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Kenyan social innovator Wawira Njiru has received the German Africa Prize 2026 for turning school feeding into a model for jobs, local food systems and economic development.

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Airtripmaker said Sept. 4, 2026, that it expanded its business and first-class airline booking network from the U.S., adding broader coverage across nearly 30 elite carriers.

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PayitFast and Zameera have signed an MOU to bring Zameera’s ultra-luxury travel experiences to PayitFast members through Verati, the payments platform’s lifestyle and concierge arm. The partnership gives members access to curated trips that have…

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Water 4 Mercy has hired veteran TV reporter Robert Boyd full time as executive vice president of external relations as the nonprofit expands its clean-water and community-development work across Africa.

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Influential Women profiled Prudence Bushnell, a retired U.S. ambassador and career Foreign Service officer whose career included senior posts in Africa and a crisis-tested tenure in Kenya.

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Legion 44, a new documentary from Leila Conners and Tree Media, is now available on Tree+, Apple TV and Amazon as Climate Week gets underway in New York. The film spotlights engineers and scientists trying to remove carbon from the atmosphere and…

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The Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative and the Eastern Africa Alliance on Carbon Markets and Climate Finance have launched a partnership to help East African governments build policies, capacity and infrastructure for high-integrity…

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Influential Women is recognizing Brenda Tenison for building Bbright, a faith-based nonprofit that serves children in Thailand, Kenya and the Dominican Republic.

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TX Solar displayed its off-grid solar street lights and automatic lift high mast towers at the Canton Fair in Guangzhou, targeting global infrastructure buyers, EPC contractors and municipal procurement teams.

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AURA is rolling out Google Maps Platform across its responder apps, customer apps and dispatch systems in South Africa, Kenya, the UK and the U.S. The integration is meant to improve route accuracy, ETA precision and live traffic intelligence for…

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AIOTF Software acquired Brampton-based CPAT Technologies to combine AI inferencing with GS1-aligned pharmaceutical traceability tools.

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Godfrey Atsing’a was appointed a World Civility Ambassador at a public ceremony in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, on July 27, 2026. The honor from iChange Nations™ recognizes his journalism and humanitarian work across Africa and puts him in a network…

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AITEC World has announced two global tourism gatherings for late 2026 in London and Addis Ababa, framing them as a push for more African travel, investment and trade.

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Virtuoso’s 2026 Luxe Report says affluent travelers want more space, wildlife, authenticity and conservation, a shift that could favor Uganda’s parks, lodges and adventure offerings.

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Alabaster International will hold ETCHED on Sept. 12 at Serendipity Labs Costa Mesa to raise money for its enset program and spotlight women smallholder farmers in Ethiopia and Kenya.

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King Tikoe Tefo Meshack Lekitlane of the Kham Royal Kingdom signed a memorandum of understanding with the State of the African Diaspora on Sept. 5 in Randfontein, South Africa.

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CGIAR used the Africa Food Systems Forum in Kigali to showcase scalable, investment-ready tools aimed at helping African countries deliver their 2026-2035 agriculture plan.

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Bower, a Gold Coast startup, raised AUD $2 million in pre-seed funding to build AI that captures and structures scientific work at the bench.

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America’s Mountain Festival and Tava House in Woodland Park, Colorado, were named a 2026 Venue of the Year Award nominee by the Mountain West Country Music Association.

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Workable Nairobi has become the first shared workspace operator in Africa to earn the WELL Coworking Rating, a milestone that adds third-party validation to its wellness-led positioning.