Oct 8, 2021 | Commonwealth News
African Development Bank (AfDB) to support trade valued at $7 billion over the next five years in a bid to spur the growth of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) that went into effect on Jan. 1. AfDB will be targeting small and medium-sized companies,...
Oct 7, 2021 | Commonwealth News
Moderna plans to spend about $500 million to build a state-of-the-art mRNA facility in Africa. At present, only about 4.5% of Africans had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to the continent’s top public health official. The proposed site is...
Oct 7, 2021 | Commonwealth News
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Edward mark the 2022 Commonwealth Games baton relay, a sporting event held every four years with athletes from across the Commonwealth. The baton will travel for about 294 days with the Queen’s message to the Commonwealth. The event...
Oct 6, 2021 | Commonwealth News
The South Pacific Business Development (SPBD Tonga) Microfinance empowers its members to start, grow and maintain micro-businesses with its loan program – White Goods Financing (WGF) in partnership with Durga Lakshmi Manufacturing Ltd (DLM), one of the largest...
Oct 6, 2021 | Commonwealth News
At a virtual Service Excellence Conference, Nigeria’s High Commissioner, Dr Maureen Tamuno says that Nigeria is exploring opportunities for trade and business with Jamaica. The High Commissioner further added that formalising a new air-service agreement would be...
Oct 6, 2021 | Commonwealth News
Bahamas’ new economic affairs minister, Michael Halkitis, wants to boost the financial services industry at the highest priority and “progressively harness profitable niches”. Halkitis intends to diversify investments in technology, renewable energy,...
Oct 6, 2021 | Commonwealth News
Crypto asset platform CoinSwitch Kuber raises more than $260 million in Series C funding round from existing and new investors including Coinbase Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, valuing it at $1.9 billion. The company plans to design ways of simplifying investments...
Oct 6, 2021 | Commonwealth News
Ghana to host the first-ever African Paralympic Games in 2023, the President of National Paralympic Committee of Ghana (NPC-Ghana) Samson Deen revealed this week. About 50 African countries are expected to participate in the continental showcase. NPC clarified that...
Oct 6, 2021 | Commonwealth News
The Nairobi-based, Pan-African housing financier Shelter Afrique enters a deal with Cameroon to set up a prefab factory to provide low-cost construction materials. The lender has approved establishing the $15 million Industrial Housing Corporation (IHC) close to the...
Oct 5, 2021 | Commonwealth News
Malta’s first space research experiment lands back on earth and is expected to be back in the hands of scientists soon. The project team sent samples to the International Space Station (ISS) of micro-organisms that cause diabetic ulcers in a bid to analyse how the...
