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...
SME funding—Money transfers—Digital payments—Social ventures—Dairy investment—Urban development
SME funding
The International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group, and Ecobank Transnational Incorporated, parent company of the Ecobank Group and...
Ten Diaspora African Techpreneurs in the US
The launch of Apple Watch, Apple Inc.’s smart watch, appears to have heightened the angst over the seeming absence of Blacks as entrepreneurs and...
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,...
Nigeria Election Takeaways
Renaissance Capital, a leading emerging and frontier markets investment bank with operations in Russia, Eastern Europe, the Middlease, Asia and Africa, called Nigeria's March...
President Obama Will Score One for Entrepreneurs When He Goes to Kenya in July
The White House announced today that President Obama will travel to Kenya in July to hold bilateral meetings and participate in the Global Entrepreneurship...
The Nigerian Stock Exchange and MSCI Will Develop Joint Indexes
The Nigerian Stock Exchange, Africa’s largest by volume traded, and MSCI Inc., a provider of investment decision support tools to asset managers, banks, hedge...
Sanitation/Hygiene—U.S. Business Partnerships—Bilateral Cooperation—Oil & Gas PPPs—Manufacturing—Retail/Industrial Development
Sanitation/Hygiene
Ghana loses about US$232 million annually in productivity because of poor sanitation and hygiene services, according to the World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Program....
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...
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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...
