Category: Women
Financial Institution Empowers Women-Led Businesses
By Irene Gaitirira Published October 3, 2022 Ecobank has launched a programme called Ellevate to support women-led and women focused businesses in Kenya. Though women own about one-third of all registered Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), they lack access to high quality, demand-driven financial services; it is estimated that women-owned SMEs face a US$42 billion…
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Famous Kenyan Sisters Ready Tell All in Reality TV Show
By Jennifer Ochieng Published June 19, 2022 The Kyallo Sisters–Betty, Mercy and Gloria–have made headlines and been subjects of trending topics on Twitter and other social media platforms. Now, for the first time ever, they are opening up all aspects of their lives in their new reality series titled Kyallo Kuture that is from June…
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Top African Women Innovators and Entrepreneurs Awarded
By Iminza Keboge Published December 26, 2021 Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) has announced the winners of its AWIEF Awards for 2021. Out of 24 women founders and entrepreneurs from Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe selected as top finalists, 8 winners have been announced at…
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Give Food Producers Voice In Global Climate Fora
By Abdi Ali Published December 1, 2021 Though small-scale farmers produce one-third of global food and are particularly vulnerable to natural disasters and erratic weather, they are too often excluded from global forums that impact their lives. Satu Santala, who joins the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) on December 1, 2021 as Associate…
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Time to Invest in Africa’s Agriculture
By Beth Dunford Published October 17, 2021 Though more than six out of every 10 people in Sub-Saharan Africa work in the continent’s agriculture sector, the pace of the continent’s agricultural growth is not keeping up with Africa’s population growth and around 246 million Africans go to bed hungry every night. On this World Food…
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Lack of Digital Infrastructure Locks Millions of People in Poverty
By Abdi Ali Published June 23, 2021 Though mobile remittances increased by 65 per cent in 2020, rising to US$12.7 billion, millions of rural people struggle to access the mobile banking services which could help lift them out of poverty. Gilbert F Houngbo, President of UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), has appealed to…
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