Angst Over Talent
PricewaterhouseCoopers’s 16th Annual Global CEO Survey is a sobering comment on the availability of skills at a time when businesses desperately need to create...
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Kenya - Smart Cities
Kenya broke ground in Phase One of a $10 billion smart city some 60 kilometers southeast of Nairobi, moving the country...
Air Cargo Capacity Builds
Air freight capacity is building rapidly on Africa routes, especially in the Middle East and Asia lanes. While global air cargo fell 1.5 percent...
Shipping: Spotlight On Inefficiencies
Ports, logistics and supply chain officials and private sector executives met in Accra, Ghana, in March to address the continent’s most pressing shipping issues:...
Somalia Resumes Business
Somalia officially began exporting livestock from the main port in it’s capital, Mogadishu, for the first time in 22 years, when on March 8...
Logistics: A High-Growth Industry
Logistics is becoming an important growth industry in Africa with potentially lucrative opportunities for logistics providers, despite significant infrastructure challenges.Industry experts say growth in...
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...
India-Southern Africa Trade Agreement
Hoping to counter China’s growing clout in Africa, India is pressing for faster action on a preferential trade agreement with the Southern African Customs...
Infrastructure Fast-Tracked
African heads of state will begin to pool efforts to develop integrated, reliable and efficient networks of transport, energy, telecommunications and shared water resources...
Jobs Outlook
Africa’s employment growth over the next half decade is expected to exceed the global average, according to the International Labor Organization. While the world’s...
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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...
