SOCHI, RUSSIA, Oct 23, 2019 - (ACN Newswire) - Russia-Africa Summit will welcome many African leaders, mainly men and many in the political sphere. One well-known woman will stand out. Isabel dos Santos is a globally known African investor and she speaks more than 5 languages including Russian.

Black female-owned businesses are the fastest growing economic for...

The Future Energy Nigeria conference and exhibition is proud to host this year’s highly anticipated Women in Power Luncheon, which will take place during the event on 13 November in Lagos.

“The Women in Power Luncheon aims to celebrate the role that women play in the energy and power sectors” says Women in Power coordinator Yolisa Nyoka, “and the great co...

In Kenya, the beauty and cosmetics industry has become the new hub of investment that is pulling in both foreign and local entrepreneurs to establish new lines of beauty products. Despite its attractiveness, however, 70% of women say they still don't feel represented in the images they see on beauty brands every day.

This contradiction propelled by mainstre...

Visa has launched a new campaign initiative called ‘She’s Next’, which seeks to empower and encourage African female micro-and small-business owners as they fund, run and grow their businesses across the continent.

The global expansion of the campaign was announced at the 28th World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town, as part of Visa’s ongoing commitment to s...

@iBizAfrica and Standard chartered have joined efforts to support and guide women and their owned small enterprises through mentorship and funding even as the campaign to onboard more women into the workforce intensifies.

In partnership with Strathmore University, the two announce the return to an extensive search for women in technology, even calling for applic...

With South Africa’s unemployment rate recently increasing to 29%*, leading direct-selling beauty brand – Avon Justine – today announced the launch of its initiative to provide women with sustainable earning opportunities, tackling the country’s growing unemployment crisis while playing its part in empowering talented, yet undiscovered, local female entrepreneur...

On a warm and sunny afternoon in South Africa’s wine country, Ntsiki Biyela smiled as she remembered arriving here in the famed Stellenbosch region just east of Cape Town and seeing the strange “small trees” that lined the landscape.

The Africa Food Prize honours outstanding contributions within every aspect of agriculture and food production that is clearly related to combating hunger and reducing poverty in Africa. In this light, leading advocate for nutrition..

One of the most striking observations about the status and progress of women business ownership is that it is not always correlated to the wealth and level of development of an economy, reveals the Mastercard Index of Women Entrepreneurs (MIWE)