NELLY MURUNGI Issued on: 27 MARCH 2020 Brigitha Faustin Brigitha Faustin is the managing director of OBRI Tanzania, a company that manufactures edible oils. “As I am operating in the agri-food space, empty shelves can be frightening but empty fields would be devastating. The pandemic has brought fear to most of us. We depend on
NELLY MURUNGI Issued on: 27 MARCH 2020 Manuel Koser Manuel Koser is the co-founder and managing director of Silvertree Holdings, a South African-based investment firm that focuses on growing early and mid-stage companies. “This has been a crazy week in the world. To many of us it felt like a whole year in just a week.
NELLY MURUNGI Issued on: 27 MARCH 2020 Jonas Schwarz Lausten Jonas Schwarz Lausten is the co-owner of Nordic Hotels, a collection of boutique hotels in Nigeria. “It’s clear that Covid-19 has an impact on the hospitality and travel industry, both locally in Nigeria and internationally. The financial impact can easily be characterised as devastating. “With
NELLY MURUNGI Issued on: 27 MARCH 2020 Feleg Tsegaye Feleg Tsegaye is the founder and president of Deliver Addis, an Ethiopian company that offers online food delivery services in partnership with restaurants. “A number of the restaurants we work with have almost completely stopped receiving walk-in customers, which majorly impacted their businesses. We’ve already seen