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COVID-19 threatens to ruin a record year for Africa’s hotel developers

Tourism is such an important industry in Africa, because of the direct and indirect jobs that it creates and sustains, as well as its strong foreign currency earnings June 17, 2020/Bench Events African hotel development had returned to growth at the start of 2020, with more than 78,000 rooms in […]

SEC Announces Speakers for June 18 Small Business Forum: “Access to Capital: More Critical Now than Ever”

June 16, 2020/US SEC The Securities and Exchange Commission today released the program with agenda and speakers for the June 18, 2020, virtual Small Business Forum.  The event will begin at 12 p.m. ET and, as always, will be free and open to the public.  The full program, with the complete agenda […]

AUDA-NEPAD, Ecobank Announce the Pillars of the AUDA-NEPAD “100,000 MSMEs by 2021” programme for Africa’s Micro Small and Medium Enterprises

The AUDA-NEPAD programme will pool African resources, capabilities, financing, market access and technology, to help achieve a continental response to MSMEs June 11, 2020/Ecobank AUDA-NEPAD (the African Union Development Agency) (https://www.NEPAD.org/) and Ecobank Group (http://www.Ecobank.com/) are committing resources to Africa’s Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). The second virtual workshop […]