Innovative emergency aid products and solutions from Sub-Saharan Africa will be showcased at AidEx, a global humanitarian aid event in Brussels.

Innovative emergency aid products and solutions from Sub-Saharan Africa will be showcased at AidEx, a global humanitarian aid event scheduled for 19-20 October 2011, in Brussels

President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote. (Image source: World Economic Forum/Flickr)

Dangote Group president Aliko Dangote has been honoured with the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for West Africa

AfDB president Donald Kaberuka and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus at the conference in Tunisia. (Image source: AfDB)

The African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Human Development Department and Yunus Social Business recently organised a conference in Tunisia to launch a social business awareness initiative in an attempt to reduce unemployment in the country

Visitors and industry experts at the Next Generation Mining Africa Summit 2012. (Image source: Next Generation Mining Africa Summit)

The Next Generation Mining Africa Summit, organised by GDS International in South Africa, sought to offer solutions to problems being faced by the mining sector in the continent