Every June 7th, the African Union (AU) marks the African Border Day: a day set aside to celebrate and highlight the work of the African Union Border Programme (AUBP) in uniting and integrating Africa. At this time, the importance and socioeconomic impact of borders on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), cannot be overemphasized. Every June […]
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Alitheia Capital, a pioneering impact investing firm based in Lagos, Nigeria, has announced that it has joined the United Nations Global Compact — a voluntary leadership network for the development, implementation, and disclosure of responsible business practices. With this announcement, Alitheia Capital formally joins thousands of leading companies globally that are committed to creating a
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You may have heard of the jollof wars – which, for the unaware, is a passionate debate amongst West African countries as to which country’s jollof rice recipe is the best. Fundamental to the tastiness of jollof rice – and, indeed, many other foods consumed across the region – is tomatoes. Nigeria, West Africa’s largest
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Complete Farmer, an end-to-end digital, agricultural marketplace that connects African farmers and global industries to competitive markets, resources, data, and each other on a single platform, raises $10.4 million in a Pre-Series A funding round of equity and debt. The equity portion of the round was co-led by the Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund (ARAF) and
