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10 Great Film Directors From Africa
Gavin Hood Another great South African painter of life on film who has become a Hollywood go-to director. First a lawyer and then a U.C.L.A. graduate from the film program, Hood won the Foreign Film...
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17 Most Marijuana-Friendly Countries in the World
Although it has been enjoyed for millennia, marijuana has been a controversial subject. Many people believe that, as a drug, it should remain illegal and its use, subject to the highest punishments....
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How U.S. Was World’s No. 1 Buyer Of Ivory For 100 Years
From NPR. The illegal trade in ivory from African elephants has tripled in the past 15 years, to the extent that biologists fear for the creatures’ future existence. Most of the ivory is sold in China...
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Why Nigeria Is Africa’s Business Testing Ground
From The Economist In 2001 MTN, a fledgling telecoms company from South Africa, paid $285m for one of four mobile licenses sold at auction by the government of Nigeria. Observers thought its board was...
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Ebola Epidemic Gives China Chance To Prove Commitment To Africa
From Quartz While Western NGOs have been evacuating Ebola-affected countries in West Africa in droves, Chinese medical teams and businesses, including software maker Huawei, have been very public about...
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Food Shortage In West Africa On Heels Of Ebola Crisis
From NPR In the shadows of West Africa’s Ebola outbreak, food shortages are starting to develop. This time of year is traditionally the lean season in West Africa, when last year’s harvest of rice or...
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Ethiopia Coffee Export Expected To Rise 25 Percent On World Supply
From BloombergBusinessWeek Ethiopia’s arabica coffee export earnings are forecast to climb 25 percent to about $900 million in 2014-15 because of higher prices after a drought damaged plants in the...
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Eastern Africa Standby Force Set To Be Ready By December
From Business Insider A long-delayed east African rapid reaction force – meant to help stamp out unrest from the Seychelles to Rwanda – will be up and running in December, senior regional officials...
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Should Ghana Start Another Airline Business?
From GhanaWeb A former chief of staff in the erstwhile Kufuor Administration, Kojo Mpiani says it’s imprudent for Ghana to venture into the airline business for commercial purposes judging from the...
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Whale Deaths In Ghana May Cause Crude Oil To Be Banned
From GhanaWeb Ghana risks a ban on the sale of oil from the jubilee fields if measures are not put in place to check the continuous death of whales in its waters. Last weekend a dead whale was washed...
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Kenya Orient Debuts New Insurance For Commercial Vehicles
From Standard Digital Insurance firm, Kenya Orient Insurance Limited has unveiled a new cover to support the rapidly growing transport sector. Orient Commercial Insurance, as the new product is known,...
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Warplanes Attack Prompt Tunisia And Egypt Cancel Libya Flights
From Business Insider Tunisia and Egypt’s Cairo airport canceled most flights to and from Libya on Thursday, officials said, days after the Libyan government said unidentified war planes had attacked...
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Libyan Coastguard Fears 170 Migrants Lost At Sea
From Business Standard A Libyan coastguard official said a boat carrying 170 illegal migrants from sub-Saharan Africa was feared lost at sea off the capital Tripoli. “We are looking for 170 African...
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Two IS Militants In Custody In Morocco
From Business Insider Two Islamic State (IS) militants, who were planning to leave for training camps in Syria and Iraq, were arrested in Morocco, the interior ministry said. The two have connections...
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Ebola Fears Cause Ivory Coast To Close Borders With Liberia, Guinea
From Bloomberg BusinessWeek Ivory Coast closed off its borders with Liberia and Guinea to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus into the West African nation that’s the world’s biggest cocoa producer....
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Sierra Leone Enacts Law Against Harboring Ebola Victims
From Business Insider Sierra Leone’s parliament has made the harboring of Ebola victims a crime punishable by two years’ jail in an attempt to stop the spread of the deadly virus, the justice minister...
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36,000 Homeless, 12 Killed Due To Niger Floods
From Reuters At least 12 people have been killed and more than 36,000 made homeless in Niger due to flooding caused by heavy seasonal rainfall, the government said. Floods are an annually recurring...
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25 Killed In Rebel-Held Mine Collapse In Central African Republic
From Reuters At least 25 people died when a gold mine collapsed near the Central African Republic town of Bambari, a spokesman for the mainly Muslim Seleka rebels which run the mine said on Friday. The...
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Made In Africa Taking Over Made In China Goods
From The Daily Beast Sun Qiaoming is a trader from Jiangsu. He operates his import-export business on the Eastern coast of China, where there is plenty of space for a man with his drive and skills to...
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Zimbabwe Opposition Will Protest Mugabe-Led Economic Crisis
From Bloomberg News Zimbabwe’s main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, plans to organize protests against the government as an economic crisis worsens, its leader Morgan Tsvangirai...
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