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7 August 2017
High up in the Himalayas, where yak have roamed the mountainsides for centuries, generation after generation of Nepalese have...
21 July 2017
If you drive west of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the soil turns into a deep russet red, and the terrain unfurls, undulating into...
20 July 2017
Biniyam Tesfaye was working as an electrical power engineer in Addis Ababa in 2014 when he came upon a colleague one day weeping...
7 July 2017
While over 20% of Americans now shop for groceries online, in most of sub-Saharan Africa, the average household still buys...
7 June 2017
If you’ve ever been a student, you might know the feeling of trying to break into an industry without any contacts or access to...
22 May 2017
Afroes began as a small start-up in South Africa with a mission to “gamify” Africa’s 21st-century learning needs. The digital...
11 May 2017
Global Supply Solutions’ new plant has the capacity to produce 50 metric tons of biomass briquettes in a year. This alternative...
7 March 2017
Talking to Charlotte De Ridder and Nastia Gutsol, it's obvious they love what they do. So it seems fitting that they celebrated...
28 February 2017
Senegalese entrepreneur Abdoul Diallo is working to address two needs at once: young people’s need for training and digital start...
24 January 2017
The Women Innovators Network Caribbean (WINC) — a cornerstone initiative of the Entrepreneurship Program for Innovation in the...