LOUKIL Bassem, Sfax-born Tunisian businessman, is CEO of UADH/LOUKIL Group (35 companies, 4,300 employees across automotive, tech, industry, services). Georgia State BBA & MBA holder, he presides over the Tunisian African Business Council.
Garbage bins in the city center fill up to the brim and go unnoticed for a while by the Nairobi City Council, but a new mobile app is promising to bring to an end the menace. Reporttaka is a mobile application for crowd-sourced information on uncollected garbage around the city
The South African state broadcaster has been banned from reporting negative news about the embattled President Jacob Zuma, as he “deserves a certain degree of respect as president of the country.” According to a local newspaper City Press, the order was allegedly given by chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng at
US First Lady Michelle Obama has urged teens in Africa to keep fighting to stay in school. Michelle Obama in the company of her daughters Sasha and Malia, and the girls’ grandmother, Marian Robinson, was speaking in Liberia where she launched her latest Africa visit on Monday. After being received
It has been called a controversy, a skirmish but The Economist rightly calls it the Scramble for Africa. It has played out in a disturbingly similar manner as the Berlin Conference, says The Economist. Lawyers in California are at the heart of the tugging, pulling and endless litigations and appeals
Not many people look at water and see a perfect ground to lay foundations. The people of Makoko are an exception; they go against the norm and float above water and all manner of turbulence. The community endures on in the State of Lagos which seems uninterested in having them
Africa is home to the youngest population in the world and yet its leaders are arguably the oldest too. This dichotomy is hard to understand. Why does a continent with a median age of 19.5 and an average of 18 have old leaders? When taken into context, half of
African opposition parties have for long been the vanguards of human rights in the continent but their major weakness is in their very identity of being opposition and nothing else. They keep losing elections regardless of how popular they are or seem to be and after every election they break
Today more than ever, entrepreneurs are bold enough to venture into new territories to create solutions to various needs in the society. Many start-ups are launched, some live to see another day, others collapse due to various challenges, but those that triumph over the bottlenecks, are celebrated. Here is a
