Accenture Customer Credit Solutions has been created by Accenture to help businesses digitize credit services in Africa. Accenture has been providing services to more than 40 industries in 120 countries and is now hoping to create a more simple and faster credit provision process for African customers. Edcon Holding Limited is Accenture Customer Credit Solutions' very first client. Read More »

Candy-making giant the Hershey Company recently partnered with cocoa suppliers Blommer Chocolate and Olam Cocoa to build a much-needed health center in Teapleau, Cote d'Ivoire. Read More »

African capital markets experienced some hard times in 2015, according to PwC "2015 Africa Capital Markets Watch" released Monday. The report includes studies of equity and debt capital market transactions that took place between 2011 and 2015 on exchanges across Africa; it also looks at transactions completed by African corporations using international exchanges. Read More »

Looking to develop accelerated growth in high-potential and emerging markets, telecom group Orange sought legal advice from Dechert LLP on purchasing all shares of Airtel's subsidiaries in Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso recently. Read More »

Zoetic Global entered into a 20-year power purchase agreement with ECG to provide 100 megawatts of additive power generation at the nation's Akosombo Dam on Lake Volta. Zoetic Global deploys life-sustaining technology solutions in energy, water and food security worldwide. Its new project with ECG involves the deployment of several modular hydrokinetic turbines in Akosombo Dam. Read More »

The first half of 2016 will see the launch of a major aquaponics program jointly overseen by Ghana's Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development (MOFAD) and U.S.-based Zoetic Global. Read More »

In Nigeria, they will build Four Points by Sheraton Abuja and Residences and the Westin Abuja and Residences; in Kenya, they will build Four Points by Sheraton Nairobi Airport; in Senegal, they will build Aloft Dakar; in Tanzania, they will build Element Oyster Bay Dar es Salaam; in Mali, they will build Sheraton Bamako; and in Egypt, W Sharm El Sheikh and W Sharm El Sheikh.  Read More »

The Hershey Co. announced a new Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to Action to train 7,500 farmers in Ghana on improved agronomic practices, empowering them to supply local commercial markets with safe and high-quality peanuts to produce Vivi, a vitamin and mineral-fortified nutritional supplement distributed to school children in Ghana. Read More »