High Road Craft Ice Cream’s founders showed up at a trade show in Shanghai with high hopes of dazzling Asia’s culinary world with their globally inspired flavors. Their product, however, arrived as a soupy mess, dashing their hopes of an export deal and providing a cautionary tale about the perils of going too far, too fast. […]
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Atlanta Solar Firm Connects More Villages to ‘Mini-Grids’ in Nigeria, Kenya
Atlanta-based Renewvia Energy Corp. has taken new steps toward its dream of bringing solar energy to off-grid communities in Africa, building a scalable business in the process. In separate projects, Renewvia has netted $1.8 million in funding to enable more of its “mini-grid” projects in Kenya, where it has piloted the concept and built out its […]
Covid-19 Amplifies Carter Center Efforts in Liberia
Once again The Carter Center is in the midst of providing relief to a health-related crisis in Liberia. This time, it’s containing the Covid-19 virus. But unlike the past health and mental health crises, the center has a legacy of in-country experience to aid in its response. Once the coronavirus was first detected in mid-March […]
Locust Plague Prompts GSU PhD Student to Consider Alternative Food Source
A new generation of locusts will be hatched in just a few weeks, which will mature into ravenous teenagers possibly sweeping across East, Central and West Africa as well as turning eastward toward Pakistan. Their parents have accosted northern Kenya and the Horn of Africa already, devouring hundreds of thousands of acres of crops including […]
COVID-19 Provides Opportunities and Challenges for African Universities
COVID-19 has forced African universities to re-imagine their futures and seek out ways of adopting blended curriculums that utilize on-line learning formats but don’t entirely sacrifice classroom instruction, according to university officials brought together by the Atlanta-based IUGB Foundation for a Trans-Atlantic webinar May 20. The IUGB Foundation is an outgrowth of an historical relationship […]
Socially Distanced Ramadan Starts Tonight: What Employers Should Know
Islam’s holy month of Ramadan begins April 23, kick-starting a season of devotion and celebration that will look drastically different this year amid a pandemic. With many mosques closed in Atlanta to adhere to social distancing guidelines, Muslims around the city and state will miss Friday prayers and the traditional community iftar dinners where they break fast […]
A Primary School’s Defiance of Local Vandals in Eastern Congo
Education has provided the foundation for Neema Namadamu’s career as a global activist. Even as a child living in a small, remote village in the violence prone Democratic Republic of Congo, she was determined to walk to school with an improvised cane despite having been partially crippled by polio. It’s not really surprising that once […]
Supply-Chain Software Firm With Global Reach Raises $3.6M
An Atlanta-based software firm with more than 100 global customers including Coca-Cola Beverages Africa and France’s Michelin Tires, has raised $3.6 million from existing investors in its latest funding round. Demand Driven Technologies’ solutions help companies better manage their supply chains, aligning the purchase of materials to sales rather than loose forecasts. CEO Erik Bush says […]
Civil Society: Goal of ‘Hero Rising Women’ in Eastern Congo
It is a profound tragedy that one of the most mineral rich areas of the world with the most fertile ground has been a killing field with roving bands of armed men and boys under the command of a variety of different warlords and clashing armies. Such is the recent history of the eastern Democratic […]
Ambassador Visit to Celebrate Georgia-Cote D’Ivoire Cooperation
While the legacy of colonialism in Africa has left divisions between countries with official European languages, the evolution of common markets and globalization are bringing them closer together, Amini Kajunju, the executive director of the foundation supporting the International University of Grand Bassam (IUGB) in the Francophone West African nation of Cote d’Ivoire, told Global […]
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