*Airlines in Region May Lose $6bn The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has renewed its call for government relief measures as the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis in Africa deepen. IATA said the African region’s airlines could lose $6 billion of passenger revenue compared to 2019. That is $2billion more than was expected at the […]
Airbus and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) have announced the top 10 African tech start-ups that will take part in the latest Airbus Bizlab #Africa4Future accelerator programme. They were selected after an open public pitch event in front of experts, potential investors, the media and other stakeholders in Kenya’s capital city. #Africa4Future is […]
Kenya’s revenue from its tourism sector dropped 2.9 percent last year to KES84.6 billion shillings (USD$837.2 million). Visitor numbers and earnings have dropped in the past four years as al Shabaab militants from Somalia launched attacks on Kenyan soil in retaliation for Kenya’s military intervention. Showing the depth of the fall, tourist arrivals fell from […]
