Category — Africa

Africa’s first-ever solar-powered car race is underway in South Africa to raise awareness about alternative energy and promote science and technology. (more)

Basketball Without Borders program offers lessons on hoops and life. (more)

From a tiny spare bedroom turned international headquarters, two Denver women are quietly trying to right an off-kilter world — one throw pillow at a time. (more)

U.S. actress-activist Mia Farrow aired an “alternative” Olympic opening ceremony in a Web cast Friday, showing Darfur refugees in the barren deserts of eastern Chad playing sports on sandy fields. (more)

Inventor Martin Fisher designs easy irrigation tools for African farmers. (more)

French wireless operator Orange says it has signed a deal with Apple to sell its iPhone in the Middle East, Africa and several European countries. (more)

Soft drinks giant Coca-Cola announced it would invest 50 million dollars in its five franchises in Kenya, where post-election violence adversely affected the firm. (more)

Rising food prices are changing the diets and farming priorities of families in the fertile forests of Ivory Coast who make a living from cash crops like cocoa and coffee. (more)

Demand is soaring for “Obama,” which at 40 cents a glass is marketed to low-income consumers as an alternative to dangerous, cheap home brews. (more)

Impressive growth of visitors from nontraditional places, including China, now put tourism ahead of gold mining. (more)

Cadbury Schweppes promises to invest 44 million pounds over the next decade to support high-quality sustainable cocoa output in Ghana, India, Indonesia and the Caribbean. (more)

Harley to open Mid-east, Africa regional office. (more)

Why has Terrance Mohlala made it when so many others like him in South Africa – one of the least entrepreneurial nations in the world – have not? (more)

In South African slums, lives lifted by a chance to play. (more)

For its efforts at increased innovation and product quality, two products of Procter & Gamble (P&G) Nigeria Limited, Ariel and Vicks have been awarded a superbrand status by Superbrands Limited. (more)

Citos Reyes, the new country manager for Century Bottling Company, explains his plans for Coca-Cola in Uganda. (more)

South African companies are beginning to follow their international counterparts in blocking workers’ access to popular social-networking site Facebook.(more)

BMW’s HP2 Megamoto – the second bike in the company’s exclusive “High Performance” series – will be released internationally this month. (more)

Nairobi became the epicenter of corporate wars as the fight for a slice of sports mileage intensified. (more)

It appears that Ogilvy is the first ad agency to introduce a dedicated “shopper marketing” division to South Africa. (more)

Starbucks Corp., which for months had rejected a licensing agreement with Ethiopia, agrees to a marketing deal regarding specialty coffee names that originate from the East African country. (more)

Burundi’s coffee sector is expected to gain from an expanded export market and international exposure following the entry of giant US coffee buyer, Starbucks, into that market. (more)

Starbucks Coffee Company announces it will increase its coffee purchases in East Africa two fold in two years. (more)

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention has sent a letter to General Motors criticizing an ad that shows a perfectionist assembly line robot dreaming about jumping off a bridge after dropping a bolt. (more)

When the government of one of the world’s poorest nations learned that Whoopi Goldberg had taken a DNA test showing her ancestors hail from here, the news reverberated through the halls of parliament. (more)

Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi claims Coca Cola is African and wants a share of the money. (more)