Business
May 11,
2017
Growing youth unemployment remains a socio-economic challenge in Africa. Several initiatives, including foreign development aid programmes, are being deployed to address this. Many come with noble intentions. But they are…
May 08,
2017
Africa's biggest gold miner AngloGold Ashanti reported a 16 percent drop in first-quarter profit on Monday following a decline in South African production, sending its shares down nearly 5 percent.…
Apr 25,
2017
The role of “white monopoly capital” in post-apartheid South Africa has been in the news lately. In the South African context, it can be understood as the white population’s extensive…
Apr 23,
2017
Poor packaging in Ghana is one of the main reasons for the failure of locally manufactured food products to establish themselves in the market and compete favourably with imported ones.…
Apr 20,
2017
Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), says billionaire businessman, Aliko Dangote may become the largest exporter of rice in the world by 2021. Speaking at the Mo…
Apr 20,
2017
Botswana is the most attractive economy for investments flowing into the African continent, according to the latest Africa Investment Index 2016 by Quantum Global’s independent research arm, Quantum Global Research…
Mar 27,
2017
The Ministry of Mines and Mineral Resources in Sierra Leone has announced an offer of sale of the 709.48-carat diamond found last week by a pastor in Sierra Leone's eastern…
Mar 27,
2017
PTV Group announces the expansion of its software business on the African continent with its own office. The signs for this were set in 2016 with the successful takeover of…
Mar 22,
2017
Mohammed Dewji, Group CEO of MeTL (Mohammed Entreprise Tanzania Limited) takes home the prestigious CEO OF THE YEAR award and Anta Babacar Ngom Bathily of Sedima wins the award for…
Mar 22,
2017
The hijacking of an oil tanker on its way to Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, has sparked international attention. For almost five years nothing was heard from the Somali pirates. International naval…
Mar 15,
2017
As part of our just released ‘South Africa 2017 Wealth Report’, we rated the 10 greatest business men and woman in SA history. Criteria for ratings included:• Impact on South…
Mar 13,
2017
Aliko Dangote is now a coal miner as Tanzania has offered his Dangote Cement Company in the southeastern town of Mtwara, land to mine coal for its operations. Tanzania’s Ministry…
Mar 10,
2017
Hundreds of South African taxi drivers on Friday blocked roads to Johannesburg airport, holding up thousands of travellers and causing traffic chaos in a protest against the app-based taxi service…
Mar 09,
2017
The Ghana Investment Promotion Council (GIPC) has disclosed that, there is high thirst on the part of investors around the world to invest in the Ghanaian economy. According to the…
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