Though not responsible for global warming, African countries must adapt their economies and their budgets. On average, they are looking to make investments equal to more than 2.8% of their current GDPs, according to the Power Shift Africa report. A rate that is hardly sufficient. By Ulrich Viany, in Cotonou...

Global study realized by the NGO Education.org highlights key lessons from a decade of accelerated learning across Africa condensing three school years into one for out-of-school children affected by extreme poverty, conflict, and Ebola. Foundation says Africa can lead world in learning recovery, launches evidence-based guide for education leaders to...

A new study commissioned by the World Savings and Retail Banking Institute looks at the opportunities that digitalization offers to strengthen financial inclusion for low-income customers in Africa.  By Ange Iliza  Released on September 30 by the World Savings and Retail Banking Institute (WSBI)-an international banking association of nearly 7,000...

200 of Tunisia’s elite medical students will have access to Harvard Medical School’s HMX online learning platform in the next five years. The funding will enable medical faculties at the Universities of Tunis El Manar, Sfax, Sousse and Monastir, to offer Harvard Medical School fundamental courses and lectures in biochemistry,...

African and European doctors and researchers are currently conducting a major study on the continent. This study will take place in thirteen African countries (DRC, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Uganda and Sudan). Its goal is to find treatments for so-called benign...

The consultancy firm Roland Berger carried out, at the request of the Women in Africa (WIA) platform, its annual study on female entrepreneurship. The 2020 edition, "Accelerating the entrepreneurial dynamic of women in Africa - Improving access to finance to support the entrepreneurial dynamic", confirms the trend: if women are...

Damilade Oluwasina is currently the digital economy program Lead in the African Leadership University (ALU) in Kigali. Entrepreneur, teacher, a stakeholder in the associative world but also a student, the Nigerian train the coming generation of African leaders putting into practice the value of the university. A teaching method by...

After a first opening in Mauritius, the African Leadership University opened its doors in Rwanda in 2017 with the ambition to train the future Pan-African leaders. With students from 40 African countries and placed in the Kigali Innovation City in a brand new campus, the institution provides teaching based on...

More than one month after the announcement of schools reopening, numerous Rwandan students are still learning from their house. A source of stress and a lack of practical skills that could cost them their final exam. Knowing this fact, the government hopes to open more classes by the end of...