By Ajay Wasserman Africa is no longer “the next big thing” – it has firmly established itself as the big thing. Over the past decade, the...
Fourteen Caribbean Community (CARICOM) nations will meet with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Georgetown, Guyana, on November 20, 2024. This historic summit marks the first...
By Charles Sekwalor For the last decade, Africa has tempted businesses with the promise of immense opportunity. The continent’s rapidly growing youthful population, vibrant cultural scenes...
African Business | The CEO of Qatar Airways, Badr Mohammed Al Meer, said that the airline will soon announce an investment in a Southern African airline...
By Gregory Simpkins Investors, especially American investors, are overly cautious in terms of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Africa. They require extra assurance of the viability...
By Henri Al Helaly Entrepreneurship in Africa is on an exponential upsurge. The vibrant entrepreneurial landscape is being propelled by several factors: a young demographic driving...
By Jessica Blake Reuters | Africa is rich with women entrepreneurs. In fact, the continent has the highest proportion of women entrepreneurs in the world, with...
By Chinedu Okafor The current Tanzanian president, since assuming power has made it her mission to enrich and empower the people of Tanzania. This is evident...
The Nigerian capital managed to outperform its direct competitors Nairobi, Cape Town and Johannesburg in 2021, a trend that is likely to continue.
Africa is increasingly and gradually becoming more competitive investment destination for decades to come because of its improving relative risk profiles, demography, and continental integration.
According to the World Bank, foreign direct investment (FDI) in Africa hit a record US$60 billion by the middle of this year. Yet, many multinational companies...
By Johan Burger Multinational corporations have targeted Africa as a destination for their investments for quite a while. The latest investments include American multinational food manufacturer...
By Walter Baets If you ask people what they consider the world’s most prestigious business degree, most are likely to answer, “An MBA.” Indeed, the Master...
Doing business in Africa is a high risk and high reward venture that can be continuously fruitful if taken advantage of at the right time. ...
African Ministers of Trade and experts in trade and regional integration have aligned with Nigeria’s position on the trade liberalization deal with the European Union under...
The government of Burkina Faso is committed to ensuring an open and stable business environment for foreign companies, said President Blaise Compaore, as the West African...
Following decades of political turmoil, Liberia has now set its sight on development and national recovery as evidenced by 10 years of unbroken peace. With peace...
Nigeria has become the fastest growing aviation business in Africa with more new and pre-owned aircraft delivery than South Africa as at 2013. This was disclosed...
Namibian Power utility, NamPower, is pursuing extension of Power Purchase Agreements with some neighboring countries in a bid to subvert power outages. The negotiations with South...
Using solar energy initiatives, the Zimbabwe Resources Foundation has given solar kits to 100 women entrepreneurs in various communities in Manicaland. The kits include solar panels,...
Sim Shagaya, CEO of Konga, Nigeria’s leading e-commerce platform, has identified electronic commerce (e-commerce) as a very important driver of Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Speaking...
The legal battle between the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Mallam Sanusi Lamido, and the Federal Government has taken a new twist...
President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday said African leaders should prioritize the structural transformation of African economy if they must achieve regional industrialization initiative. Jonathan said this...
Despite being ubiquitous in Africa, mobile phones are often neglected by businesses as a marketing platform, possibly due to their complexity, according to a report in ITWebAfrica....
2013 was a difficult year for the five BRICS countries. China and Brazil faced slowing growth, South Africa and India were hit by currency instability, and...
Industrialist Manu Chandaria urged Kenyan businesses to venture into the Ethiopian market in order to reap big from one of the fastest growing economy globally. “Ethiopia...
Oil exploration is the real deal in Kenya at the moment, as exploration companies have struck black gold repeatedly in recent times. The latest find was...
Credit Suisse Group AG is deploying investment bankers to woo African entrepreneurs as the second- biggest Swiss bank tries to build its wealth-management business on the...
Residents of Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi and Tanzania will now be able to travel with their respective national currencies in other East African Community (EAC) countries...
Research and Markets Africa B2C E-Commerce Report – 2013 indicates that growing Internet penetration, the spread of mobile technology and improvement of payment and delivery infrastructure...
By Jakkie Cilliers A new paper by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), called South African Futures 2030, outlines several plausible scenarios for the country, based...
The axiom reads “Cleanliness is next to godliness.” So I suppose there’s no reason to be surprised that African Americans — a community known for its...
Digital trends specialist, Tomi Ahonen, believes mobile data will be the black gold of 21st century, and it remains the next sure frontier for companies. Speaking...
Africa’s richest man, billionaire Alhaji Aliko Dangote paid a courtesy call, on Thursday, to President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf at her Foreign Ministry Office and briefed her...
(Xinhua) – Entrepreneurs in Jamaica will no longer need to visit multiple agencies to incorporate a company or register a business name, as the government officially...
In the week of September 16, various African governments and their business executives made presentations to various Washington, DC audiences. These 5 days were presentation galore!...
By Tony Elumelu Last week was the first time, in my memory, that a US president came to Africa with investment at the top of his...
By Christopher Duff A lot of people do not realize that the entire landscape of the business world is shifting. Most of us only hear about...
Jerome Almon. PHOTO/BiztechAfrica U.S. war veteran and businessman Jerome Almon, is in the process of launching a US$100 billion initiative to rally the support of African...
The recently elected Keith Mitchell administration has outlined plans for the construction of a new economy that will spur economic growth and development in Grenada. The...
Mocality, a small business listing directory, with a footprint in Kenya and Nigeria will be shutting down operations on February 28. The announcement came via the...
By Brian Laung Aoaeh Africa is experiencing a boom in entrepreneurship due to proliferating Internet and mobile computing technologies. Simultaneously African startups face the often life-threatening...
Haiti’s Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe (pictured), says his country is hoping to attract high-end tourists and multinational investors — instead of constant aid handouts — so...
News Release (Marketwire) — The University of Botswana Faculty of Business will receive a US$115,000 grant to develop graduate and executive business programs from the Graduate...
MTN Uganda has launched a multi-million dollar Switching and Data Center in Mutundwe, just outside Kampala, and in addition, a new MTN Business Unit that will...
Foreign investors often cite a difference in business cultures as one of the challenges of operating in Africa. However, even local African business people need to...
Organizations voted as the cream of Caribbean industry have been announced as winners of the Caribbean Business Awards. This year’s entrants ranged from new business start...
By Javier Cuñat According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), from 2000 to 2010, six of the world’s ten fastest-growing economies were in sub-Saharan Africa and...
Rising business confidence and consumer demand have lifted private equity (PE) fund executives’ appetite in East African economies to an all-time high, shrugging off rising concern...
More and more Black Americans are realizing that the success of Black businesses relies on them. In a time of financial anguish for many, some African-Americans...
The National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL) welcomes the announcement by African Petroleum that their Narina-1 exploratory well drilled in Block LB-09 off the coast of...
Fred Mwangaguhunga, founder and owner of the urban gossip site “Mediatakeout.com,” recently sat down with us to share his ongoing passion for business. Mwangaguhunga told us...
