IBM Africa: Business Meets Corporate Responsibility
On her visit to Nigeria in September, IBM President and CEO Virginia "Ginni" Rometty announced that IBM would establish an innovation center in Nigeria...
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Trade – EAC/EU
Five East African countries — Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi — reached agreement with the European Union to renew a...
Foreign Direct Investment in Africa
According to the World Investment Report 2013, released by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Africa's FDI inflows in 2012 were...
Africa Conference At MIT Emphasizes Innovation, Impact and Sustainability
The 2017 Africa Innovate Conference at Massachusetts Institute of Technology puts front and center the contention that a local private sector underpinned by innovation,...
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...
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...
SMEs: Asset or Liability for Banks?
Are small and medium-size enterprises an asset or liability for banks?
Two veteran Nigerian bankers stand on opposite sides of this question. Given the tenure...
Ex-Im Bank Fray May Dilute Obama’s Africa Message
President Obama will emphasize to African leaders in August that the United States is a committed partner in their continent’s economic development, but fighting...
Florizelle Liser At The Helm Of Corporate Council on Africa
Corporate Council on Africa (CCA), a leading Washington, D.C., business association focused on promoting U.S.-Africa trade and investment, named Florizelle (Florie) Liser, assistant U.S....
Nairobi Makes PwC’s ‘Cities of Opportunity’ List
Nairobi was added to the 2014 edition of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Cities of Opportunity report, becoming only the second African city after Johannesburg, South Africa, in...
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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...
