The Gap in Global Affordable Housing
Rates of urbanization in Africa are the highest in the world. Nigeria, for example, will be one of the world’s five largest markets for...
What’s New In Brief
A roundup of business, trade and economic developments. Topics in this column:
* EAC-EU reach trade agreement
* EAC-Japan economic collaboration
* Paying taxes via mobile money...
EAC-EU–EAC/Japan–Taxes Kenya–Electricity Nigeria–Financial inclusion Nigeria–Agriculture–Entrepreneurship–AGOA
Trade – EAC/EU
Five East African countries — Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi — reached agreement with the European Union to renew a...
Vivienne Yeda on the EADB and Small Businesses
The complaint is all too common: In Africa, well performing small and medium-size businesses cannot obtain credit from commercial lenders in order to expand...
Financing Agriculture: Takeaways From Fin4Ag 2014
Fin4Ag is an annual conference that brings together farmers, financiers, central bank governors, ICT entrepreneurs from African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries and elsewhere...
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Ethiopia’s Toll Road
Ethiopia’s first toll road, the Addis Ababa-Adama expressway, opened for traffic on September 14, cutting the travel time from the capital city...
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...
Tourism Presses Forward, Ebola Notwithstanding
African tourism officials and tour operators are hoping that the number of tourist arrivals in Africa will continue to grow, despite fears over an...
AAI Celebrates 30 Years of Honoring African Achievement
The Africa-America Institute (AAI), a U.S.-based international education and policy organization dedicated to strengthening the human capacity of Africans, will host its 30th Annual...
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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...
