Togbe Afede XIV Becomes Member of World Trade Centre Board

Delegates from around the world have elected World Trade Centre Accra (WTC-Accra) Chairman Togbe Afede XIV to their international board, as one of the 23-member board. With a voter turnout of 70% of the 331-member cities organization: “The election results affirm that Accra is a world-class city in the eyes of international business community who value our vision on how we can grow local business through international trade,”...

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Prez Inaugurates First Private Electricity Substation

President John Dramani Mahama has inaugurated the first private sector-owned substation in electricity supply to serve industries operating in the Tema Free Zones enclave.The Enclave Power Company (EPC), which will produce 165 megawatts of power, is the largest substation in Ghana, in terms of capacity, and is the first of its size to be constructed and funded entirely from private sources. Construction works on the project started in September...

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Ivory trade: Kenya Wildlife Authorities in China

A six-member delegation of senior Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) officials, led by Minister Ole Tipis and the organization’s Director, General William Kiprono, is presently in China to engage with the Chinese government to enlist their support for reducing and eventually eliminating China’s hunger for ivory. The KWS spokesperson, Paul Udoto, who met this correspondent last weekend and explained this important mission in greater details,...

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Giant land tortoise will lead Seychelles Carnaval International de Victoria

In 1972 a giant land tortoise paraded the streets of Victoria as part of the first carnival Seychelles ever organized. It has now been confirmed that in this 2015 edition of the Carnaval International de Victoria that it will be officially opened on Friday, April 24, again with a giant land tortoise that will lead the carnival parade in the streets of Victoria. It is Minister Alain St.Ange who had been liaising with the Seychelles Car Hire Association (SCHOA) and said that he congratulated Mr. Vincent Padayachy and his association for...

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Seychelles Carnival: a platform to showcase cultures without shame & fear

The Carnaval International de Victoria is a platform for the world to be able to showcase their cultures without shame and fear. These words were echoed by the Minister for Tourism and Culture Alain St Ange during the carnival’s press conference a day prior to the official launch of the fifth Carnaval International de Victoria. Savoy Resort and Spa at Beau Vallon hosted the VIPs and international and local media representatives to the event at its Gecko Bar facing the ocean. With the backdrop of the sunset, the press conference started...

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Hunt begins for 2015 Miss Tourism Uganda

Culture diversity will feature prominently in this year’s Miss Tourism 2015 whose preparations started in Karamoja and West Nile recently. Karamoja and West Nile tourism clusters are the latest additions to the 9 regional clusters (Buganda, Busoga, Bunyoro, Tooro, Northern, Teso, Ankole, Eastern/Bugisu, and Kigezi) that competed for the prestigious title last year. Young women between 18 and 27 who understand their respective cultural values...

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MTN Rwanda, Safaricom to interlink mobile money services

MTN Rwanda subscribers will soon be able to make cross-border mobile money transactions, thanks to a deal MTN Group signed with Vodafone Group. The deal will see MTN users in Rwanda transfer cash to Kenya or Tanzania through Safaricom and Tanzania’s Vodacom M-Pesa platform “within weeks,” according to Norman Munyampundu, the head of mobile money at MTN Rwanda. UK-based Vodafone owns controlling stakes in Kenya’s Safaricom and Vodacom. Munyampundu...

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PSF, Ethiopian chamber of commerce sign partnership deal

The Private Sector Federation (PSF) has signed a partnership agreement with the Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce to promote trade and economic relations between Rwanda and Ethiopia.  Geoffrey Kamanzi, the head of trade facilitation and negotiations at PSF, said the key areas of co-operation will include technology transfer and technical assistance, capacity building to strengthen bilateral and business relations between the two...

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MTN pays Rwf8.25m tuition for Bugesera school dropouts

More disadvantaged children in Bugesera District will be able to access quality education, thanks to a donation of Rwf8.25 million from MTN Rwanda to support students who had dropped out of school due to lack of fees. The grant, which was received by Bugesera District mayor Louis Rwagaju at the district head offices on Friday, will benefit 20 students for a period of three years. “I wish to thank MTN Rwanda for supporting initiatives that...

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Airtel Ghana Upgrades Product Offering

Airtel Ghana has raised the bar in the voice and data space in Ghana’s telecommunication industry with the upgrade of the Airtel “Too Much” product offering. With as little as GHc1, Airtel customers can get a package with 200 minutes for Airtel to Airtel calls, 7 minutes for Airtel to other network calls, 100 SMS and 50 megabyte of data for browsing. The packages range from daily, weekly to monthly depending on the amount of usage and the customer’s...

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World Bank Projects $33bn Remittances to Africa

Growth of remittances to the Sub-Saharan Africa region is projected to slow to 0.9 percent in 2015, amounting to $33 billion, according World Bank’s latest Migration and Development Brief. It said Nigeria alone accounts for around two-thirds of total remittance inflows to the region, but its remittances are estimated to have remained flat in 2014, at roughly $21 billion. The regional growth in remittances in 2014 largely reflected strong...

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Philips Hue, Apple Watch Integration Deliver Personalized Lighting Experiences

Royal Philips, the global leader in lighting, has announced that its ‘Philips Hue’ can now be controlled through Apple Watch. Easy and intuitive to use, Philips Hue can now be instantly accessed and controlled by a device you wear all day every day making certain that light personal to you is always at hand. “We know that light is at the heart of the digital home,” said Eric Rondolat, chief executive officer at Philips Lighting. “With...

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