Safaricom has posted a healthy performance in its H1FY17 results, with a 111.6 per cent year-on-year increase in free cash flow
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Africa's PPPs "require greater stakeholder cohesion"
The use of public private partnership (PPP) contracts are becoming more prevalent on the continent, but the mechanism requires careful handling by all partners to deliver scalable benefits across the value chain, delegates attending a recent African PPP event in London heard
BACB seals "ground-breaking" transaction in Côte d'Ivoire
British Arab Commercial Bank (BACB) has concluded a pre-export finance facility deal worth up to €25mn (US$27mn) with prominent Ivory Coast cocoa exporter Société Amer et Frères (SAF)
If youth is our future, then we are already behind schedule, says AfDB President
A high-level conference organised by the African Development Bank at its headquarters in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire discussed a number of issues concerning the future of African youth
UAE Water Aid Foundation and Carbon Ambassadors support Nairobi clean drinking water project

HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, chairman of the Board of Trustees of Suqia. (Image source: Orient Planet)
The UAE Water Aid Foundation (Suqia), under the umbrella of Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, has sponsored an innovative project by a team from the Carbon Ambassadors Programme