Kenya Eyes U.S. Shoe Market Under Renewed AGOA
Kenyan officials are speculating that their country, with its abundance of skins and hides, could produce shoes for the U.S. market under quota-free and...
Mark Essien On Hotels.ng’s Latest Round of Funding, Expansion Plans
E-commerce site Hotels.ng, Nigeria’s largest hotel booking website, has been growing fast. It already has built a hotel network to cover 7,000-plus hotels in...
Quest for Cooperation in Air Transport
Cooperation and connectivity will be the main themes of the 47th General Meeting of the African Airlines Association (AFRAA), to be hosted November 8-10...
Kenya, Rwanda Vie to Become East Africa’s Medical Tourism Hub
A diverse set of forces, including favorable economic factors, a supportive regulatory environment, and a high disease burden, will place Kenya and Rwanda among...
Top Five Trends in the Changing Landscape of African Infrastructure Financing
Since 2009, infrastructure financing to Africa has seen unprecedented growth, thanks largely to Chinese financing, official development financing, private participation in infrastructure (PPI) investments,...
Peter Greenberg on Promoting Tourism in Africa
At the Africa Travel Association’s 39th Annual Congress, held in Uganda in November 2014, Peter S. Greenberg, multi Emmy-winning travel editor at CBS News...
Uganda: Spurred Into Tourism Action
A ground-breaking report showing a lack of government leadership in exploiting Uganda’s tourism potential spurred into action the country’s young Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife...
World’s Fastest Growth in Mobile Usage Rates Projected for Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa’s mobile market presents significant opportunities for telecommunication companies, device and module vendors, and application providers. With its telecommunications market maturing, and mobile...
The Business of Tourism in Africa
The business of tourism in Africa takes center stage from November 11 to 16 in Kampala, Uganda, when more than 500 industry professionals and...
Physicians: Africa’s Ill-Afforded Export
The U.S. Census Bureau reports that the number of African-born immigrants in the United States has roughly doubled each decade since 1970, with the...
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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...
