Performance and Prospects Economic performance in Africa –
 strate resilience in the face of slow recovery of the global economy, although with broad variation across countries and regions. Growth in sub-Saharan Africa was...
Category : ECONOMY
Oxfam Urges Top Food Brands to Cut Supply-Chain Emissions
                                                        By Megan Rowling           Climate change impacts are expected to push up the price of everyday foods like breakfast cereals, and the world’s biggest...
‘PH farmers endangered species’
MAP: Countries participating in WEF on East Asia 2014 Three heads of state and government will join more than 600 delegates from international organizations, businesses,...
'PH farmers endangered species'
MAP: Countries participating in WEF on East Asia 2014 Three heads of state and government will join more than 600 delegates from international organizations, businesses,...
North Africa Burns Billions on Energy Subsidies
By Tom Stevenson In total, the governments of Egypt, Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia spend more than $45bn on energy subsidies each year – a...
MTN SA, Vodacom Reveal FTTH Plans
South African telco MTN has announced plans to commercially launch a 100Mbps fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband service in its domestic market on 1 June 2014, TechCentral...
Morocco wind farm, Africa’s biggest, starts generating power
Africa’s largest wind farm, at Tarfaya in southwestern Morocco, has started generating electricity and will be capable of meeting the electricity needs of several hundred...
Morocco wind farm, Africa's biggest, starts generating power
Africa’s largest wind farm, at Tarfaya in southwestern Morocco, has started generating electricity and will be capable of meeting the electricity needs of several hundred...
Algeria Hopes To Complete Process Of Accession To WTO By End-2015, Says Trade Minister
Algerian Minister of Trade Mustapha Benbada is hopeful that the country can complete the process of accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) by the...
Iranians abandons Zimbabwe project
Chitungwiza based textile manufacturer, Modzone Enterprises, closed shop in 2012 after its Iranian shareholders stopped investing in the firm as they were not recouping anything...
South Africa Proposes Transferring Half of Farm Land to Workers
By Tshepiso Mokhema South Africa’s Rural Development and Land Reform Ministry has proposed buying half of some farms and splitting the land up among workers,...
South Africa Proposes Transferring Half of Farm Land to Workers
By Tshepiso Mokhema South Africa’s Rural Development and Land Reform Ministry has proposed buying half of some farms and splitting the land up among workers,...
‘Big Data’ comes to Africa
By Sherelle Jacobs From health insurance to banking, African companies and entrepreneurs are harnessing the opportunities of big data CEOs claim it will revolutionise African...
‘Big Data’ comes to Africa
By Sherelle Jacobs From health insurance to banking, African companies and entrepreneurs are harnessing the opportunities of big data CEOs claim it will revolutionise African...
Africa Strives to Rebuild Its Domestic Industries
By Gumisai Mutum Economic diversification to guard against unfavourable commodity prices Just a few decades ago, the African island-nation of Mauritius depended overwhelmingly on growing...
Zambia: Contract Labour in Mines Unsettles MUZ
By Moffat Chazingwa, The Mine-workers Union of Zambia (MUZ) has said mining companies should stop engaging labour...
A retrospect into Nigeria oil scandal and missing $20 billions of dollars
By Jide Adesina A conservative estimate – with 100,000 barrels a day believed to be the minimum amount stolen – lost revenues to the Nigerian...
Africa: Microsoft Participates in EU-Africa Forum Discussion to Advance E-Learning to Rural Africa
BY LILIAN MUTEGI, In the quest to deliver relevant, sustainable and scalable solution so as to promote e-learning in rural Africa through Microsoft’s Africa...
A global view into African economy
By; Skyline of Luanda, Angola: Will Africa be “the next global economies.There is a large and well-equipped children’s playground at the back. Fully air-conditioned, the...
Which African Countries are at Risk from the Current Market Turmoil
Which African Countries are at Risk from the Current Market Turmoil? A few years ago, an analysis of the spillover effects of financial shocks on...