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SMALL and medium businesses in East Africa should be looking at ways to maximise their efficiency and improve debt management…
THE African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $75 million financial package comprising $50 million line of credit (LoC) and…
AMIDST a continued push by the government to expand housing stock and road networks, Gabon is building a number of…
EMBATTLED Ugandan farmers fighting threats and land grabbing by Bidco have praised a draft report by UN investigators that calls…
KENYA’S economy is expected to grow by 5.9 percent in 2016, the World Bank said early November, unchanged from an…
IN this election Ghana is at a crossroads. The current NDC government is throwing away the economic credibility of the…
THE African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $600 million loan for Nigeria to help Africa’s largest economy plug its…
THE Nigerian government is targeting $5bn in mining investments over the next 10 years under a new industry roadmap, as…
THE rise of China as a global economic power has transformed Africa. The most convincing evidence of this is in…
ZIMBABWE has cleared its 15-year-old financial arrears with the IMF, a first step towards a new IMF loan programme for…
AFRICA’S economic growth is expected to dip this year before rebounding in 2017 to remain the world’s second fastest growing…
GROWTH in sub-Saharan Africa is set to slow to its lowest level in more than two decades, the IMF said…
LEADERS of African Union (AU) member countries will meet with experts in Lomé on October 15 to map out a…
DESPITE the depressed global economic environment, foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to Africa are expected to rise in 2016. The…
WITH global and regional capital continuing to flow into West African real estate, investors are starting to diversify their funds…
WITH Chinese conductors at the helm, a fleet of new trains has begun plying a new route from the Ethiopian…
A POTENTIAL increase in minimum capital requirements for Nigeria’s insurers, currently under discussion, could have significant consequences for the domestic…
STRONGER performance in the manufacturing industry helped keep South Africa’s economy out of a recession, and has led to a…
AFRICA remains one of the world’s growth opportunities for private equity investors, even though the market has already surged dramatically…
THE European Parliament approved has an agreement granting duty-free access to the EU for products from Namibia, Mozambique, Botswana, Swaziland…