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Wandia Gichuru Mwanawanjuguna Wed, 12/03/2025 – 5:24 pm Wandia Gichuru is the co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Kenya’s Vivo Fashion Group and the e-commerce marketplace ShopZetu. In January, Gichuru, who is 57 years old, was featured by Forbes magazine in the inaugural ‘50-over-50: Global’ list meant to celebrate women across the globe with significant contributions across various sectors. Her contribution to the fashion industry gained her a spot, a business that she ventured into in 2011 as just a shop in Nairobi run by two people. Her impact extends to the e-commerce sector with Shop Zetu , an award-winning marketplace for over 300 local brands. The government has also honoured her contributions to the nation’s economic development, awarding her the Order of the Grand Warrior (OGW) of Kenya in December 2021. Earlier in her entrepreneurial journey, she was named the Top Woman CEO at the 2018/19 KPMG and Nation Media Top 100 Mid-Size companies awards and received a Distinguished Alumni Award for Leadership & Ingenuity from Citigroup in 2017. Her brand, Vivo, was also named the Kenyan Fashion Brand of the Year at the Kenya Fashion Awards in both 2016 and 2017. She told Forbes that she is committed to using her business to create financial opportunities for others, and therefore 100 per cent of Vivo’s designing and manufacturing is done in Kenya

The Vocational Education and Training Authority (VETA) Moshi has begun its journey to phase out the use of dirty energy and adopt clean energy solutions

Pemba Ward in Mvomero District, Morogoro, is emerging as a model for linking clean cooking energy and carbon trading to community development and forest conservation

The adoption highlights the versatility of natural gas as a clean cooking solution not only for domestic consumers but also for commercial kitchens

The two areas have been identified as having the lowest levels of clean cooking energy use in both public and private institutions in Kilimanjaro Region

In one small step for robot-kind — thousands of them, really — humanoid robots ran alongside actual humans in a half-marathon in the Chinese capital.

Brad Smith, the Vice Chair and President of Microsoft, on Thursday announced that Microsoft will be investing an additional $296.81 million by the end of 2027 to expand its cloud and Artificial Intelligence, or AI, infrastructure in South Africa, to meet the growing demand for the tech company’s Azure services in the region.

Thousands of people gathered to attend the burial of Namibia’s founding president, Sam Nujoma, who died earlier this month at age 95. Nujoma was officially laid to rest at the Heroes’ Acre memorial outside the capital, Windhoek, on Saturday. Reporter Tracy Tafirenyika attended the event and has more.

VOA Africa 54 remembers United Nations reporter Lisa Schlein, who passed away earlier this week at age 89. A regular contributor to the Voice of America for over three decades, Schlein reported on a variety of topics from the UN’s Geneva Office including humanitarian efforts, global conflicts, and international justice.

Thousands of workers are facing an unsettling reality heading into 2025. After years of working from the comfort of home, they’re being told it’s time to return to the office full-time for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic.