South Africa Sees Stocks Rebound
From Business Recorder South African stocks posted moderate gains on Friday, halting four straight sessions of declines, with the market turning its attention to next week’s Monetary Policy Committee...
View ArticleUK Says Realtions With Zambia To Be Based On Trade, Not Aid
From Post Zambia UK Secretary of State for International Development Justine Greening says the relationship between Zambia and the UK will be based on trade and not aid. And Greening announced her...
View ArticleDigital Entrepreneurs PushTo Get African Games On Phones
From Reuters Safari the warrior crouches in the bush – a digitized heroine from the new mobile phone game “Afro Fighters” that its Nigerian creator hopes will soon rival the likes of Clash of Clans or...
View ArticleCentral African Republic Religuous Leaders May Boycott Peace Talks
From Business Insider Key political and religious groups in strifetorn Central African Republic on threatened to boycott peace talks in the neighboring Republic of Congo, saying their county’s future...
View ArticleNortel Nears Settlement Agreement For EU, Middle East, Africa
From CBC A settlement over how to divide up a portion of the $7.3 billion US made from the sale of certain Nortel Networks assets may be nearing completion. Two sources familiar with the negotiations...
View ArticleMTN Debuts Africa’s First Solar Cooling System
From CNBC MTN South Africa has unveiled the continent’s first concentrating solar cooling system to power the firm’s data centers. “MTN is acutely aware of the impact of global warming and its adverse...
View ArticleSouth Africa Metalworkers Cut Pay Demand to 10% Increase
From Bloomberg The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, the country’s biggest labor group, reduced its wage demand to 10 percent from 12 percent and said it’s willing to end its strike if...
View ArticleGhana Abandons Plans for Longer-Term Debt As Cedi Sinks
From Bloomberg Ghana’s central bank held off on selling cedi bonds with maturities more than three years as the world’s worst-performing currency makes longer-dated debt less attractive, according to...
View ArticleInvestors Scared Away From Nigeria Due To Risks
From Standard Digital Fund managers in Nigeria have been moving cash into government bonds this year and selling riskier assets, dampening a stock market rally as uncertainty over forthcoming elections...
View ArticleSouth Africa´s Post-Mandela Adjustments
From The Wall Street Journal This time last year, on the eve of South Africa’s 20th anniversary of the first multiracial democratic elections, Nelson Mandela lay sick in the hospital as the country...
View Article10 American Movies Shot In South Africa That Weren’t All Blockbusters
More than 10,000 American movies have been shot in South Africa, with new ones being made there on a regular basis. “Avengers 2”, set for a 2015 release, is being filmed in Johannesburg. Because of the...
View ArticleCan a Green Economy Model Help Kenya Grasp Sustainability?
Written by Ally Jamah | From Standard Digital As the country strives to transform its economy, generate jobs and boost Kenyans’ income, the green economy model is increasingly becoming an irresistible...
View Article10 Of The Most Impressive Bakeries Around The World
At Demel in Vienna, you can watch the chefs delicately put the finishing touches on beautiful cakes you can order by the slice. The pastry shop is so well known that it has its own Wikipedia page! And...
View ArticleAirlines With The Nicest And Rudest Flight Attendants
One satisfied traveler raved to Yahoo.com about the cotton pajamas provided on Qatar Airways, saying he had “never been so well treated.” Airlinequality.com reviewers say the Qatar Airways staff is...
View ArticleNew South African Visa Laws Cause Chaos For Zimbabweans
South Africa’s new visa and immigration laws are causing panic among migrants, especially Zimbabweans who fled political and economic crisis after the disputed 2008 elections, AFP reports. An...
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Anti-Apartheid Novelist Nadine Gordimer Dead At 90
From NYTimes. Nadine Gordimer, the South African writer whose literary ambitions led her into the heart of apartheid to create a body of fiction that brought her a Nobel Prize in 1991, died on Sunday...
View ArticleMost Infamous Terrorist Groups in Africa
Ansar Dine Led by Iyad Ag Ghaly – one of the leaders of the Tuareg rebellion in the 1990s – Ansar Dine is an Islamic militant group operating in Mali, and seeks to impose strict Sharia law across the...
View ArticleFOREX Africa: Ugandan Shilling Fall Little To Do With Anti-Gay Law
As a frontier market, the countries of Africa represent both tremendous opportunities and tremendous risks. On the risk side of the ledger are all the usual complications of international trade and...
View ArticleDid BNP Sanctions Violations Harm Development in Sudan?
Much has been said about the BNP Paribas scandal, in which the bank broke American restrictions on Sudan, Iran, and Cuba in order to carry out billions of dollars in transactions for the governments...
View ArticleSouth African Car Manufacturers Halts Production As Strike Persists
Car manufacturers in South Africa have started to feel the weight of a two week old metal workers strike, with already two operators shutting down their production as supply components dry up. In the...
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