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Alistair Mokoena is a respected leader in the advertising and marketing industry who is passionate about using technology to solve social and economic challenges.
Mokoena is currently serving as Google’s Country Director for South Africa. In this role, Mokoena is responsible for leading the company’s business operations in South Africa.
He is also focused on driving the country’s digital transformation and economic growth.
The African Development Fund (ADF), the concessional financing arm of the African Development Bank Group, has approved a grant of 1.7 billion CFA francs (about $2.8 million) to support private sector growth in West Africa’s monetary union.
Acumen has announced a new investment in Omia Agribusiness Development Group, a Northern Uganda-based enterprise working with smallholder farmers, including those in refugee-hosting communities, to improve access to agricultural inputs, training, and markets.
Cape Town-based health technology company, AI Diagnostics, has secured ZAR85 million (about US$5.2 million) in new funding to expand the reach of its artificial intelligence-driven tools aimed at improving tuberculosis (TB) detection.
