Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork The challenges of this financing are magnified in sub-Saharan Africa, as there is a paucity of projects that meet the high-water mark required by most investment banks. Basic requirements include experienced and credit-worthy sponsors, healthy financial ratios and forecasts, exhaustive technical due diligence, and a stable and cohesive political and […]
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Following on from partnerships and dual listings with a number of African capital markets, the London Stock Exchange (LSE) is looking to foster dual listings with the West African regional exchange. “We are looking to attract and encourage dual listings,” Ibukun Adebayo, co-head of emerging markets at the LSE Group,
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Smartphones and cars can focus on what each one does best with the arrival of this new dashboard connection technology. Hyundai has become the first carmaker to ship Google’s new smartphone connection software, starting with 2015 Sonatas that have factory nav. It’s arriving in those cars in three ways: Cars
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Microsoft is aiming to connect rural residents in Nanyuki, a market town in Laikipia County in central Kenya, with low-cost wireless Internet. The move aims to deliver affordable Internet service and connectivity to central Kenya as a means of providing service to under-served regions of the country. According to Microsoft: “The
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follow us on twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Men’s Fitness A flood of recent studies is giving us new insights into how important getting enough good sleep is for staying healthy, feeling great, and thinking straight. So take a short siesta and check out the slumber stats below. Sleep deprivation makes you eat more. Skip sleep, and
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follow us on twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork ACEP NOW APRIL 2015 A Deadly Case of MANOPAUSE A quest for the Fountain of Youth may cost more years than it gains. The Case “I told him he never should have started that medication,” said the patient’s worried wife. Several hours earlier, her husband had presented to the
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SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY AND THE FUTURE OF MEDICINE JAMA April 14, 2015 The Culture of Organs, a book published in 1938 by Nobel Laureate Alexis Carrel and well-known aviator Charles Lindbergh, described how organs could be kept “alive” in culture for months, with the intent to reuse them. Decades later, regenerative medicine, a field of science that
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follow us on twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Men’s Fitness 1 Eat six small meals a day. Stoking your body with food every three to four hours can rev your metabolism to the max. 2 Run 10 100-yard sprints and burn up to 500 calories. 3 Wait 20 minutes before going for seconds. 4 Throw on a hoodie before
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Drones are a controversial topic when it comes to national security. However cargo drones, with their potential applications for last mile delivery in remote areas and humanitarian emergency situations, are tipped to be an exciting area of innovation for Africa. But who is behind the push for cargo drones in
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork As the evolution of mobile banking continues to disrupt the financial services sector, the founder and executive chairman of privately held telecoms conglomerate Econet Wireless Group sounded the death knell for traditional transaction banking. “The transactional side of banking is gone,” Strive Masiyiwa tells This Is Africa on the side
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