for displaced children

The awards are made possible through support from the Governments of Norway and Switzerland, IKEA Foundation, and the City and Canton of Geneva

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, announced today that Abdullahi Mire – a former refugee and journalist who has championed the right to education while putting 100,000 books in the hands of refugee children in Kenya – will be the UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award’s 2023 global laureate.  “Abdullahi Mire is living…

Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH)

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    • L-R: ABH Grand Finale Judge Ibukun Awosika, Founder of The Chair Centre Group; ABH 2023 Second Prize Winner Thomas Njeru, CEO and Co-Founder of Pula Advisors Limited; ABH Grand Finale Judge Joe Tsai, Chairman of Alibaba Group; ABH 2023 First Prize Winner Dr. Ikpeme Neto, CEO and Founder of Wellahealth Technologies; ABH 2023 Third Prize Winner Ayman Bazaraa, CEO and Co-Founder of Sprints; ABH Grand Finale Judge Dr. Diane Karusisi, CEO of Bank of Kigali
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Africa’s Business Heroes Prize Competition Announces 2023 Winners and Celebrates Five Years of Entrepreneurial Excellence

The top three winners were selected through multiple stages of interviews and evaluations from a staggering 27,267 applications spanning all 54 African nations

Entrepreneurs hailing from Nigeria, Kenya and Egypt were in the top three following the final pitching session in the Grand Finale; ABH (www.AfricaBusinessHeroes.org) grant recipients contribute to the creation of over 123,000 direct and indirect jobs through their entrepreneurial endeavors. The Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) Prize Competition, a philanthropic initiative sponsored…