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SITTING in a bank of small countries on the west coast of Africa, Sierra Leone is rich with natural resources.…
ALIBABA, the Chinese e-commerce conglomerate, has extended its international trade platform to a second African state, providing Ethiopia with electronic…
A US jury on Monday cleared a lead salesman for a Lebanese shipbuilding company of charges that he helped to…
NIGERIAN President Muhammadu Buhari has clarified that there was no fixed date to reopen the country’s closed land borders. A…
THE Chinese government has released phase one of funding for a substantial road construction project in Ghana as part of…
UGANDA has resubmitted a loan request to China for the 271km Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) project linking its capital, Kampala,…
WHILE foreign direct investment (FDI) is falling in other global markets, it is on the rise in Africa, with nearly…
SOUTH AFRICA’S largest non-grocery retailer Pepkor has thrown in the towel in the Zimbabwe market after struggling to trade amid…
TANZANIAN President John Magufuli on Sunday ordered the Ministry of Finance and Planning to ensure that 187 public agencies remitted…
IT’S a case of bribes, kickbacks, lies and money laundering in Mozambique, a US prosecutor told a jury in Brooklyn…
AS younger business travellers and entrepreneurs increasingly look to combine business and leisure travel, Tanzania is moving to ensure the…
THE Coca-Cola Company’s global CEO and chairman, James Quincey, culminated a tour in Africa last week. The visit is described…
INVEST Africa, the UK-based leading business and investment platform, will be leading a high-level delegation of investors and businesses to…
KEY representatives from more than eight countries in Africa gathered at a workshop organised by Vodacom Tanzania to look into…
A CHINESE-backed international consortium has agreed a $14bn deal to build a 650km Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) and a deepwater…
THE International Trade Union Congress (ITUC-Africa) has demanded the repatriation of Africa’s stolen wealth stashed in developed economies. The President…
GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel has told an Africa investment summit in Berlin that the continent has an ‘important role,’ offering…
AFRICAN countries should hasten the adoption of yuan as a reserve currency amid increased bilateral trade with China, a Kenyan…
CHINA accused Zimbabwe on Tuesday of understating its financial help to the southern African nation, after budget figures released last…
DUBAI’S aggregate non-oil trade with African nations between 2011 and the end of this year will reach Dh1 trillion ($272bn),…