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Sherah Beckley a Ghanaian based in the UK has been announced as winner of WeAreTheCity Rising Star Awards in the Media and Journalism Category.

Sherah, born and raised in Ghana, West Africa is the Sustainability Specialist for Thomson Reuters and part of their global Corporate Responsibility & Inclusion team.

A Ugandan inventor has won a major prize for a device which tests for malaria without drawing blood. Brian Gitta, 24, won the Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for a device that detects tell-tale signs of malaria by shining a red beam of light on the patient's finger.

Kodjo Afate Gnikou, a resourceful inventor from Togo in West Africa, has made a $100 3D printerwhich he constructed from parts he scrounged from broken scanners, computers, printers and other e-waste.

Startups from across Africa are now invited to apply for round three of Katapult Accelerator in Oslo, Norway. To be selected, the startups must be early-stage and use exponential technology like blockchain or AI to solve a social or environmental challenge.

Visa’s Everywhere Initiative awards up to US$50,000 – a US$25,000 prize and potentially up to US$25,000 in pilot funding – plus the potential opportunity to work with Visa to companies that can help solve any of three challenges.

The African Development Bank, in collaboration with the Government of Côte d’Ivoire, held an innovation and entrepreneurship competition and an African Youth Agripreneur Forum, or AgriPitch, in Abidjan on April 9-13, 2018. The competition selected the most promising young innovators and entrepreneurs in agriculture and agribusiness and provided competitors with training in innovative capacity.

A Burundian living in Norway speaks on his journey as an Angel Investor in the African Diaspora. (Medium.Com)

This article talks about Ocean Sole, TakaTaka, All Women Recycling and Repurpose Schoolbags and the solutions entrepreneurs are developing for a continent that is rapidly being polluted with plastic waste.

James Banks, Co-Founder of Web3 and WP Absolute wrote about his top 30+ startup business tools and why.

Students taking Design of Mechatronics at the Technical University of Denmark have created some seriously elegant and striking Raspberry Pi speakers. Their builds are part of a project asking them to “explore, design and build a 3D printed speaker, around readily available electronics and components”.

Bloomberg’s CodeCon Finals, held this year on Friday, January 26, 2018, stands out among coding competitions.

The company will open a tech studio for “engineers and developers to collocate with Africa’s Talking for 12-18 months…to build new products and companies,”

From Nairobi to Cameroon this article features some of the continent’s best space to launch a new startup.

Scheduled for July 18–20, 2018, the build up to the Ghana Tech Summit is in full swing. “This summit is necessary because Ghana has a ton to teach the “developed” world when it comes to disruptive technologies,” said co-host, Terry Oppong, a strategic adviser for companies breaking-through and emerging in the African market.