Uber Expands in Africa With Robust Competition
Uber is celebrating its impending launch in Accra, Ghana, by providing free rides from June 9 at 12:00 to midnight, June 12. Ghanaians can...
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...
Digital Money Update
Orange S.A. and Ecobank Group launched a bank-to-wallet money transfer service linked to Orange Money in Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea Conakry and Niger. The service,...
12 Takeways From PwC Africa’s Retail And Consumer Goods Study
As Africa has risen to prominence as an investment destination over the past several years, the role of retail and consumer goods has taken...
Driving STEM-based Development In Africa
More than 800 scientific and industry thought-leaders, political leaders and young scientists came together from March 8-10 in Dakar, Senegal, to chart a new...
Hannover Fair: Meet Industrial Technology Partners Face to Face
African companies wishing to meet U.S. suppliers and business partners in the industrial technology sector without traveling to the United States can do so...
AU Pushes Forward With African Passport Plan
The African Union is at last on its way to introducing an African passport to facilitate the movement of people and goods across the...
The World’s Black Billionaires
AfricaStrictlyBusiness.com has identified 12 billionaires who are African or of African descent, using data obtained from the 2016 Forbes magazine list of the world’s...
Harvard’s Africa Business Club Ponders Homegrown Models for the Continent’s Prosperity
The Africa Business Club, a student club at Harvard Business School, is set to host its 18th annual Africa Business Conference on campus from...
2016 Outlook for Africa’s Payment Industry
Mobile payments have taken the African continent by storm and their user base continues to grow exponentially as more people use their mobile devices...