How One YALI Participant Is Changing Lives in Cape Verde
Alfredo de Pina is doing his best to improve conditions for young adults and the poor in his native Cape Verde.
Pina is a founding...
World Bank: Economic Impact of Ebola 2014
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa could reverse years of economic gains in the region. Thousands of lives been lost since January 2014, closed...
The Hope of a Direct West-Central Africa Sea Link
Nigeria’s Export-Import Bank is pressing forward with its campaign to recruit investors for a dedicated, regionally owned sea link to stimulate and facilitate trade...
The US Steps Up Its Economic Game in Africa
One day after President Barack Obama announced a groundbreaking initiative to double access to power in sub-Saharan Africa, he launched Trade Africa, a partnership...
Billionaires Building Capacity
As the African Grantmakers Affinity Group (AGAG)'s annual conference gets under way in New York City this week, AfricaStrictlyBusiness.com takes a look at how...
Expanding M-Commerce; Target: Women
Discussions about creating an enabling environment to take mobile commerce to the next level in Africa typically revolve around regulation, standards and the technology...
Five Challenges Of Doing Business in Africa
In a move to diversify their supply chain around the world, U.S. apparel and footwear companies, including manufacturers and retailers, increasingly are looking to...
Educators, Innovators To Meet in Nigeria for AAI’s “State of Education in Africa” Conference
African and U.S. educators and education innovators will gather in Lagos, Nigeria, on Sept. 2 for the Africa-America Institute’s Second Annual State of Education...
Accelerating Local Pharmaceutical Production
Ethiopia is offering tax-free loans for up to five years, along with 100 percent exemption on customs duty for imports on capital goods, to...
Missed Opportunity At U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit
The United States missed an opportunity to deepen its trade relations with Africa at this week’s U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, D.C., a leading...
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Sino-Africa Relations: An Elder’s View
I am sick and tired of being sick and tired of complaints that China is taking advantage of Africans even as it provides money...
