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SOUTH African organisations reported a considerably higher frequency in the incidence of economic crime in comparison to their African and…
TO meet the government’s 2020 deadline for reaching emerging economy status, Côte d’Ivoire is rolling out a raft of ambitious…
AFRICAN Development Bank (AfDB) president, Akinwumi Adesina, has outlined the Bank’s new development priorities and underscored the importance of partnerships…
A late January announcement from the Bank of Ghana (BoG) that benchmark interest rates would remain unchanged signalled positive news…
INCREASING urbanisation and rising levels of disposable income should fuel growth in Kenya’s retail sector in 2016 and beyond, as…
DEMAND for speciality African coffee beans is surging, reflecting the rising popularity of single-origin, high quality beans. Specialty coffee now…
ETHIOPIA has set an ambitious coffee export target for the 2015/16 season (October-September) as it seeks to boost earnings from…
GHANA’S cocoa sector appears to be on track for a recovery following the precipitous slump in outturn in the 2014/15…
MALAIK, a global portal for high impact investing in African businesses, is calling applications from African entrepreneurs with impact focused…
THE IMF says it is ready to help sub-Saharan Africa’s oil exporters cope with plunging crude prices and growing fiscal…
IN LINE with global trends, 2015 was a challenging year for African capital markets in the wake of market volatility…
YEARS of rapid economic growth across sub-Saharan Africa fuelled hopes of a prosperous new era. To many, the continent was…
Having weathered a torrid 2015, sub-Saharan Africa faces another trying year financially. Analyst Andrew Manners considers who will be the…
CONSUMER spending by a fast-growing middle class is as important a growth driver for Africa as mineral and resource demand,…
THERE is no doubt that Africa is on the up-and-up. According to Louise Robinson, managing director at Database 360, Africa…
RATINGS agency Standard & Poor’s has reiterated that Nigeria will have to devalue its currency, saying it expected this to…