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Founder of the Alibaba Group, Jack Ma, gave their encouragement to the participants at the 2017 Jumpstarter Grand Finale in Hong Kong, Tuesday. Jumpstarter Grand Finale is a pitching event for start-up companies in Hong Kong, which offers the best teams an opportunity to kick start their business with an investment of up to US $3 million.
Kenya is home to some of the world's best runners but they all wear foreign branded shoes. Local sportswear company - Enda, a swahili word meaning 'Go' - is working to change that by building the first Kenyan-made running shoe. Sonia Legg reports
The Kenyan slums can finally break out of the poverty cycle thanks to the local community cash. Elizabeth shows off her upgraded business, improved by the 'lindi-pesa'.
A group of athletes who will compete in the Rio Olympic Games as the refugee Olympic team are hitting the roads to train in Kenya's Rift Valley ahead of the August Games. Nathan Frandino reports.
For entrepreneur Askah Nyakwara, processing bananas into snacks could become big business - with a little more help from the government in ironing out the wrinkles that small companies face in Kenya. David Pollard reports.
US President Barack Obama praises African economic growth in a speech in the Kenyan capital on Saturday. Julie Noce reports.