Celebration at the Hotel de Ville forefront📸Guillaume Bontemps/ Ville de Paris The opening of Paris Plages (Paris on the beach) on July 06, 2024 marked the official start of the celebrations in Paris. From the Games Terrace to the 16 festive district sites, here’s a look at the venues that will be spreading joy across the city. This summer, the forecourt of the HĂ´tel de Ville will come alive with 45 days of free festivities. The first highlight: 14 July, celebrated with a concert by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the setting for the Olympic flame, which will spend…
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Creator of her eponymous brand, Hawa SangarĂ© will be one of the torchbearers for the 2024 Paris OlympicsJosĂ©phine Brueder/Ville de Paris Artists, athletes, firefighters, members of associations. They all share one thing in common – this summer, they will pass the Olympic and Paralympic flame through the streets of Paris. We introduce you to these Parisians with extraordinary gravitas. Diaby Diako. World champion in freestyle roller skating, Diaby is a prodigy on wheels. When he’s not winning new titles, he shares his passion with the members of the Paris Skate Culture club (18th arrondissement). Armel Agbobli. Armel is a…
Approximately 50 newsstands will be transformed into official tourist information points 📸 JosĂ©phine Brueder/ Ville de Paris In this experiment by the Parisian Tourist Office, approximately 50 newsstands will become official tourist information points: an initiative designed to offer improved services to visitors while supporting merchants facing declining press sales. Every day, kiosk owners answer questions from tourists in the capital. This summer, around fifty of them will become official information points, properly trained to provide tourists and passers-by with better information. Before, during and after the Games, they will play a central role in welcoming and informing tourists,…
Match pour le quart de final France / USA To bring the excitement of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games closer to Parisians and visitors, Paris has developed festive sites in each of its districts. These celebration zones – where the competitions will be broadcast – include iconic sites, known as “totemic” sites, which will embody the festive atmosphere while promoting the city’s core values of solidarity, equality and respect for the environment. Discover some of them in the heart of the capital. A – La Fabrique de la SolidaritĂ© – 8 rue de la Banque, 75002 Paris La Fabrique de…
📸 Jean-Baptiste Gurliat/Ville de Paris In less than two weeks before the Opening Ceremony on July 26, 2024), the passage of the Olympic flame through Paris on 14 and 15 July will mark the start of the celebrations. Its route will be packed with events and highlights. After crossing an ocean, climbing mountains and meeting countless extraordinary people, the world’s most famous torch will finally arrive in Paris. The journey begins on 14 July, a significant date as it coincides with Bastille Day, from the iconic Champs-ÉlysĂ©es roundabout. Route of the Paris torch relay 📸 Paris 2024 / Ville de…
Presenting Tyms TAutomate for the first time at KPMG Nigeria, recently: (M): Chineye Ochem (Co-founder & COO at Tyms) Built for CFOs, accountants, bookkeepers and business owners, Tyms® is an incredible AI-powered finance and accounting automation software that makes it possible for small businesses and startup finance teams to automate their entire business financial accounting processes – from bookkeeping, financial statements preparation, advanced inventory, payables, receivables, budgeting, bank sync and reconciliation. Describing the product capabilities in detail, Chineye Ochem (Co-founder & COO at Tyms) says: We built Tyms TAutomate specifically for Accounting firms and Accountants who manage the books of…
Founders at Earlybird AI: Claudine Adeyemi-Adams FIEP (CEO); and Boris Bambo (CTO) Earlybird AI, a B2B startup on a mission to transform employment support for unemployed and low-paid workers, using its voice-first AI software, has closed its pre-seed round of $800,000. Founders Claudine Adeyemi-Adams (CEO) and Boris Bambo (CTO) are excited that people struggling to find work or keep a stable job can confidently speak with the Earlybird AI assistant, sharing information about their personal and professional lives, and having their submissions analysed for quick feedback on issues preventing them from accessing or retaining a job. According to Adeyemi, the…
🎥 TGI Group The Tropical General Investments (TGI) Group recently announced that its West African Soy Industries Limited (WASIL), in collaboration with the USAID-funded Global Shea Alliance (GSA), has donated five 100-ton warehouses to women cooperatives in five communities across Kwara State: Alapa, Babanla, Fanagu, Gbugbu, and Patigi.WASIL also supplied pots for cooking and drying shea nuts before storage, thereby vastly improving the storage conditions for the nuts and ensuring stable, high-quality finished products. The ultimate goal is to expand income opportunities for women shea nut collectors in the five communities, and strengthen the foundation for inclusive agricultural development while…
(L-R): Peter N and Audrey Djiya (co-Founders, Zimi) Audrey Djiya and Peter N (co-Founders, Zimi) are doing something remarkable – they are bringing AmazonPrime-like fulfillment to African exporters, making it easy, fast, and cheap for these businesses to sell internationally.Explaining how this works, Audrey says: Across the continent, millions of businesses export $600 billion worth of goods every year. This is set to surpass $1 trillion by 2035.But these businesses have no affordable way to sell globally.Shipping can cost more than 100% of the value of an order.That just doesn’t make sense to us, which is why we’re building Zimi.By…
Edidiong Uwemakpan (Vice-President, Moniepoint), Dr. Doris Uzoka-Anite (Honourable Minister, Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment) Edidiong Uwemakpan (Vice-President at African digital fintech, Moniepoint) has announced the launch of the 2024 Moniepoint Informal Economy Report – Nigeria’s first report on the country’s Informal Economy. Achieved in partnership with the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), the publication was unveiled by Dr. Doris Uzoka-Anite (Honourable Minister, Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment). Referring to the millions of businesses in Nigeria, many of them operating in the informal economy, Edidiong says: They might look small individually, but together,…