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The MTN Group has supported the African Union (AU)’s vaccination programme with $25m. This is expected to secure up to seven million doses of the...

  IN BRIEF The central bank of Kenya has announced that it will be adopting Bitcoin to fight financial uncertainties facing its country. Kenya also...

Hip hop artist Akon has launched yet another business endeavour on the African continent. This time the impressive undertaking is in the mining industry in...

Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was poised to become the first African and first woman to lead the embattled World Trade Organization, after a South Korean rival...

JOHANNESBURG – Players in the Black-owned businesses space in South Africa, on top of the tremendous challenges they have faced since the start of the...

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) released fourth-quarter financial results after markets closed Tuesday. The e-commerce empire said that it had $14.09 in earnings per share (EPS)...

In 2011, the United Nations Environment Programme proposed the creation of a $1bn fund to repair the damage done by decades of oil spills in...

Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Limited (CABGOC) – Chevron’s wholly owned subsidiary in Angola – has awarded Subsea 7 a substantial contract for the Sanha Lean...

This coronavirus has upended virtually every aspect of life, in turn triggering a bizarre domino effect across corporate America. Many businesses were shut down for...

The ultimate resource in economic development is people. This is because it is people that have the ability to develop any economy. Mastercard recently acquired...

African superpower Nigeria has signed an agreement which aims to increase trade between African countries. This leaves Eritrea as the only African country not to...

The London-based ICBC Standard Bank is under threat of another investigation Corbis The Serious Fraud Office has been asked to reopen its controversial “plea deal”...

Vedanta Zinc International (VZI) is a grouping of zinc assets located in South Africa and Namibia, owned by the sixth-largest diversified resources company in the...

An international analyst, Matthew Page has stated that following the recent restructuring of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the minister of petroleum and minister of...

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has ruled out any plans to suspend the implementation of the ECOWAS Common External Tariffs (CET). Chief Revenue Officer of...

Libya: $166-million UN-backed humanitarian appeal barely 1 per cent funded Humanitarian food assistance at the Zintan main food warehouse in the Nafusa Mountains, Libya. Photo:...

Mr Thomas Konditi, President and CEO of General Electric’s Transportation. General Electric has signed an agreement with Simba Corporation as the authorised distributor for its...

Agriculture: Creation of U.S.-Algeria Joint Venture  A Memorandum of Understanding on the creation of the first Algeria-U.S. agriculture joint venture was signed Sunday in Algiers...

The second African Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) summit has opened in Accra, with a call on entrepreneurs to develop attitudinal change, sense of...

Western Union regional boss Richard Malcolm at a past event. PHOTO | SALATON NJAU | NATION MEDIA GROUP. In Summary Mr Malcolm said Western Union...