November 15, 2016
Africa: Transnet and GE Transportation Working Together to Digitize Africa's Supply Chain
Transnet has partnered with GE Transportation to create a digital solution that will seamlessly connect shippers and transport operators to enable an efficient movement of goods. Read more »
Africa: Tackling the First Mile of Care
A challenge to the global health community to help crowdsource ideas to address some of the largest problems facing global primary care today. Read more »
November 09, 2016
Africa: Ado Oseragbaje: Localisation Is Key to GE's Development of Its Oil & Gas Businesses In Sub-Saharan Africa
GE’s new President and CEO of Sub-Saharan Africa for Oil & Gas, Ado Oseragbaje, is optimistic about the future of GE in enabling and developing an industrial… Read more »
Africa: Innovation at Work: End October Marked 120 Days of the GE Africa Innovation Center (AIC)
October was a very special month for us at GE AIC. While our building was branded by GE Healthcare with glorious banners promoting Breast Cancer Awareness Month – and… Read more »
November 03, 2016
Africa: GE Africa Innovation Centre & Lionesses of Africa Women Entrepreneurs' Challenge
Join us as we Innovate and Invent…In Africa… For Africa Read more »
October 31, 2016
Africa: GE and Baker Hughes To Form New Fullstream Digital-Industrial Service Company
GE and Baker Hughes agreed to combine GE Oil & Gas and Baker Hughes to create a world-leading oil and gas technology and services provider. The new name of the company will be… Read more »
November 03, 2016
Africa: How Digital Industry Can Solve the Sustainable Development Goals
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November 02, 2016
Africa: Healthcare will be the Industry to Propel More Women into Leadership
As the healthcare segment of a digital industrial company, GE Healthcare is expected to do what any business must do: drive growth and a strong balance sheet. Read more »
October 28, 2016
Africa: How The Global GE Team Came Together For A Uniquely African Innovation Centre
The GE Global Operations Properties team was tasked with planning, designing and building the Africa Innovation Centre (AIC), after evaluating the results and key… Read more »
October 18, 2016
Africa: South African Jay Caboz wins GE Energy & Infrastructure Award at CNN Multichoice African Journalist Awards 2016
Caboz, a writer for Forbes Africa, in South Africa, won for his piece ‘40 Years of Mozambique - The Dead Port that Rose Again’ which was chosen from entries spanning 38… Read more »
September 24, 2016
Africa: Turn Me On: The World's Largest Powerships Are Helping To Electrify Asia, Africa
A floating power plant isn't something you see every day. The massive ships look like plants you'd see on land complete with tall exhaust stacks—except these plants are… Read more »
Africa: Supporting Trade, Not Aid, In Africa
When it comes to Africa, President Obama's mantra has always been "trade not aid." Two years ago he put that idea into practice at the first U.S. – Africa Business… Read more »
September 22, 2016
Africa: GE Africa President/CEO, Jay Ireland Appointed as Chair of President Obama's Advisory Council on Business Priorities for Africa
The appointments are announced in conjunction with the second U.S.-Africa Business Forum Read more »
September 21, 2016
Africa: GE Reinforces Commitment to Africa at 2016 U.S.-Africa Business Forum
The African growth story is still real. Read more »
September 18, 2016
Africa: Gulp! These Scientists Are Turning CO2 Into Fish Food
It’s not often that you hear about the virtues of carbon dioxide. CO2 is a gas whose surfeit has turned it into one of the main contributors to global warming. But this… Read more »
Africa: Solar Has Big Limitations, But This Wonder Material May Change That
Three years ago, Oxford University physicist Henry Snaith, one of the earliest researchers of perovskite, said that material would usher in a "new era for low-cost,… Read more »
September 08, 2016
Africa: GE's Graduate Engineering Training Programme Is Giving Women The Opportunity To Excel
GE’s offer of best-in-class training for young engineers, known as the Graduate Engineering Training Programme, is open to women and men alike. However, women in technical… Read more »
Africa: Inside Africa's Floating Hospital
and the Operating Rooms Where the surgeon Dr. Leo Cheng is helping patients in need Read more »
September 02, 2016
Africa: Africa's Got Engineering Talent
GE's engineering talent is a crucial ingredient in delivering infrastructure and solutions across the world. The Graduate Engineering Training Programme aims to create a top… Read more »
Africa: $20-Million Women's Health Initiative Kicks Off With Training In Nairobi
By the end of 2015, roughly 99% of the world's maternal deaths had occurred in developing regions with Sub-Saharan Africa accounting for two-thirds of that number. Added to this… Read more »
August 17, 2016
Africa: GE Celebrates 10 Years of Olympic Games Sponsorship and Surpasses $1.5 Billion in Infrastructure Sales to Host Cities since 2006
Over 1,000 infrastructure projects completed since 2006 with over 180 projects for Rio 2016 GE technology included in all Rio 2016 Olympic Games competition venues GE… Read more »
August 11, 2016
Africa: Benefits Beyond Borders: How ATAG is Furthering the Sustainable Growth of Aviation
Air Transport Action Group (ATAG) issued Aviation: Benefits Beyond Borders last month that focuses on the myriad of benefits that aviation brings to the world today… Read more »
August 08, 2016
Africa: Inside Rio 2016's Amazing Polyclinic
The Olympic Games is a festival of physicality, with the superhuman feats of thousands of athletes, a source of awe for billions of mortals spectating from couches around the… Read more »
August 06, 2016
Africa: Lights, Power, Passion - Illuminating the Rio Olympic Games
GE infrastructure lets 5 billion people participate in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games Read more »
August 02, 2016
Africa: Powering Peak Performance For Rio 2016
Think of the preparation for the Olympic Games as running on twin tracks: one for the athletes and the other for the host city. Both will be subjected to extraordinary demands as… Read more »