Bankers from sub-Saharan Africa and China who attended the Huawei sub-Saharan Africa Financial Services Industry Online Summit 2020 agree that digitisation of the sector will give it resilience against the current COVID-19 pandemic and enable sustained growth in the post COVID era
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MainOne to deliver connectivity services into Burkina Faso

The aim is to provide fibre optic transmission infrastructure between Ouagadougou and Dakola. (Image source: Daniel Dino-Slofer/Pixabay)
MainOne, West Africa’s connectivity and data centre solution provider, has been chosen by the State of Burkina Faso, backed by the World Bank, to provide bulk connectivity services to a consortium of operators through the PAV-Burkina Cooperative for the next three years
Pipedrive teams up with Ambitious Africa initiative to develop entrepreneurship
Sales CRM Pipedrive has partnered with the project Ambitious Africa, which aims to empower collaborative projects in the fields of education, entrepreneurship and entertainment between Africa and the Nordics
African leaders endorse plan to build climate resilience into recovery from COVID-19

It is time to devote more resources to Africa to expand its fiscal space to secure lives during the COVID-19 pandemic, said AfDB president. (Image source: World Bank Photo Collection/Flickr)
Around 54 leaders from the African Adaptation Initiative, championed by President Ali Bongo Ondimba of Gabon, have endorsed the policy recommendations outlined in the brief “Integrated Responses to Building Climate and Pandemic Resilience in Africa”
Schneider Electric and AVEVA extend partnership to deliver hyperscale data centre solution
Schneider Electric and AVEVA have announced expanded partnership to deliver innovative solutions for the data centre market