Speaking with Communications Africa, Hamad AI Mannai, vice-president of EshailSat, spoke about the challenges, low-cost broadband technology and its onging or upcoming projects in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region
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Top African regions set to become leading startup and investment hubs, says HAVAÍC
Many African cities are quickly emerging as leading startup and investment hubs to watch, according to Ian Lessem, managing partner at HAVAÍC
VARTA supplies the primary lithium coin cell CR1216
VARTA has supplied primary lithium button cells, CR1216 to the Norwegian company Disruptive Technologies, manufacturer of the worlds smallest wireless sensors
Ecobank Group partners with Microsoft to accelerate Africa’s digital economy
Pan-African banking group Ecobank Group, in partnership with Microsoft, LinkedIn, GitHub and Ecobank Academy, is set to provide training to equip Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) across sub-Saharan Africa
Midwives bring portable ultrasound technology to Kenya’s remote communities
Through a partnership between the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), AMREF International University and the Phillips Foundation, portable ultrasound technology is being made available to midwives from far-flung health centres in remote parts of Kenya