Red Lands Roses’ farm in Kenya While Africa-focused private equity firm Adenia Partners generally avoids primary agriculture investments, in 2021, the firm backed a Kenyan farm producing a niche product that managing partner Alexis Caude equates to a luxury item. The enterprise, Red Lands Roses, specialises in growing spray roses, characterised by their multiple flowers … Read More “Why this investment firm backed a luxury farming product from Kenya” »
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Rosatom Presented Advanced Healthcare Technologies At the Future Technologies Forum, which took place on February 13-14, Alexey Likhachev, Rosatom Director General, presented the medical achievements of the nuclear industry: equipment for growing new blood vessels, bioimplants, new possibilities for radiopharmaceuticals and quantum computing. Rosatom stand demonstrated additive technologies, which are extremely effective in situations where … Read More “Rosatom Presented Advanced Healthcare Technologies” »
My Pivot Journal is a Ventures Africa weekly series documenting people’s career transitions from one industry to another, especially to tech. Kenechukwu Nwankwo had a promising career as an Architect. But he realized that he didn’t enjoy it as much as he thought he would. He wanted to try something different and more fulfilling. Here is Kenechukwu’s … Read More “My Pivot Journal: Kenechukwu Nwankwo’s journey from architecture to product management” »
South Africa’s inflation rate rose for the first time in three months in January on the back of higher fuel and food prices. Read: Inflation cools to 5.1% in December ADVERTISEMENT CONTINUE READING BELOW Consumer prices climbed 5.3% from a year earlier, compared with 5.1% in December, Pretoria-based Statistics South Africa said Wednesday in a … Read More “Inflation picks up in January” »
Following the expansion announcement at its 2023 annual summit, all eyes have been set on who could eventually join the BRICS collective. Susbeuqnlety, with its global cooperations growing by the day, that list has started to take shape. Amid recent discussions with Russia, could Cuba be set to join & accept BRICS currency in 2024? … Read More “Cuba to Join & Accept BRICS Currency in 2024?” »
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South Africa has grappled with electricity shortages for over a decade. In recent years, increased scheduled power outages, known locally as load shedding, have left some regions without power for up to 10 hours a day in severe instances. This situation has compelled many households and businesses to adopt solar power solutions for electricity generation. Between … Read More “Seeing opportunity in South Africa’s energy crisis” »
Persistent, weak South African economic growth and difficulty in sticking to spending targets may disrupt the return to lower inflation, showing the need for consistency in fiscal policy, the central bank’s chief economist said. Policymakers prefer to anchor inflation expectations at the 4.5% midpoint of the target range, a level it was last at in … Read More “Sarb says spending misses pose risk to lower inflation” »
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