Planting ideas Four home-grown innovations that will make life easier for Uganda’s school children have each been awarded UGX77 million in seed funding. Under the Uganda Innovation Fund Challenge, run by Unicef… Read more
Close the gap Zanzibar is rolling out digital technology to improve its revenue collection. The Citizen reports that tax authorities in the semi-autonomous archipelago are expecting a 20% increase in tax revenue by… Read more
Lights on Nigeria has officially switched on its Solar Power Naija programme, which was announced last year as a measure to alleviate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Nigeria’s Guardian,… Read more
Green dream Plans to electrify East Africa’s millions of motorbike taxis are revving up with a US$3.5 million injection from a US venture capital fund, said to be its single-biggest investment in a sub-Saharan… Read more
Speed dial More than 3 000 women leaders of farming co-operatives in Rwanda are being furnished with smartphones so they are more easily able to collect agriculture data and share it with… Read more
