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Innovating Finance for Climate Change as Policymakers Gather for the United States - Africa Leaders Summit 2022

Sponsored by Bank of America and Africa Finance Corporation in collaboration with Africa.com

Africa.com, Bank of America and Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) are convening a high-level curated event to discuss innovating finance for climate change in Washington D.C. on December 15, during the U.S.- Africa Leaders Summit. The event will bring together a focus group of senior leaders to contribute to framing financial…

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Faculty of Harvard University and Africa.com feature Online Course for Africans in food systems businesses

The online course will equip entrepreneurs across emerging economies with the skills they need to operate successful food systems businesses

Africa.com (www.Africa.com), the women-led digital media organisation, is featuring an online course in conjunction with HarvardX and online course provider edX. The course Food Systems Live! Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies (http://bit.ly/3EXNax3) is slated to begin on January 23, 2023, and the “live” instruction will take place online every week for…

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Thousands Tune in Virtually to Hear Bill Gates on Innovating for Food Security & Climate Change in Africa

Registrants from 131 countries included 51 African countries and 80 countries in the rest of the world

The hybrid event was streamed live from University of Nairobi and hosted online by Africa.com (www.Africa.com). More than 15,000 people registered to join the virtual audience, the largest in Africa.com's history for a single virtual event. Registrants from 131 countries included 51 African countries and 80 countries in the rest of…

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Africa.com to feature Bill Gates on Innovating for Food Security and Climate Change in Africa

Hybrid Event to Live-Stream from University of Nairobi

Africa.com, announced that on November 17th, from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM EAT (Nairobi), it will host Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, on its virtual platform in partnership with the University of Nairobi.  The hybrid event will include a live audience of 500 students from…

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AFRICA.COM Hybrid Event with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Melinda French Gates

A discussion on equity and innovation for Africa’s recovery

In a time when responding to health challenges is of the highest importance, AFRICA.COM is hosting a hybrid event discussing ways to promote health, science and technological innovation in Africa, while also highlighting how innovation can remove barriers facing African women and girls. The discussion features Melinda French Gates, Co-Chair…

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My Dinner with Bill Gates (By Teresa Clarke)

Africa.com's CEO writes about how she felt after this special invitation

By Teresa Clarke, Africa.com Chair & Executive Editor  I was invited to dine with Bill Gates last week during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.  The terms of the invitation, which was extended to six others besides myself, were that the discussion would be off-the-record.  Therefore, I can’t write about…

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AFRICA.COM: Live from the World Economic Forum in Davos

One of the critical issues that Africa must address is how the continent tackles climate change, and the role that the public and private sector will play in addressing this pressing issue

This year, Africa Day coincides with the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland.  African leaders, together with world leaders, are gathering to discuss critical issues of importance to Africa, and the world. One of the critical issues that Africa must address is how the continent tackles…

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Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila to Provide Mentoring Advice

Free for any woman in Africa, working in public service, in the first five years of her career

Namibian Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila will lead off the first pan-African virtual training program for women early in their government careers on Thursday, April 28th.  The training session is free to any woman in the first five years of her government career in any of the fifty-four countries in Africa,…

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Unspoken Rules for Women Climbing the Public Service Ladder in Africa

Free Training Workshop for Female Civil Servants

Africa.com (www.Africa.com) in partnership with The Coca-Cola Company launched the Women Heads of State Initiative (https://bit.ly/3Ok8jUP) last month, and as part of the initiative they are delivering unprecedented, free, open-enrollment, virtual training for women, early in their careers as government civil servants in any of Africa’s 54 countries. “Teresa Clarke, Chair…

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Introducing the 22 African Women Who Have Served as Head of State

Africa.com defines Women Heads of State as women who have served as president or prime minister, including Heads of State and Heads of Government

The role that women should play in shaping Africa’s present and future was a key theme from speakers of the Women Heads of State Initiative, co-convened by Africa.com and Coca-Cola Africa. The event introduced the world to the 22 women who have served as president or prime minister of an African…