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New: Access Holdings channels N34.2bn to women-owned businesses
Women-owned businesses received N34.2 billion in financing from Access Holdings Plc in 2025, highlighting the financial services group’s targeted push to extend credit to enterprises ...
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Appointment
Anne Juuko lead East African Development Bank as new CEO
The East African Development Bank has appointed Anne Juuko as its new chief executive, placing a seasoned banking and capital markets executive at the helm ...
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Ecobank commits $2bn to boost lending for African women entrepreneurs
Pan-African lender Ecobank Group has announced plans to extend $2 billion in credit to women-owned businesses across Sub-Saharan Africa over the next three years, signalling ...
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WOMAN OF THE WEEK: Annepeace Alwala, OGW, VP, Global Service Delivery, Sama
Annepeace Alwala, is among the few leaders whose career spans broadcasting, customer care and artificial intelligence, and that range now shapes Kenya’s place in the ...
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Appointment
New: Morocco’s King names Fatima El Mansouri as First Woman Prime Minister
King Mohammed VI has appointed Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, as Morocco’s prime minister. She is the first woman to hold the post in the kingdom ...
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Nigeria’s Women Affairs Minister calls for partnerships to boost women participation in AI, Tech, and Green Energy
Nigeria’s Minister of Women Affairs, Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, has urged closer cooperation among government, businesses and development organisations to open routes for women into technology, artificial ...
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Alitheia Capital, 300 women-led businesses push for new financing models
Alitheia Capital and some 300 women-led businesses in manufacturing, agribusiness and nutrition have called for financing solutions built around their needs. The firm warned that ...
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First Lady Fatima Bio champions Africa’s call for reparative justice and creative economy growth
During the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York, Sierra Leone’s First Lady, H.E. Fatima Maada Bio, joined her Angolan counterpart, H.E. Ana Dias ...
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Standard Chartered Nigeria celebrates graduation of women in Tech Cohort 7
Standard Chartered Nigeria has officially marked the graduation of Cohort 7 of its flagship Women in Tech Incubator programme, reaffirming the bank’s commitment to empowering ...
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Appointment
Infobip appoints Mirta Pađen Lee as new VP of People to drive AI-first transformation
Global AI-first cloud communications platform Infobip has appointed Mirta Pađen Lee as Vice President of People, effective 1 October 2026. The appointment supports the company’s ...
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