Ananse Village - African fair trade

Ananse Village offers the finest traditional African crafts produced in a fair trade environment. By working directly with village artisans they are able to positively affect the economic development in the most needy areas.

Ananse Village is dedicated to supporting small scale production by talented craftspeople. A portion of our profits helps provide medical care and educational opportunities to the communities we work with.

African Kiosk - Delivery service for East Africans

The African Kiosk is a company primarily established to cater for the needs of Ugandans, Kenyans and Rwandans living in the diaspora wishing to send gifts and other deliverables to their loved ones back home.

Their objective is to provide an online store offers specially designed flowers and a variety of supplementary gifts to enable the customer communicate more effectively, affordably and above all conveniently with their loved ones.

Deulco - Renewable energy development

Deulco Renewable Energy is a South African-based company with affiliate companies and partnerships in several crude vegetable oil (feedstock) producing developments (specifically for biodiesel). Deulco intends to expand its development into several Southern African countries within the next five years.

Mission is to combat global warming with the production of sustainable and renewable sources of energy, through the upliftment and true empowerment of rural and disadvantaged communities.

Paradigm Initiative - ICT for socio-economic opportunities in Nigeria

Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PIN), which started as on online volunteer team with the main objective of connecting Nigerian youths with ICT opportunities, is a social enterprise seeking to help deliver ICT for socio-economic opportunities in Nigeria.

Having worked with government, civil society, private institutions and international organisations, PIN has set standards in ICT education, telecentre support, ICT applications in rural areas, and other ICT4D interventions in Nigeria.

PIN provides five key services: Consulting, ICT Capacity Building, Research, Telecentre Support and Youth-led Social Technopreneurship. Through these services, PIN connects individuals, people-groups, institutions and communities with the socio-economic opportunities that ICTs provide.

Lighting Africa - Conference for Off-Grid lighting

Lighting Africa is a World Bank Group initiative aimed at providing up to 250 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa with access to non-fossil fuel based, low cost, safe, and reliable lighting products with associated basic energy services by the year 2030.

The Lighting Africa project was launched in September 2007 to help develop a robust off-grid lighting market in the region. The conference aims to:

- increase awareness of the market opportunities for lighting products and
services
- link global investors with local suppliers and service providers
- promote networking among entrepreneurs
- share market intelligence and model business structures for lighting projects
- showcase innovative products and promote business development

Timbuktu Chronicles - Afrika! Afrika!

Emeka Okafor at Timbuktu Chronicles reports on Afrika! Afrika!. An African version of Cirque du Soleil.

Afrika! Afrika!

Cultural capital can be of inestimable value if harnessed and nurtured. The acclaim and success of Andre Heller's Afrika! Afrika! described as an African Cirque du Soleil is further testament to the potency of the continents less tangible and undervalued human resources .Charles Spencer of the Telegraph writes:
The show's Viennese-born creator André Heller and his team scoured the length and breadth of Africa for two years looking for the best dancers, musicians, variety performers and circus acts they could find.They ended up with more than 100 artists from 17 African nations and have put them together in a show that leaves one feeling both breathless and elated.

Korean-led group to build Cameroon cement plant

Cameroon's The Entrepreneur Newspaper blog reports:

By Tansa Musa

South Korean-led consortium has signed a deal to build a 37 billion CFA francs ($82.68 million) cement factory in Cameroon, the Industry Ministry said on Thursday, January 17, 2008. The AFKO Cement Production Company, based in the southwestern town of Limbe, will have an annual production capacity of 1 million tonnes of cement and aims to start production from April.

"Our company will produce several qualities of cement including that which can be used in marine construction and the building of bridges at very affordable prices," the company's chairman, Sang Bong Lee, said in the statement.

Industries, Mines and Technological Development Minister Badel Ndinga Ndanga said the company would alleviate Cameroon's acute cement shortage.

Cameroon currently has only one cement factory, controlled by France's Lafarge , and prices have risen in recent months from 4,600 CFA francs per bag to over 6,000-7,000 in some localities.

Shareholders in the new plant include South Korea's AFKO, U.S. land development firm Atwell-Hicks, and Indonesia's PT Petras, ministry officials said.// Reuters

Green Africa Foundation

Green Africa Foundation is a Kenyan organization founded in 2000 to support ecological and environmental conservation with a particular focus in arid and semi arid lands of Kenya where poverty is most prevalent. The Foundation focuses on capacity development of poor communities through a partnership approach that integrates environmental conservation and community livelihoods.

Game Schedules for for the 2008 African Cup of Nations in Ghana

Group A Venue: Accra
Dates Teams Venues 20/01/08 Ghana v Guinea Accra 21/01/08 Namibia v Morocco Accra 24/01/08 Guinea v Morocco Accra 24/01/08 Ghana v Namibia Accra 28/01/08 Ghana v Morocco Accra 28/01/08 Guinea v Namibia Sekondi
	Group B Venue: Sekondi
Dates Teams Venues 21/01/08 Nigeria v Ivory Coast Sekondi 21/01/08 Mali v Benin Sekondi 25/01/08 Ivory Coast v Benin Sekondi 25/01/08 Nigeria v Mali Sekondi 29/01/08 Nigeria v Benin Sekondi 29/01/08 Ivory Coast v Mali Accra
	Group C Venue: Kumasi
Dates Teams Venues 22/01/08 Egypt v Cameroon Kumasi 22/01/08 Sudan v Zambia Kumasi 26/01/08 Cameroon v Zambia Kumasi 26/01/08 Egypt v Sudan Kumasi 30/01/08 Egypt v Zambia Kumasi 30/01/08 Cameroon v Sudan Tamale
	Group D Venue: Tamale
Dates Teams Venues 23/01/08 Tunisia v Senegal Tamale 23/01/08 South Africa v Angola Tamale 27/01/08 Senegal v Angola Tamale 27/01/08 Tunisia v South Africa Tamale 31/01/08 Tunisia v Angola Tamale 31/01/08 Senegal v South Africa Kumasi
	Quarter-finals
Dates Teams Venues 03/02/08 1. Group A winners v Group B runners-up Accra 03/02/08 2. Group B winners v Group A runners-up Sekondi 04/02/08 3. Group C winners v Group D runners-up Kumasi 04/02/08 4. Group D winners v Group C runners-up Tamale
	Semi-finals
Dates Teams Venues 07/02/08 Winner quarter-final 1 v Winner quarter-final 4 Accra 07/02/08 Winner quarter-final 2 v Winner quarter-final 3 Kumasi
Dates Teams Venues 09/02/08 Third place play-off Accra
Dates Teams Venues 10/02/08 Final Accra