Growth & Progress

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Twitter announced plans to hire 11 people and open an office in Ghana, the company’s first in Africa. The social media giant joins Facebook and other tech companies moving into Africa, where founder Jack Dorsey…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Agrowing trend in Nairobi, Kenya, sees more people switching to cycling since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, despite a critical lack of bike paths. It’s a promising sign in the capital city where air…

REUTERS Nzambi Matee hurls a brick against a footpath constructed from bricks made of recycled plastic that her factory produces in the Kenyan capital. It makes a loud bang, but it does not crack. “Our product is almost five to…

VOICE OF AMERICA Africa has launched the world’s largest trade bloc after the World Trade Organization. Every African nation except Eritrea has signed on to the African Continental Free Trade Area, and countries are developing safety…

WORLD BANK Nestled in the dense rainforest of the Kafa Biosphere Reserve in southwest Ethiopia are thousands of genetic variants of coffee, an important seed bank of wild arabica that faces extinction. Preserving Ethiopia’s prized…

ADF Staff In 2020, John Oroko of Kenya witnessed the devastation wrought by desert locusts. It was a call to action. His agricultural company, Selina Wamucii, launched a mobile app called Kuzi that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to…