Leading the conversation on Climate in Africa
African cities are growing faster than almost anywhere else in the world. This rapid growth has created enormous demand for affordable urban transport. Motorcycles, known locally as boda bodas or okadas, fill much of that gap. They are cheap, flexible, and able to navigate crowded, unpredictable streets. Most of these vehicles still run on gasoline,…
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Electricity grids have always faced one core challenge. Supply and demand must match perfectly at every single moment. For most of history, this balance relied heavily on fossil fuel power plants. These plants could ramp up or down whenever demand required it. As renewable energy grows, this balancing act has become far more complicated. Solar…
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Access to electricity remains out of reach for many households worldwide. Traditional grid expansion is slow, expensive, and often impractical in rural areas. Building power lines across remote terrain requires massive upfront investment. For many governments, this investment simply never reaches the top of priorities. Meanwhile, families continue relying on kerosene lamps or costly diesel…
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Farming has always depended on timing. Knowing when to plant is often more important than how. For generations, farmers relied on memory and tradition to guide this timing. They watched the sky, the soil, and patterns passed down by elders. Climate change has quietly broken many of these old, reliable patterns. Rains now arrive late,…
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Smallholder farmers grow a large share of the world’s food. They also face some of the greatest risks from a changing climate. A single drought or flood can wipe out an entire season. Without savings or safety nets, one bad harvest can be devastating. This is where agricultural insurance should play a critical role. Yet…
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Every year, farmers grow enough food to feed billions of people. Yet a huge share of that food never reaches a plate. It rots in fields, spoils in transit, or decays in markets. This is post-harvest loss, and it is a quiet crisis. Unlike droughts or floods, it rarely makes headlines. It happens slowly, invisibly,…
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Africa50, the Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation and Egyptian energy company TAQA Arabia have signed an agreement to develop the first phase of a small-scale liquefied natural gas project designed to distribute domestic natural gas to industrial and transportation customers across Tanzania. The deal, announced alongside a fresh capital raise for Africa50, marks a concrete step…
KCB Bank Kenya, KCB Foundation, Mastercard and Heifer International Kenya have launched the Farmer Visibility Project, a nine month pilot designed to bring digital payments and formal financial records to 30,000 smallholder dairy farmers across Kenya. The initiative was unveiled in Nairobi and marks one of the most ambitious KCB Mastercard dairy farmers Kenya collaborations…
Small Foundation has announced a new capital commitment to AgDevCo Ventures, a specialist investment vehicle set up to deliver long term, patient financing to high potential, early stage agribusinesses across East Africa. The announcement deepens a long standing partnership between the two organizations, since Small Foundation was one of AgDevCo’s original early stage backers and…
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TVS Motor Company has launched its premium electric scooter in Kenya. This TVS iQube electric scooter Kenya debut took place in Nairobi on August 6, 2026. The launch makes TVS the first Indian original equipment manufacturer to introduce a premium electric scooter anywhere in Africa. It also marks Kenya as TVS Motor’s entry point into…
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