Seychelles: Training Session Shows Artists How to Make What Tourists in Seychelles Like to Buy

Seychelles News Agency

Straw hats, beachwear and jewellery are some of the items artisans in Seychelles learned to make from scratch in a four-day workshop organised in the island nation last week. Read more »

East Africa: East Africa's Glass Packaging Manufacturer Gets New Multi-Engine Power Plant

Daily News

CLARKE Energy has installed a multi-engine power plant at Kioo Limited's glass bottle manufacturing facility in Tanzania to improve product quality, meeting the on-site power… Read more »

Nigeria: NAFDAC Shuts Unregistered Honey Company in Abuja

Daily Trust

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control (NAFDAC) has shut down an unregistered honey packaging company in Abuja. Read more »

Nigeria: Nigerian Breweries Receives Monde Gold Quality Awards

This Day

Three leading brands from the Nigerian Breweries portfolio -Gulder, Goldberg and Star Lager-have received Gold prizes awards by the global independent institute, Monde Selection… Read more »

Nigeria: Tackling the Menace of Substandard Sanitary Pads in Nigeria

This Day

With the theme of this year's Menstrual Hygiene Day as 'It is Time for Action', Omolabake Fasogbon writes that it's time for the government, regulators and stakeholders to rise to… Read more »

Nigeria: Stricter Penalty for Producers of Substandard Products - SON

Daily Trust

Director General of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) Barrister Osita Aboloma says with SON Act 2015, stricter penalty now awaits manufacturers of substandard products. Read more »

Ethiopia: Chinese Firm Doubles Industrial Parks It Operates

Addis Fortune

Huajian Dongguan Hua Bao Shoes Co Ltd increased the number of industrial parks it operates to two by adding Jimma Industrial Park to its list. Read more »

Ethiopia: Leather Institute Replaces Director After Only Six Months

Addis Fortune

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) named former head of the Oromia Cooperative Promotion Agency, Dagnachew Shiferaw, as the new head of a federal agency charged with overseeing the… Read more »

Nigeria: Four Years After, Symptoms Persist in Manufacturing Sector

Guardian

Four years since the President Muhammadu Buhari administration assumed office, operators in the real sector, especially manufacturers, continue to complain about the same… Read more »

Nigeria: Porous Borders, Unending Rice Smuggling Weighs On Local Production

Guardian

Notwithstanding all efforts to promote local production of rice in the country, the protracted smuggling of the commodity appears to have grown to the extent of dominating the… Read more »

Liberia: What More Does Firestone Want From Liberia? [opinion]

Observer

What more does Firestone want from Liberia after exacting more than several pounds of flesh from the backs of the Liberian people for nearly a century is the question lingering on… Read more »

Ethiopia: Human Face of FDI

Addis Fortune

Netsanet Birhanu, like the thousands of other employees at Hawassa Industrial Park, is the lowest paid textile worker in the world, according to a new report from the STERN Centre… Read more »

Ghana: VLISCO to Headline 2019 Passion for Fashion

Ghanaian Times

Giant in quality African wax print, VLISCO, will this year headline one of the most anticipated events in the fashion circles, Passion for Fashion 2019. This year's event is under… Read more »

Ethiopia: Molsa to Push for Livable Wages in Ind. Parks

Reporter

The newly amended Ethiopian labor law, which is initiated by the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (MoLSA) and currently under review by the parliamentary standing committee, is… Read more »

Uganda: Court Stops Production of Nile Batteries Over Copyright Breach

Monitor

Court has halted the production and sale of batteries produced by Nile Batteries Limited (NBL) on claims that they infringe on a trademark registered and owned by Uganda Batteries… Read more »

South Africa: Kuga Fire - No Failure 'Within Ford's Control' - Expert

News24Wire

There is no evidence any product failure within Ford's control, caused the fire that burnt the Kuga Reshall Jimmy's body was found in, the Western Cape High Court heard on… Read more »

Nigeria: Nigeria to Produce Agric Machinery Soon - Minister

Guardian

Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, has said that Nigeria would soon begin the production of machinery for planting, harvesting and processing of agricultural… Read more »

Africa: Putting Water At the Heart of Sustainable Fashion

IPS

The Copenhagen Fashion Summit celebrated its tenth anniversary last week. The summit, which is often referred to as the Davos of fashion, is a key date in the fashion diary for… Read more »

Ethiopia: Local Group Lands JV Deal With Geepas

Reporter

Belayab Group - a conglomerate with a diversified business portfolio ranging from hospitality, electric cables supply and food processing in addition to car assembly has signed a… Read more »