Year: 2026

IMAGE: bird story agency Local cotton manufacturing moves into surgical textiles as Africa seeks import alternatives and channels more fibre into homegrown factories. By Seth Onyango, bird story agency African manufacturers are increasingly turning locally […]

IMAGE: bird story agency After years of green hydrogen announcements centred on future exports, Africa’s hydrogen race is increasingly attracting investment into manufacturing, engineering, financing and industrial infrastructure. Recent developments suggest the continent is beginning […]

IMAGE: bird story agency Major tournaments, growing golf circuits and new tourism ventures are putting Africa’s fairways in play for a much bigger market. From South Africa and Kenya to Rwanda, Morocco and Uganda, golf […]

IMAGE: bird story agency India’s EV expansion into Africa is becoming a strategic challenge to China’s early dominance of the continent’s electric mobility market. From Kenya and Malawi to Tanzania, Zanzibar and South Africa, Indian […]

Student at FUNIA university working on a loom in Awkete, Abia, Nigeria on July 29, 2026. Photo: Toochi Gabriel, bird story agency Once primarily worn as wrappers and ceremonial dress, Akwete cloth is finding new […]

Studio 11 co-founder, Nafkot Gebeyehu, (left) speaking with co-founder, Zion Yaynu, during a video call at the gallery in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on July 1, 2026. Photo: Solan Kolli, bird story agency Two artists in […]

12 August 2026 Electronic banking is almost taking up a very significant portion in the banking industry. This vast remarkable progress took its shape and place based on the new e-banking laws and regulations issued […]

Shifra Ainomugisha and farmers posing with solar panels at the farm in Ibanda. Photo Courtesy: Commonwealth Secretariat Four years ago, Ugandan engineer Shifra Ainomugisha, now 28, turned the rotten tomatoes of her childhood into a […]