Category : BUSINESS

By STEPHANIE HANSON Microfinance is widely known for the incredible speed with which it has scaled to reach hundreds of millions of people, and the...

Activists have praised the U.S. government’s decision to remove Gambia from a trade agreement in response to human rights abuses, including a law signed in...

Bloomberg Cosmo City, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa and a stronghold of the continent’s growing middle class. LONDON (MarketWatch) — If a financial adviser...

By : Katrina Manson @ FT Tanzania has become the third east African country in as many months to discover the size of its economy...

A group of 40 diplomatic envoys from Africa has travelled south to Guangdong province, China’s manufacturing base. They have met local government officials and heads...

Farmers in Rwamagana till land. Rwanda’s digital land administration has helped solve many land problems. (File)  African countries need to improve land tenure in order...

The World Bank announced today that economic growth estimates in the three countries most affected by the Ebola crisis have been revised sharply downward with...

Ghana, a policy research and social enterprise advocacy group, has called on government to implement agricultural programmes with a gender eye to curb the inherent...

In this guest post for HumanIPO, Alex Salter, CEO of SamKnows urges African nations should leverage the lessons already learned by other global telecom regulators...

  By MWANIKI WAHOME More by this Author African governments are working towards establishing an association of regional co-operative banks that will represent the continent’s...

                            Mobile operator MTN has become the latest entity to object to...

  This is a question that first appeared on Quora: As an investor, what are the most important items that a startup must have for you...

Africa’s richest woman Isabel Dos Santos has reportedly made a $1.5 billion bid for Portugal Telecom (PT) SGPS SA, a company that owns a 25.7%...

The fight against Ebola no longer lies with African governments alone, the private sector has to step up and join the battle. AFDB’s president Dr...

  Oil prices fell Monday, hit by a strengthening dollar as dealers digested global manufacturing data for clues about demand growth, analysts said. Brent North...

Woolworths has opened its ninth store in Namibia, the retailer said on Wednesday. “This new store in Windhoek is another example of our ongoing commitment...

When Cadbury Kenya and Eveready East Africa earlier this month announced that they were closing shop and laying off a total of 400 employees, few...

One of the most obvious ways of adding value to agricultural production is by processing that output within Africa. Pineapples can be canned for export...

Egyptian Saudi Insurance House and Faisal Islamic Bank are planning to contribute in Salama Family Takaful Company (Life Insurance) in Egypt in which SALAMA –...