Category : ECONOMY

There appear to be divergent views by stakeholders in the power sector on how the incoming administration of Maj-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari should handle the privatisation...

Wildlife rangers, garbage collectors, doctors and more…you will be surprised where danger lurks. Boda boda operator (Photo: Greg2600)  WORK-related deaths and injuries are commonplace the...

South Sudanese government said its economy needed urgent diversification to wean it from depending on oil in long term response to the economic crisis, urging...

Depending on which statistics you read, up to 75% of Egypt’s workforce is employed in the SME sector, making it a crucial part of the...

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), China’s biggest lender by assets, said on Wednesday it had signed an infrastructure agreement worth $2 billion with...

  Auto major Tata MotorsBSE -1.87 % today launched six models from its ‘Prima’ range of heavy commercial vehicles in Kenya. The launch of these...

Introducing the April 2015 IMF Regional Economic Outlook: Sub-Saharan Africa, Ms. Antoinette Sayeh, Director of the IMF’s African Department commented today: “Sub-Saharan Africa’s economy is set...

Prime Minister Habib Essid and President of the Korea International Co-operation Agency (KOICA) Kim Young-mok discussed at a meeting Monday in Kasbah ways to strengthen...

Ghana is yet to reap the benefits of an oil industry because authorities were hasty in planning the structure of the multi-billion dollar industry, Vice...

Delegates from 109 Asian and African countries will discuss new opportunity onpragmatic economic and trade cooperation while commemorating the 60th anniversary of theBandung conference. The...

Bank of Africa Ghana Limited has held its 15th Annual General Meeting at Movenpick Hotel in Accra. The meeting was chaired by Stephan Ata, Chairman...

    JOHANNESBURG – Brand-new minibuses line on both sides in a spacious and tidy workshop of a vehicle plant in Springs, a small town...

Nigeria’s peaceful election removed one key risk from the country’s ambition to boost its oil production, but it still faces major challenges. The state-run Nigerian...

The visiting Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi held talks on Tuesday with Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn at the presidential palace in Addis Ababa where they...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, Mar 22 – Across Africa, where many nations show high economic growth rates but with little benefit to their populations, the notion...

The Maputo Port Development Company, MPDC, the consortium which holds the lease on operating the port of Maputo, Mozambique, and in which Dubai’s DP World...

Economy – overview: Ethiopia’s economy is based on agriculture but the government is pushing to diversify into manufacturing, textiles, and energy generation.. Coffee is a...

Egypt’s president claimed broad support from the international community for his vision of the future on Sunday, in a boisterous speech to an investor conference...

DP World wants to forge ahead with more investments despite a legal battle to keep hold of its concession to run Djibouti’s container terminal, above....

Flags of German engineering conglomerate Siemens AG flutter before the annual shareholder meeting in Munich in this Jan. 23, 2013 file photo. (AP / Matthias...