Here’s your Daily Brief for August 3rd: US Africa Trade on Exhibition at 8th Annual AGOA Forum (via Africa Business Source) – A nice overview of this weeks AGOA forum. Makes the good point that the issue needing MOST focus is no longer market access, but rather building up the competitiveness of African Countries by [...]

There’s a new organization that has really caught my attention lately: ColaLife. Simon Barry is the mind behind the project designed to leverage the preexisting distribution networks of Coca-Cola (previously mentioned here) to deliver what he’s calling “aidpods” – essentially packages filled with medicines ranging from anti-malarial to anti-diarrhetic medicines that seamlessly fit into the [...]