Handing power to Africa’s smaller businesses. A few organizations have now come together as ‘The Africa Club’ (Alliance of African Multilateral Finance Institutions). I moderated their first convening - accountability on whether SMEs feel seen & supported or just talking shop.

as well as the role multilateral institutions play in providing the critical financing needed.

A special thanks to our host, Georgie for guiding the discussion with great insights, ease, and engagement!

#AfricaDevelopment #PrivateSectorGrowth

New: Qatar & Rwandair are very close to finalising the partnership that’ll see Qatar Airways take a planned 49% stake in Rwandair. CEO Badr Al Meer also announces Qatar will take a stake in another African carrier, from the south of the continent, next month. #QatarEconomicForum

Pack light. ✨

The Man Who Interrupted The President - Georgie Ndirangu On How To Become A Master Public Speaker ow.ly/qQBH50RI9Fm

32 more Mondays until Christmas. Can the year just….relax.

OpenAI has just demonstrated its new GPT-4o model doing real-time translations 🤯

Scenario: you have 4 panelists, a curious audience, and 1 hour to get through the event. Here’s some quick math. #georgiehosts

Coca-Cola is gearing up for a potential IPO of its African bottling business as soon as next year after previously putting the plans on hold trib.al/wMEWKk9

Scenario: you have 4 panelists, a curious audience, and 1 hour to get through the event. Here’s some quick math. #georgiehosts

“What happened has made it so that I don’t trust anybody.”

Two-time Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge has told the BBC he feared for the lives of his family during a campaign of online abuse wrongly linking him to the death of fellow Kenyan marathon runner, Kelvin Kiptum.

That 6am drive was worth it! Amboseli National Park is known for elephants - looks like we saw all of them today. 🐘🏔️

TECH: The Financial Times reports that OpenAI and Meta are close to releasing artificial intelligence models 'capable of reasoning and planning', which are considered 'critical steps towards achieving superhuman cognition in machines'.

By the way, in 2018, BBC News Africa reached out to Akon and the Senegalese government to find out more about Akon's cryptocurrency and Akon City, but didn't get much. So the team went digging. THREAD.

Idris Elba is now leading construction of a smart city in Sierra Leone. A lot of comparison being made to “Akon City”. The difference this time:

1) not-for-profit
2) smaller scale
3) clearer partnership details
3) proper ground work has started

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