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Over the last decade, stakeholders in Africa’s agricultural sector have laid the foundations for a renaissance in agriculture across the...

For most youth-owned businesses in the Commonwealth Southern African community, access to finance, a united voice to seek support...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Nairobi, Kenya, on August 22 to meet with President Kenyatta to discuss regional...

The Global Learning XPRIZE challenges teams from around the world to develop open source and scalable software that will enable children...

Africa’s startups are seizing an opportunity they say Google and Apple Inc. have missed -- making apps for non-smartphones. In a region...

This August’s sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Nairobi, Kenya will facilitate high-level discussions...

Getting aid to impoverished Africans is hard enough, what with blockades of bureaucracy and red tape. But in many African countries, bad...

The Chair of the Commonwealth Observer Group, HE Dr Jakaya Kikwete, former President of the United Republic of Tanzania says that the...

By reducing the time and costs of trading, integrated transit mechanisms are important for boosting trade and enhancing competitiveness...

Conspiracy theorists like to think that prize long-and shortlists are compiled with an eye to various external factors: are there enough...

Within the first month of the Brexit referendum vote, the early UK-after-Brexit discussions got underway with a Ramphal Institute...

Universities are in a prime position to promote sustainable development, writes Nutifafa Geh, 30, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Ho in...

Over the past decade, China with its growing new consumer class has represented an exciting and vast new marketing opportunity for luxury...

In Africa, local taxi companies and startups have been working hard to compete with Uber but the ride hailing company has managed to...

MORE MONEY MORE PROBLEMS Over the course of the last decade, Africa has witnessed immense economic growth with peak commodity prices and...

Employers throw out degrees Companies like Ernst & Young, PWC, and Penguin have already made bold steps in that direction, doing away...

We have a bias towards stories of African innovation in the sense of big ideas, creative vision, entrepreneurship and homegrown, globally...

There’s too much money in Nairobi. That’s one way to explain why some venture capitalists are setting their sights elsewhere. Largely...

Distributed power—where electricity is generated locally, instead of delivered via complex grid infrastructure—makes lots of sense for...

Ahead of Venezuela’s pivotal parliamentary elections on Dec. 6, journalists and civil groups deployed digital tools developed in Africa...