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Ghanaian Chef Ebenezer Smith, also known as Millennium Chef, has reached a remarkable milestone of 450 hours in his ongoing Guinness World Record attempt for the longest individual cooking marathon. Supported by Amadia Shopping Center, Chef Smith embarked on this challenging journey on February 1st, 2024. At the Amadia Shopping …

Remoteli, a Ghana-based tech talent startup that connects African tech talents with remote workplace services, has raised £250,000 pre-seed funding (USD 315 K) to scale operations and expand across Africa. The funding round was led by Jeremie Frimpong, a Ghanaian-Dutch professional footballer who plays as a right wing-back for Bundesliga …

Uganda-based electric cooking startup PowerUP has announced the initial close of its seed round to expand to new geographies and products. PowerUP develops and deploys smart-metered PAYGO electric stoves customised for the African markets. With these solutions having so far cleaned up cooking in over 40,000 homes across Kenya. Uganda, …

The Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), Côte d’Ivoire 2023 took place from January 13 to February 11, 2024. This is the 34th edition of this competition which brings together the greatest talents of African football. At the end of the qualification phase, which ended in September 2023. 24 teams managed …