Cameron Beveridge, Regional Director for Southern Africa at SAP JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 5th July 2022 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- Business leaders are engaged in a delicate balancing act as radical workforce changes, new customer demands, external pressures and the impact of the pandemic collide to create a multitude of new challenges and opportunities. Cameron Beveridge, Regional Director […]
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Fòs Feminista Celebrates Sierra Leone’s Decriminalization of Abortion
As the world watches the U.S. backslide, Fòs Feminista applauds feminist movements that continue to decriminalize abortion and advance gender and reproductive justice. Participants at the 10th African Conference on Sexual and Health and Rights in Sierra Leone in June don scarves made by Fòs Feminista partners in Nigeria representing the pan-African movement for abortion […]
TPAY MOBILE’s Founder and CEO Sahar Salama hands over Group CEO responsibilities to become Group Chairwoman
ex-CEO of Mollie, Gaston Aussems, named successor DUBAI, UAE, 4 July 2022 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- TPAY MOBILE, the leader in mobile payments in the Middle East, Africa, and Turkey (META), today announces it has appointed Gaston Aussems, previously CEO of Mollie, as Group CEO, effective 4th July 2022. Founder and current CEO, Sahar Salama, will move into […]
Interview with Rupert McCammon on What to Expect at AFSIC 2022
Rupert McCammon, the Managing Director of AFSIC is committed to Driving Investment Into the African Continent Across all Industries LONDON, England, 1 July 2022, /African Media Agency/- AFSIC, now in its 9th year, is believed to be the largest African investment event taking place annually outside Africa and has become one of the most important conduits […]
New UN financing initiative goes live to power climate action
NEW YORK, USA, 01st July 2022-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- A new UN-led financing tool to strengthen weather and climate forecasting, improve life-saving early warning systems, safeguard jobs, and underpin climate adaptation for long-term resilience, officially opened for business on Thursday. The Systematic Observations Financing Facility (SOFF) is a key building block for a new initiative spearheaded by UN Secretary-General General […]
Kasi Insight is disrupting the market research industry with the launch of dataset
NAIROBI, Kenya, 30th June 2022 -/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Kasi Insight is Africa’s leading decision intelligence company empowering business leaders and entrepreneurs to make crucial decisions with confidence. The company conducts over 10,000 monthly interviews across 20 countries in Africa and aggregate all consumer data into a data portal called Kasi Hub. Today, Kasi is pleased […]
Africa Publishing Innovation Fund and DAISY Consortium Giving Free Expert Training in Production of Accessible Books for Visually Impaired Readers
GENEVA, Switzerland,29 June, 2022,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The Africa Publishing Innovation Fund (APIF), a grant-giving program co-led by philanthropic organization Dubai Cares and the International Publishers Association (IPA), and the DAISY Consortium, a world authority on publishing for people with visual impairments and other print disabilities, are offering African publishers free expert training on the production of accessible works. Under […]
FTT DAO raises $7 million, donated by FTX token fans
FTX Token Fans Start FTT DAO HONG KONG SAR, 29 June 2022 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- FTT DAO, a community-led ecosystem DAO, has received 250,000 $FTT, worth approximately $7 million USD, in community donations to help kick start its activities. A number of community contributors participated in the donation to help grow FTT DAO. Through this donation, which […]
Rise to the challenge: building intelligent enterprises in West Africa
by Titilayo Adewumi, Regional Sales Director for West Africa at SAP LAGOS, Nigeria, 28th June 2022 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- The past few years have been a wake-up call to businesses to speed up their digital transformation efforts and more quickly adopt the technologies needed to deal with disruption. Business leaders today are digitising with haste, seeking […]
Put women’s rights ‘front and centre’ of climate policies: Bachelet
NEW YORK, USA, 28 June 2022-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Although climate change threatens everyone, women and girls often suffer its harshest and most violent consequences, UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Monday. “While I welcome the international attention on climate change’s impact on women and girls over the last decade, we must urgently also […]
Crypto Derivatives Leader Bybit Tackles Bear Market by Settling Options in USDC
VICTORIA, Seychelles, 27 June 2022 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- Bybit, a cryptocurrency exchange with one of the largest BTC futures open interest, is settling its options trading market in one of the world’s most trusted stablecoins: USDC. Unlike Bitcoin-settled contracts, Bybit’s use of USDC allows for stable prices for the duration of each contract. Users of Bybit’s European-style, […]
Global hunger crisis pushing one child per minute, into severe malnutrition
NEW YORK, USA, 24 June 2022-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Because of the global hunger crisis, every single minute, one child is pushed into life-threatening, severe malnutrition. That’s the alarming message on Thursday from UN Children’s Fund UNICEF, which issued the alert for 15 countries in crisis where the situation is worsening. The UN agency warning comes as […]
March to Kigali Movement with Over 300 Supporters Calls on Leaders to Eliminate Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) in Africa
Every two minutes, an African child dies from malaria. The continent accounts for over 90% of global malaria deaths and over 40 per cent of the global burden of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). The Kigali Summit is a historic opportunity for world leaders to reaffirm commitments to end malaria and NTDs. KIGALI, Rwanda,23 June 2022,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The March […]