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					<description><![CDATA[She took over 100 Africans to the Caribbean. Now Aisha Maina is quietly reshaping Afri-Caribbean business and diplomacy.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The entrepreneur exporting Tanzania’s agricultural products to Europe</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hadija Jabiri is the founder of GBRI, a Tanzanian agribusiness company that started with vegetables and now exports avocados to Europe and India.]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Charles Antwi-Boahen shares some of the key business lessons he has learned over the past decade.]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Charles Antwi-Boahen is the founder of Kab-Fam, an electronics and home appliance retailer that has grown from humble beginnings to a 16-store chain across Ghana.]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Entrepreneur Deepankar Rustagi saw an opportunity to make the informal retail system more efficient by digitising the flow of consumer goods.]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), one of Africa’s largest and most populous nations, offers untapped export opportunities to firms in neighbouring countries.]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[How Benjamin Fernandes, founder of Nala, survived early challenges to build a global money transfer player.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 12:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Young entrepreneurs in Ghana are building businesses around local rice production.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Sierra Leone: Seeing an opportunity in onion farming</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[In Sierra Leone, a first-of-its-kind farm is helping make the country self-sufficient in onion production.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jaco Maritz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 15:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fastizers, a Nigerian snack food company best known for its cookies, was founded in 2010 by Debby Lawson. She started the business with just 960 naira – about 60 US cents at today’s exchange rate.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 17:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mobolaji Ajayi identified a gap in Nigeria's healthcare market, envisioning a pharmacy that offers both medication and primary care services.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jaco Maritz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2025 17:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nigeria’s difficult economic environment is forcing snack food manufacturer Fastizers to rethink aspects of its operations – from shrinking pack sizes to launching new product lines such as bread.]]></description>
		
		
		
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