Katarina Höije

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Burn Manufacturing

Around 850 million people throughout Africa use wood or charcoal for cooking, damaging their health and the environment. At a summit in Paris in May, leaders from Togo, Tanzania and Sierra Leone backed a $2...

By Katarina Höije

Afex

To many of Nigeria’s over 38 million small-holder farmers poor access to farm inputs and markets, limited financing, and a lack of warehouses is a daily struggle. The arrival of AFEX Commodities Exchange, Nigeria's first...

By Katarina Höije

Spiro

Electric-motorbike startup Spiro bets on commuters' needs in increasingly congested African cities to grow its fleet of 14,000 electric two-wheelers. Founded in 2019, Spiro launched in Togo and Benin in 2022, followed by Kenya, Rwanda,...

By Katarina Höije
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