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Branding

Brand Finance report: South Africa’s soft power credentials on the rise

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Cannes Lions

#Cannes2025: 3 top creatives from continent named jury presidents

Danette Breitenbach 17 Jan 2025

Trace Awards 2025 to showcase Africa's musical diversity

Music

Trace Awards 2025 to showcase Africa's musical diversity

3 Jan 2025

ILE PHOTO: Cocoa pods are pictured at a farm in Sinfra, Ivory Coast April 29, 2023. REUTERS/Luc Gnago/File Photo

Agriculture

Drought, heat pose a double threat to Ivory Coast cocoa farmers

Loucoumane Coulibaly 17 Dec 2024

Cocoa firms invest millions in Ghana to prevent further losses

Agro-processing

Cocoa firms invest millions in Ghana to prevent further losses

Joe Bavier, Maytaal Angel and Maxwell Akalaare Adombila 27 Nov 2024

A bird flies over a family of elephants walking in the Amboseli National Park, southeast of Kenya's capital Nairobi, 25 April 2016. Reuters/Thomas Mukoya/File Photo

Environment & Natural Resources

Researchers document huge drop in African elephants in a half century

Will Dunham 12 Nov 2024

Ghana expects recovery in cocoa production for 2024/25 season

Agro-processing

Ghana expects recovery in cocoa production for 2024/25 season

Maxwell Akalaare Adombila 7 Nov 2024

Flags indicate how many trees each donor country has planted. Jeremy Allouche,

Climate Change

Africa’s Great Green Wall will only combat desertification and poverty by harnessing local solutions

Jeremy Allouche and Élie Pédarros 18 Oct 2024

Pernod-Ricard's Nthabi Motsoeneng to chair Warc Awards for Middle East & Africa 2025 jury

Marketing

Pernod-Ricard's Nthabi Motsoeneng to chair Warc Awards for Middle East & Africa 2025 jury

17 Oct 2024

End of an era for Drip Footwear: footwear retailer enters liquidation, laying off employees

Retailers

End of an era for Drip Footwear: footwear retailer enters liquidation, laying off employees

9 Oct 2024

Source: Reuters

Agriculture

Cameroon farmers turn to vigilantes and amulets to stop cocoa theft

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 2 Oct 2024

Ivory seized in the United States. Photo Credit: Gavin Shire / US Fish and Wildlife Service on Flickr ()

Environment & Natural Resources

Using carbon dating to stop elephant and rhino poaching

Cole Potgieter 25 Sep 2024

PayRetailers expands further into Africa

Banking & Finance

PayRetailers expands further into Africa

18 Sep 2024

Source: Reuters.

Banking

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon to visit Africa in growth push

David Lewis, Nupur Anand, Duncan Miriri 18 Sep 2024

Palestinian AFP photojournalist Mahmud Hams was awarded the Visa d’Or News prize for his coverage of the conflict in Gaza (Image supplied)

Media

Palestinian photojournalist Mahmud Hams awarded Visa d'Or for powerful Gaza war coverage

9 Sep 2024

Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Simon Stiell speaks at the African Ministerial Conference on Environment (AMCEN), in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, 5 September 2024. Reuters/Luc Gnago

Climate Change

Climate change costs Africa up to 5% of GDP, UN climate head says

Duncan Miriri 5 Sep 2024

Ghana to raise cocoa farmgate price by nearly 45%

Agro-processing

Ghana to raise cocoa farmgate price by nearly 45%

3 Sep 2024

Republic of Rwanda's Minister of Environment Jeanne d'Arc Mujawamariya, CEO and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (UN SRSG) for Sustainable Energy for All Damilola Ogunbiyi, Danish Minister for Development Cooperation and Global Climate Policy Dan Joergensen and Maldives Minister?of Climate Change, Environment and Energy, Thoriq Ibrahim attend the session of discussion on the Global Cooling Pledge aimed at reducing emissions and exploring sustainable cooling solutions, during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), in Dubai, UAE, 5 December 2023. Reuters/Thaier Al-Sudani/File Photo

Climate Change

African governments looking to COP summit for higher climate financing share

Duncan Miriri 27 Aug 2024

ESPN Africa set for epic European football season ahead

TV

ESPN Africa set for epic European football season ahead

Issued by The Walt Disney Company Africa 14 Aug 2024

Learning more about elephants for World Elephant Day 12 August 2024

Environment & Natural Resources

Learning more about elephants for World Elephant Day 12 August 2024

Issued by Our Salad Mix 13 Aug 2024

Ivorian farmers boost rice yields with new crop

Agro-processing

Ivorian farmers boost rice yields with new crop

Loucoumane Coulibaly 2 Aug 2024

Source: © LinkedIn Spar South Africa with Delivery Ka Speed SA as a last-mile delivery partner

Informal Retailing

Township delivery services drive socio-economic advantages

16 Jul 2024

Cocoa farmers optimistic as soil moisture aids growth in Ivory Coast

Agro-processing

Cocoa farmers optimistic as soil moisture aids growth in Ivory Coast

Loucoumane Coulibaly 9 Jul 2024

No respite for coffee lovers as higher global prices stoke local inflation

Agro-processing

No respite for coffee lovers as higher global prices stoke local inflation

Paul Makube 20 Jun 2024

Ivory Coast moves to cut out middlemen in cocoa sector reform

Agro-processing

Ivory Coast moves to cut out middlemen in cocoa sector reform

Ange Aboa 18 Jun 2024

A girl carries a jerrycan filled with water at a Tolou Keur garden in the Walalde department of Podor, in the Great Green Wall of the Sahara and the Sahel area, Senegal, 11 July 2021. Reuters/Zohra Bensemra/File Photo

Climate Change

Will Africa's Great Green Wall hit 2030 goal?

Simon Jessop and Alessandra Prentice 13 Jun 2024

Ghana delays cocoa shipments, impacting global chocolate industry

Agriculture

Ghana delays cocoa shipments, impacting global chocolate industry

Maytaal Angel and Maxwell Akalaare Adombila 12 Jun 2024

Ivory tusks are displayed after the official start of the destruction of confiscated ivory in Hong Kong, 15 May 2014. Reuters/Tyrone Siu/File Photo

Environment & Natural Resources

Southern African states make fresh pitch to trade $1bn ivory stockpile

Nyasha Chingono 30 May 2024

Ivory Coast cracks down on fraudulent cocoa certifications

Agro-processing

Ivory Coast cracks down on fraudulent cocoa certifications

Ange Aboa 28 May 2024

Sumsub's Non-Doc Identity Verification extends global coverage, transforming African market

Services

Sumsub's Non-Doc Identity Verification extends global coverage, transforming African market

Issued by Tishala Communications 23 May 2024

A bird perches on an elephant as it walks at the Amboseli National Park in Kajiado County, Kenya, 4 April 2024. Reuters/Monicah Mwangi

Environment & Natural Resources

Elephant deaths trigger Kenyan call for Tanzania to curb hunts

Duncan Miriri 11 Apr 2024

VFS Global signs visa service contracts with UK, Norway, and Sweden governments

Travel

VFS Global signs visa service contracts with UK, Norway, and Sweden governments

10 Apr 2024

Farmers work at a cocoa farm in Daloa, Ivory Coast, 3 October 2023. Reuters/Ange Aboa/File Photo

ESG & Sustainability

EU will not delay deforestation law, environment chief says on Ivory Coast visit

Ange Aboa 8 Apr 2024

Chocolate prices continue to rise

Agro-processing

Chocolate prices continue to rise

Paul Makube 8 Apr 2024

Source: Tetiana Bykovets via

Agro-processing

Ivory Coast to raise cocoa farmgate price by 50%

Ange Aboa 2 Apr 2024

ACA Intern Programme: Nurturing future talents in collaboration with MICT SETA

Advertising

ACA Intern Programme: Nurturing future talents in collaboration with MICT SETA

Issued by Association for Communication and Advertising 15 Mar 2024

Source: Unsplash/Markus Spitke

Telecoms & Networks

Mutiple undersea cable faults affect internet in Africa

Anait Miridzhanian and Ngouda Dione 15 Mar 2024

African cocoa plants run out of beans as global chocolate crisis deepens

Agro-processing

African cocoa plants run out of beans as global chocolate crisis deepens

Maytaal Angel 14 Mar 2024

Ivory Coast regulator warns cocoa exporters not to overpay

Agriculture

Ivory Coast regulator warns cocoa exporters not to overpay

Ange Aboa 13 Mar 2024

ESG & Sustainability

IMF reaches $1.3bn agreement with Ivory Coast for resilience, sustainability facility

Portia Crowe 19 Feb 2024

Ghana's Cocobod to use $200m World Bank loan for cocoa farm rehabilitation

Agro-processing

Ghana's Cocobod to use $200m World Bank loan for cocoa farm rehabilitation

Maxwell Akalaare Adombila 19 Feb 2024

Source: Reuters.

Economy

Economic growth falls to 3.2% in 2023, African Development Bank

Rachel Savage 16 Feb 2024