South African and American lawyers are asking a court to allow thousands of miners with lung diseases to sue leading South African gold mining companies they...
Ethiopia’s new Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn. PHOTO/World Economic Forum The death of Ethiopia’s prime minister pushed his relatively unknown successor, Hailemariam Desalegn, into the spotlight on...
By Ryan Elcock As Africa and the Caribbean continue to develop their own economies and bring prosperity to their people, there are sure to be hiccups...
Last week, I went out on a limb, praised Jamaica and then, in the same vein [to the dismay of my colleague Ryan Elcock] basically put...
(Reuters) – South Sudan expects to restart some oil output in December and more after June next year, an official said on Tuesday, after the new...
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi at a session of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, January 26, 2012. PHOTO/Christian Hartmann/Reuters Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia’s long-time ruler,...
Members of a new parliament in Somalia are being sworn in, presidential elections are to be held in the coming weeks. The mandate for Somalia’s U.N....
Malawi President Joyce Banda will meet her Tanzania counterpart, Jakaya Kikwete, in the next two days to discuss a dispute over Lake Malawi, where oilexploration is...
While U.S. and European banks suffer hangovers from the Great Recession and continued shock waves inside the eurozone, banks in Africa have never looked stronger or...
Satellite image of the mass of land reclaimed for the Eko Atlantic City. PHOTO/File It is widely expected that Nigeria will overtake South Africa as the...
I.B.M. is opening a research center in Nairobi, adding an African lab to its global network. Kenya will be the fourth nation where I.B.M. has opened...
Ghana’s Late President John Evans Atta Mills speaks during a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington,...
As rival automakers move cautiously into Africa, Renault SA is building the continent’s biggest assembly plant in a bet that buyers there are poised to shift...
Official results published overnight from a second round of legislative elections in the Republic of Congo give the president’s party an absolute majority in parliament with...
(Reuters) – Africa’s growth could rise to 7 percent by the year 2015 – the growth driven by a rush of investors attracted by its drive...
Although a direct correlation may never be established, one might not be too far off if they blamed the Bush II administration for the increase in...
Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday dismissed as “blackmail” a call on him by the suspected leader of Islamist group Boko Haram to resign and convert...
Ethiopia’s Tirunesh Dibaba during the IAAF Diamond League Prefontaine Classic on July 3, 2010 at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. PHOTO/File Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia put...
Madagascar’s election commission says the island nation plans to hold its presidential election next year on May 8. Election commission president Beatrice Attalah said Wednesday that...
Ghana President John Dramani Mahama. PHOTO/Issouf Sanogo/AFP The governing party of Ghana vowed Wednesday to carry out the “unfinished job” of the country’s late president as...
As at August 1, 2012, China has more medals than any other country at the London Olympic Games. The Chinese are probably on track to win...
Business is booming on the continent of Africa, which means an increased need for talent management. In recognition of this, the popular Best Employers research is...
(PRNewswire) – In an effort to bring renewed focus to the rich histories of the African Diaspora and its lasting impression on the Caribbean, the island...
Africa is growing, and it is become an increasingly popular belief that now is the time to invest on the continent. Here are five note-worthy trends...
Interim Mali President.,Dioncounda Traoré. PHOTO/File In his first address to the nation since returning home from hospital, the interim president of Mali, said that he “fully...
The Ivory Coast president says military intervention in Mali is “inevitable” within weeks, if there’s no quick change in the West African country where Islamist extremists...
Africa is growing, and African companies need cash to expand. Investors want in on the action, especially given low returns in many other parts of the...
New Ghana President.,John Dramani Mahama. PHOTO/File President John Atta Mills’ election victory secured Ghana’s reputation as one of the most mature democracies in West Africa, a...
Ghana’s President John Evans Atta Mills speaks during a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, March...
Nigeria President.,Goodluck Jonathan. PHOTO/File The House of Representatives in Nigeria, has declared that its decision to initiative impeachment proceedings against President Goodluck Jonathan if he fails...
Almost all prominent or successful business people in the Great Lakes Region [loosely Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, East Africa including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda...
The Olkaria II 70MW geothermal power plant in Kenya. PHOTO/File The Energy Generating Company in Kenya (KenGen) is expected to officially launch the construction of the...
The Inye Tablet. PHOTO/CNN Saheed Adepoju of Nigeria has unveiled the Inye this week, a tablet computer designed to be second answer from Africa to the...
Tanzania on Saturday halted rescue operations for a ferry accident that appears to have killed 146 people. Tanzania government official Ali Juma Shamhuna said 69 passengers...
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi at a session of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, January 26, 2012. PHOTO/Christian Hartmann/Reuters The government of Ethiopia revealed...
Sierra Leone is a country on the rise. Sierra Leone suffered a decade-long brutal war that ended in 2002. The country’s gross domestic product GDP is...
Environmental Damage caused by past oil spill in Nigeria. PHOTO/File The Nigeria regulator says it wants Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s local subsidiary to pay a US$5...
Private equity investment into Africa more than tripled in 2011 to reach US $3 billion, according to the Chief Economist of the African Development Bank (AfDB)....
South Africa’s Caster Semenya. PHOTO/File Caster Semenya will carry South Africa’s flag at the opening ceremony of the London Olympics. Semenya was given the honor Wednesday...
Click a few keys, exchange a few numbers, and it’s done. With just a mobile phone and a registration with Safaricom, Kenya’s mobile service giant, you...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP South Africa’s schoolchildren sang happy birthday to Nelson Mandela as he turned 94 on Wednesday, a day...
Africa World Airlines, a joint Venture between the Social Security and National Insurance Trust, the Strategic African Securities (ASA), both of Ghana, and Hainan Airlines of...
Mali was “preparing all options” to retake the Islamist-occupied north of the country and national consultations were being prepared to form a government of national unity,...
Video streaming will be the next big wave of online content use in Africa. There are still considerable network challenges but the level of existing use...
Phuti Mahanyele – CEO of Black Economic Empowerment Company Shanduka Group. PHOTO/Fati Moalusi Phuti Mahanyele wants to bring Africa the Big Mac. For two years, Ms....
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma., the new Chairperson of the African Union. PHOTO/File Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, a veteran of the fight against apartheid who has served in the cabinet of...
The South Africa Deputy Minister of International Relations Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim recently visited the San Francisco African American Chamber of Commerce to talk to potential investors...
More than two million voters are called to the polls in the Republic of Congo to elect a new parliament. The ruling party of President Denis...
Kenya has decided to issue fewer work permits to foreign workers in an attempt to boost employment for young Kenyans. Kenya has shut the door on...
Michaela DePrince. PHOTO/First Position Michaela DePrince was little more than a toddler when she saw her first ballerina — an image in a magazine page blown...
Trade and investment throughout the African Diaspora will create jobs, healthcare, infrastructure and wealth. Booker T. Washington told us more than 100 years ago that if...
An official says authorities in Ivory Coast are starting to destroy hundreds of small arms collected since the end of the post-election violence that claimed some...
The West Africa Monetary Zone (WAMZ) groups together Guinea and the five Anglophone West African countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria and The Gambia. One...
Tabitha Karanja – founder and CEO., Keroche Breweries. PHOTO/Daily Nation Tabitha Karanja of Kenya, is an entrepreneur who has dared to “tread only where men walk”....
Botswana Vice President., Mompati Merafhe. PHOTO/File The Vice President of Botswana, Mompati Merafhe, has announced his intention to retire at the end of this month due...
Senegal has withdrawn a commitment to contribute troops for a regional ECOWAS intervention in Mali. Senegal President Macky Sall communicated the decision during a visit to...
As the US space programme loses momentum with the retirement of the space shuttle, those of Nigeria and Ghana and Nigeria are just taking off. Nigeria...
Thomas Lubanga Dyilo. PHOTO/File The International Criminal Court (ICC) sentenced a Congolese warlord to 14 years in prison on Tuesday, a watershed moment for the 10-year-old...
Wind farm located at the Ngong Hills near Nairobi, Kenya. PHOTO/File The Lake Turkana Wind Power Project (LTWP)– a 300-megawatt proposal for the northeast part of...
Top companies in Africa ranked primarily by market capitalization. Some of the companies below are listed on stock exchanges in Africa as well as other bourses...
South Africa’s Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma (l) and Incumbent African Union Commission Chairperson Jean Ping (r). PHOTO/File The battle for greater influence in Africa between Nigeria and South...
By Emmanuel Musaazi China has become the new cash cow on the block. Money from China is being sought worldwide and countries are lining up bowl...
West Africa leaders meet in Burkina Faso on Saturday with civil leaders from Mali amid moves to create a government of national unity to tackle a...
Dangote cement’ Obajana plant. PHOTO/File As American and European companies retrench from their efforts to bankroll projects across Africa, a group of investors is quickly emerging...
(Reuters) – Uganda’s sole power distributor Umeme plans to list this year on the Uganda and Nairobi stock exchanges as it looks to raise capital to...
Have you noticed all the current efforts to promote business opportunities in Africa? Have you wondered how now, all of a sudden, politicians are placing so...
Mthombo oil refinery, Eastern Cape, South Africa. PHOTO/http://www.sxc.hu (Reuters) – Black ownership of fuel companies operating in South Africa is far below state-mandated targets agreed in...
Multifuncional Floating Dock at the Niger Dock. PHOTO/Navimor International (Marketwire -07/05/12) – Avaya, a global provider of business collaboration and communications solutions and services, today announced...
Recently elected Senegal President Macky Sall. PHOTO/Pan African News Wire The party of recently elected Senegal President Macky Sall secured 119 seats in the country’s 150-seat...
Rescue workers search at the site of a plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria. PHOTO/Sunday Alamba/AP A grounded Nigeria airline says it has started compensating families of...
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma (l) and Incumbent African Union Commission Chairperson Jean Ping (r). PHOTO/File South Africa on Tuesday made a last-ditch effort for its candidate to head...
Across the Africa, internet penetration is relatively low, computers are often too expensive to purchase, and online business transactions can be logistically complicated to execute. But...
Senegal President Macky Sall. PHOTO/File Senegal’s presidential coalition looked headed for a sweeping victory in legislative elections which were marked by a low turnout, unofficial results...
Shell oil worker on an offshore oil platform in the Niger Delta. PHOTO/AP Heritage Oil PLC says it has agreed to buy a 45 percent stake...
Generations of Americans have learned to pity Africa. It’s mainly seen as a quagmire of famine and genocide, a destination only for a sybaritic safari or...
Hardline Islamists occupying northern Mali went on the rampage in Timbuktu on Saturday, destroying ancient tombs of Muslim saints and threatening to wipe out every religious...
The main promenade in the capital of Luanda in Angola. PHOTO/Alamy This year Luanda, the capital of Africa’s second largest oil producer Angola, has been named...
Multiple clashes between security forces and suspected members of a radical Islamist sect (Boko Haram) in northern Nigeria have left four policemen, four civilians and 19...
Muhammed Jah, founder and CEO QuantumNet Group. PHOTO/BBC The Gambia’s Muhammed Jah clearly remembers the day, in the late 1990s, when a friend told him that...
(Reuters) – The arrival of global advertising agencies has raised the stakes in east Africa’s US$1 billion market, with new players hoping to wrestle a piece...
(Reuters) – The economy of Ghana grew 8.7 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2012 while a sharp rise in producer prices underlined persistent inflationary...
A South Sudanese boy holds onto the arm of an Israeli aid worker as he boards a bus at the south Tel Aviv bus station to...
China’s investment in Africa represents a small but rapidly growing piece of total Chinese outward foreign direct investment worldwide. Africa is the third largest recipient of...
Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan. PHOTO/File The president of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan has requested and accepted the resignations of the executives of the oil-rich West African nation’s...
Raindolf Owusu – founder and CEO Oasis Websoft. PHOTO/File Raindolf Owusu has designed, built and launched a computer operating system relevant to Africa. The operating system...
Barbados has not forgotten the potential of the African market for tourism, according to Tourism Minister Richard Sealy. Sealy, who was speaking recently at the launch...
A High Court in Zambia on Tuesday overturned the dissolution of the former ruling party over unpaid fees, arguing the move had been excessive and against...
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) began a key policy conference Tuesday that pushes for a “second transition” to give black people more ownership of...
Massive landslides induced by torrential rains destroyed three villages in the mountainous district of Bududa in eastern Uganda, killing scores of people but possibly hundreds, officials...
One of the people injured in a grenade attack on a bar in the coastal city of Mombasa is being held as a suspect, police said...
Ory Okolloh, activist, lawyer, blogger, and co-founder of Ushahidi.com. PHOTO/File One of the many terms Silicon Valley has bequeathed to the business world is “serial entrepreneur”,...
Kenya is protesting a United States embassy travel advisory that warned of an imminent terror attack on the coastal town of Mombasa, saying the advisory amounts...
Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan has requested and accepted the resignations of the Defence Minister, Haliru Bello and the National Security Adviser, General Andrew Azazi. Gen. Azazi...
Kenya has suspended the recruitment of its citizens to work in the Middle East following rampant cases of abuse. The Foreign Affairs ministry of Kenya, said...
Nigeria troops have arrested a suspect in the Christmas Day bombings that killed at least 44 people, state television reported, as Washington put three Boko Haram...
There are now several online and mobile music TV platforms that have started in Africa. Some like Iroko Partners started with Nollywood film and went into...
The global downturn could put the brakes on Namibia’s economy, but analysts remain optimistic on the country’s ability to shrug off external shocks given increased consumer...
Kenya’s David Rudisha at the New York adidas Grand Prix. PHOTO/Samsung Diamond League World 800m record holder David Rudisha and Olympic 1,500 metres champion Asbel Kiprop...
South Africa’s US$ 2 billion commitment to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) emergency resources fund a sign of the country’s ability to assist in efforts to...
Tanzania has nearly tripled its estimate of recoverable natural gas reserves to up to 28.74 trillion cubic feet from 10 trillion and plans to introduce new...
(Reuters) – Shares in Telkom SA Ltd., surged nearly 8 percent in early trade on Tuesday after a report said its top shareholder, the South African...
Washington DC is the capital city of the world’s biggest economy. It is also the place many countries come to make or break themselves. Some African...
Aliko Dangote. PHOTO/Mike Hutchings/Reuters Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, will on Tuesday return back to the office of the President of the Nigeria Stock Exchange (NSE),...
James Mwangi, CEO, Equity Bank, Kenya. PHOTO/File James Mwangi, the CEO of Kenya’s Equity Bank Limited was today named the Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur Of...
Suicide bombers belonging to the radical Islamist sect, Boko Haram, killed 21 people in attacks on three churches in Nigeria during Sunday services, exacerbating religious tensions...
The Economic Community of West African states (ECOWAS) is urging the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution that would authorize any military action it takes...
The Meltwater Entreprenerial School of Technology (MEST) in Ghana was founded in February 2008. MEST, started out with modest aims: to take the brightest and most...
Kenya Airways, Africa’s third-biggest airline is looking to implement cost-cutting measures affecting staff, procurement, and fuel use. This comes after a sharp rise in its fuel...
(Reuters) – Norwegian oil company Statoil and partner ExxonMobil have made a large gas discovery in the Statoil-operated Block 2 license in Tanzania, the company said...
Aliko Dangote (Reuters) – Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote is targeting a market capitalization of US$35-40 billion for his cement company when he lists it in London...
Fastjet: Stelios Haji-Ioannou investing in low-cost African airline An African low-cost airline, which is the brainchild of easyJet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, has moved closer to...
“If it works in Africa, it will work anywhere.” That’s the tagline of Shimba Technologies, a Nairobi (Kenya)-based mobile app developer. And it could lead to...
Aliko Dangote Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote commissioned an expansion of his Obajana cement plant on Monday that raised its capacity to 10.25 million tonnes a year,...
Kenya continues to invest in modern infrastructure. PHOTO/File Kenya could reach middle income status in the next four years if its current growth rates are sustained,...
Lesotho Prime Minister., Thomas Thabane. PHOTO/File Thomas Thabane was on Friday sworn in as the Prime Minister of Lesotho, after his coalition unseated former leader Pakalitha...
By Ragnar Gudmundsson In the past, when the global economy weakened, sub-Saharan Africa fared very badly. Not so in recent years. While the global economy spluttered...
Oil explorer Tullow Oil said it found oil offshore the Ivory Coast, giving it confidence that it will make additional discoveries in waters to the west...
South Africa’s Caster Semenya. PHOTO/File Former world champion Caster Semenya made South Africa’s initial team for the London Olympics, but double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius still hasn’t...
Rescue officials in Nigeria said Wednesday they have ended their search for bodies in the site where an airliner crashed into a densely populated area, killing...
Ethiopia has denied accreditation to what would have been the country’s first Islamic banking service, citing new banking and terrorism laws. Zam-Zam Bank applied for a...
Rescue Workers clear plane wreckage in Lagos, Nigeria. PHOTO/Reuters/Akintunde Akinleye Mourners silently walked between rows of the dead from a plane crash in Nigeria that killed...
Rescue workers search at the site of a plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday. PHOTO/Sunday Alamba/AP A torrential downpour and strong winds prevented emergency crews from...
Firefighters try to put out the fire in Ishaga district, an outskirt of Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos, on June 3. PHOTO/Xinhua/Tunji Obasa Emergency workers in Nigeria...
By Ali Bongo Ondimba What is your perception of Africa today? Do you see Africa as the “dark continent” of old, with famine, wars, poverty, tribal...
A passenger plane crashed into a two-story building in Nigeria’s largest city of Lagos on Sunday, officials said. Casualty figures were not yet known, said Lagos...
Former Lesotho Prime Minister., Pakalitha Mosisili. PHOTO/Gallo Images Pakalitha Mosisili who led Lesotho for the last 14 years could soon be leading the opposition after his...
Tony Elumelu Africa, the second largest continent, is in a fix. It is rich in natural resources. It has a relatively young population, but years after...
(Reuters) -The Finance Minister of Nigeria, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala revised down the country’s growth forecasts to 6-7 percent on Wednesday, from 7-8 percent previously. “We can do...
Former Liberia President.,Charles Taylor.PHOTO/File International judges sentenced former Liberian President Charles Taylor to 50 years in prison Wednesday, saying he was responsible for “some of the...
(Reuters)- African mobile operator MTN said on Tuesday it is working with U.S. authorities to manage compliance with sanctions against Iran, one of its biggest markets....
Lesotho Prime Minister., Pakalitha Mosisili. PHOTO/Gallo Images The party of the longtime prime minister won Lesotho’s parliamentary elections, according to complete results posted Tuesday on the...
By Ryan Elcock I recently stumbled upon an interesting article from the Jakarta Globe called, “China Extends its Economic Influence to the Caribbean Region” which got...
An explosion ripped through a building full of small shops in downtown Nairobi on Monday, wounding at least 16 people, the police commissioner said. He could...
The opposition All Basotho Convention (ABC) has taken an early lead in Lesotho’s fiercely fought general elections, winning the first eight constituencies that have been announced....
Incumbent Prime Minister of Lesotho, Pakalitha Mosisili. PHOTO/Xinhua Lesotho’s one million voters went to the polls Saturday in a tight general election where bitter personal rivalries...
The two main contenders to unseat Lesotho’s Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili are both former members of his cabinet who rebelled over his refusal to step aside...
Give Africans a piece of technology and watch them invent a thousand uses for it. This idea was of course exaggerated for laughs in the 1980...
Economists say Africa will grow by 5.5 percent in 2012, with seven African countries expected to rank among the 10 fastest-growing economies in the world during...
Africa plans to launch a fund to harness the financial resources of its citizens based in the Diaspora which will be used for development projects on...
(Reuters) – Ecobank Kenya has received a US$25 million capital injection from its parent company to help it expand and address the rising cost of financing...
First African brand enters ranking. MTN has been ranked Africa’s most valuable brand in the authoritative BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands 2012 survey, released...
Miners at work in Zimbabwe. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Around 60 miners trapped underground on Tuesday after an accident and fire at Zimbabwe’s Mimosa platinum mine have...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) says it will investigate who is responsible for allowing Monday’s attack on Mali’s president to happen. ECOWAS, expressed...
West African mediators wrapped up their mission to Mali on Monday, after securing their choice for transition president by offering the leader of a March coup...
The chief negotiator for the economic community of West African States (ECOWAS) says the junta in Mali has accepted that the current interim president will stay...
(Reuters) – Syngenta, the world’s largest agrochemicals company, said on Friday it is planning to invest some US$500 million in Africa to help sow the seeds...
Malawi President.,Joyce Banda Malawi’s new president Joyce Banda has announced she will repeal her southern African country’s ban on homosexual acts. President Joyce Banda’s announcement during...
The first wave of troops from the West African regional bloc – the economic community of West African states (ECOWAS) have landed in Guinea-Bissau to try...
Africa’s rapid economic growth has helped change the stereotype of a hopeless continent of starving people waiting to be rescued, but it has also created an...
The University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) was ranked the top South African and African business school in the annual UK Financial Times...
Politicians in the nation of Guinea-Bissau say they have signed a deal that would allow the country’s interim leader to choose a prime minister. The political...
(Reuters) – Planned investment in Uganda more than tripled in the first quarter of this year from the preceding three months, buoyed by increasing interest in...
As a continent, Africa is of course diverse, with individual countries performing economically with different levels of success. There are however significant business opportunities across the...
Regulators in Nigeria have fined four mobile phone carriers a total of US$7.3 million over poor service in a nation that depends on cellular phones for...
Africa is full of opportunities, and with a need to create something truly African, a number of mobile app developers have taken up the challenge. Here...
African independent producers have three major challenges: getting known globally, finding the right distribution network and getting some money back. Buni TV, an innovative web platform...
West Africa’s regional bloc – the economic community of West African states (ECOWAS) threatened Monday to re-impose sanctions on Mali, saying that the junta’s actions “appear...
(Reuters) –Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), a Lagos-based development financier, is considering potential investments worth US$3 billion across sub-Saharan Africa over the next year, its chief executive...
Uganda troops hunt for Joseph Kony. PHOTO/Rodney Muhumuza/AP A Ugandan army official says Ugandan forces have captured a senior commander of Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army...
Sudan says it is ready to hold talks with South Sudan about outstanding issues between the two countries. Sundan’s Foreign Ministry said Saturday that the “security...
Alcatel-Lucent has signed two contracts to roll out 4G, long term evolution (LTE) in East Africa as the race among African mobile phone operators to capture...
The coup leaders in Guinea-Bissau and west African mediators agreed on Friday that parliamentary speaker Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo will lead a transition government, ruling out the...
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has honored five African innovators in its roll of Social Entrepreneurs of the Year 2012. Klaus Schwab, founder and executive Chairman...
Founder and CEO of the Dangote Group., Aliko Dangote. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote said his conglomerate needed to spend US$7.5 billion over the...
(Reuters) – Swiss-based oil firm Nimex Petroleum has been suspended by Nigeria’s fuel regulator for failing to provide documents for shipments, the company said on Wednesday,...
The green roof garden at the East African Coca-Cola Company headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. PHOTO/AlertNet/Gitonga Njeru By Gitonga Njeru Architects in Kenya are designing buildings with...
Mark Kaigwa speaking at the re:publica gathering in Berlin. PHOTO/File “Africa is writing history for all the right reasons now. The amount of innovation going on...
(Reuters) – “There’s more to life than gross domestic product (GDP),” is a favorite refrain of left-leaning social commentators and environmental activists. But when it comes...
Tullow Oil says that it has found even more oil at a site in northern Kenya discovered in March. Tullow said previously that 20 meters (about...
Ugandan information technology firm SatNav East Africa has sold a 26 percent stake to South Africa’s MapIT. SatNav East Africa chief executive Vincent Okema said the...
Africa received its largest ever share of global foreign direct investment (FDI) last year, an Ernst and Young survey has said. FDI projects grew by 27...
The African Union (AU) says that Sudan has endorsed the AU’s roadmap to avert an all-out war with South Sudan. The AU Commission said late Wednesday...
Njeri Rionge. PHOTO/twitter In east African business circles, few entrepreneurs shine brighter than Njeri Rionge. One of Kenya’s most successful and revered serial entrepreneurs, Rionge has...
The South African province of Gauteng sees Georgia as a place to begin erasing the negative stereotypes that can keep Americans from investing in their country....
The UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Wednesday threatening non-military sanctions against Sudan and South Sudan if they don’t halt escalating violence on their border...
It is 10 years since the end of the civil war in Angola. The country has made enormous strides in rebuilding its economy, which is expected...
West African regional bloc – the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) announced Tuesday that it has imposed sanctions on Guinea-Bissau after talks in Gambia...
Gunfire echoed across Bamako on Tuesday as Mali government troops battled each other, with one side trying to oust soldiers who seized power in a coup...
Windfarm in the Ngong Hills, near Nairobi – Kenya Governments and business are scrambling to find ways of making renewable energy, such as solar energy (photovoltaic...
(Reuters)- China’s Gingko Energy Company plans to invest US$100 million over a five-year period to revive production at Kilembe copper mine in western Uganda, the east...
Two motorcycle-riding suicide bombers (suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect) drove into a convoy carrying a top police official in northeast Nigeria on...
One person died and 15 people were wounded when a grenade was thrown into a church in Kenya’s capital during Sunday service, an official said, an...
Electronic toll gate structure on Gauteng highway. PHOTO/Yuri Madonsela (Africa Review) – South African authorities have bowed to public pressure and postponed the April 30 launch...
(Reuters) – The United States on Thursday circulated to the U.N. Security Council a draft resolution that warns Sudan and South Sudan of sanctions if they...
The World Bank investing arm, the International Financing Corporation (IFC), will own 7.4 percent of Kenya Airways after conclusion of a rights issue through which it...
Patrick Makau wins the Rotterdam marathon. April 11 2010. PHOTO/Olaf Kraak/AFP/Getty Images Kenya left world record-holder Patrick Makau off its Olympic marathon team on Wednesday as...
Barbados narrowly edged-out Puerto Rico for the highest position among Caribbean countries in the 2012 Global Information Technology Report (GITP). Placing 35th out of 142 in...
Former JPMorgan traders Patrice Backer, left, and Papa Ndiaye head a private-equity firm in Dakar, Senegal. PHOTO/Finbarr O’Reilly/Reuters For decades, many African countries saw some of...
African middle class family in Lusaka, Zambia. PHOTO/Georgina Smith/The Guardian A growing middle class has fueled Africa’s fast-growing consumer market driving the regional economy, according to...
Nigeria’s military says five suspected members of a radical Islamist sect were killed in an explosion that struck a small town in the country’s restive northeast....
British Airways has admitted to withholding a statutory payment to Nigeria, marking a turning point in the face-off between the government of Nigeria and the foreign...
Tony Elumelu Nigerian banker and philanthropist Tony Elumelu was recently in Washington D.C., where he reiterated his belief that Africans themselves will be at the forefront...
South Africa’s Caster Semenya. PHOTO/File Former world champion Caster Semenya qualified for the 800 meters at the London Olympics on Friday. The South African eased concerns...
Botswana’s big idea for diversification of the largely mineral-dependent economy is the establishment of a world-class financial services hub in the capital city, Gaborone, to develop...
(Reuters) – Nakumatt, Kenya’s largest retailer, plans to expand across Africa by focusing on opening stores in more eastern Africa countries over the next two years,...
Abdirashid Duale CEO of Dahabshiil. PHOTO/File The story behind international money transfer Dahabshiil truly is one of rags to riches. The company, now one of the...
A good way to start redefining African risk would be for African-owned financial institutions to establish their own rating agency. The idea that risk analysts and...
(Reuters)- High commodity prices will buoy much of sub-Saharan Africa in 2012, but South Africa will continue to stumble due to its deep ties to crisis-ridden...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. PHOTO/Yuri Gripas/Reuters The Nigerian challenger to head the World Bank congratulated Korean-American physician Jim Yong Kim on his appointment to the post on Monday,...
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni. PHOTO/File Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni will step down in 2016 if his ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party asks him to. Museveni...
