Commonwealth News

Australia’s booming tech scene is raising profile of local start-ups among global investors. Canva today is valued at $15 billion and is part of a new wave of tech companies with global ambitions. Read the original article here:...

African Development Bank approves 8 proposals through the Youth Entrepreneurship and Innovation Multi-Donor Trust Fund that will receive funding of more than $7.3 million to operationalise their activities, creating several new enterprises and about 20,000 jobs for...

Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank, welcomes the diversity of sector activities in the Asia-Africa partnerships. In an interview, he said that Asian countries are diversifying their investments in Africa from traditional sectors such as...

Kenya and Tanzania signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to mark the beginning of great bilateral relations. The two also agreed to unlock non-tariff barriers which have been affecting trade between them. Read the original article here:...

Plentywaka announces acquisition deal with Stabus after $1.2m USD seed round from Canada, Nigeria and few others. Ghana’s leading mobility startup will be now called as Plentywaka Ghana. It is a step further to Toronto’s Plentywaka ambition of building the largest...

Barbados receives its final batch of 33,600 coronavirus AstraZeneca vaccines from the COVAX facility, at the Grantley Adams International Airport. PM Mia Amor Mottley said vaccines were an integral step in the battle against COVID-19 but wearing masks, maintaining...