Category : Commerce

Africa has the world’s highest proportion of binge drinkers, even though its large populations of Muslims and evangelical Christians generally abstain from alcohol. As incomes...

BARCELONA, Spain, Mar 3 – Visa Inc, the global leader in payments, and Bharti Airtel, a leading telecommunications services provider with operations in 20 countries...

Members of the cooperative of women in Ethiopia whose cactus pear marmalade will soon reach Italian tables. Photo: FAO/Filippo Brasesco  Next time you feel like...

Women in Abobodoumé, Côte d’Ivoire, huddle around the FAO-Thiaroye Processing Technique (FTT-Thiaroye) to smoke fish. Photo: FAO  A newly developed fish drying technology is improving...

The Water and Sanitation Corporation Ltd. (WASAC) in Rwanda, Africa, has awarded a contract to Culligan® International, a global innovator of advanced water treatment solutions,...

 By Dan Mitchell Several months ago, I put forth a two-question challenge for our left-wing friends. Since they relentlessly insist that we can have bigger...

Zambia Sugar’s sweet Irish tax deal A Zambian food company pays almost no tax in poverty-stricken Africa, opting instead to route its profits through Dublin....

Ghanaians are being offered yet another innovative and convenient banking service through Societe Generale Ghana’s new insurance partnership with Allianz Insurance Company Limited, to provide...

There are neither taxes nor tariffs on any commodities exported by Egypt to other countries, the Egyptian Finance Ministry affirmed in a statement on Wednesday....

                By Christine Muchira/Release Two East Africans are among the top seven finalists in last year’s young entrepreneurs...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) and MasterCard announced a broad collaboration that aims to expand financial inclusion across the African continent. The collaboration seeks to...

BY: JOSEPH CHIN Yinson Holdings Bhd’s  consortium has secured a US$2.54bil (RM9.16bil) contract to provide a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit to eni...

Penwell Dlamini Jean Bovyat, who is French, took part in a march organised by the African Diaspora Forum and the police in Yeoville, Johannesburg, yesterday...

  Several foreign-owned shops in Soweto were abandoned on Saturday following a week of violence and looting. Packets littered the streets, ransacked shops were empty,...

  Swiss food giant Nestle plans to invest about 1 billion Egyptian pounds ($137.93 million) in Egypt in the next few years and believes economic...

By Boby Michael All eyes on Draghi with the ECB widely expected to expand its bond buying program in the upcoming policy review.(Reuters) The European...

Torrential rains in Mozambique, falling non-stop since December, continue to cause extensive damage to the country and its economy. The national rail company reports that...

  Jennifer Ehidiamen In an effort to address Africa’s growing unemployment, Nigerian philanthropist Tony Elumelu is spending $100 million of his own money to kick-star...

By Tolani Awere Nigeria may miss its cocoa output target of 500,000 metric tons in the 2014-15 season after an outbreak of fungal blackpod disease...

Chinese relations with Africa are set to grow next year, with both sides considering upgradinga ministerial-level forum to a leadership summit, a senior Foreign Ministry...