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Countries With The Most Slavery In The World In 2014
An estimated 35.8 million people around the world were slaves in 2014, according to the Global Slavery Index. By definition, modern slavery includes forced labor, sexual exploitation, child labor and...
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How Mauritius Is Diversifying Its Economy
Mauritius didn’t rely on tourism to earn the World Bank‘s ranking as the easiest place to do business in Africa in 2014. More than 50 percent of Mauritius is arable, and 90 percent of arable land is...
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What South Africa Is Hoping To Sell At Davos
In Davos at the World Economic Forum, South African President Jacob Zuma tried to dissipate fears that Africa as a whole is unsafe for doing business, DW reports. Africa is relatively stable, Zuma...
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Foreign Agribusiness Investment Soars To $3.4B In Tanzania
Things are looking up for those involved in agribusiness that sprouts out of Tanzania. According to Tanzania Daily News, $3.4 billion has been injected into the country’s commercial agribusiness...
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How Much Will Nigerian Political Campaigns Cost?
Falling oil prices don’t appear to be affecting campaign financing in Nigeria ahead of the country’s upcoming elections, scheduled for Feb. 14, Deji Badmus reports in this CCTV video. The leading...
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Birding In Kenya: A Different Kind Of Safari
Birdwatching (or birding) is one of the most popular tourist activities in Kenya, after visiting coastal areas such as Mombasa and Lamu, and going to the Maasai Mara to catch the wildebeest migration....
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Jean-Yves Ollivier’s Journey To Plot For Peace [Part 3 of 3]
Known mostly for his background in business and expertise in negotiation, Jean-Yves Ollivier, now secretary general of the Brazzaville Foundation For Peace and Conservation, is sharing his story...
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Namibia’s Government Shuts Down China Naval Base Reports
From News 24 The Namibian government on Thursday dismissed as fabricated local media reports that China planned to construct a naval base along Namibia’s coast. “The ministry of foreign affairs wishes...
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Zimbabwe Mining Sector Expected To Shrink By 2 Percent
Written by Godfrey Marawanyika and Brian Latham | From Bloomberg The mining industry in Zimbabwe, the world’s third-biggest platinum producer, will shrink for the first time in five years because of...
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Burkina Faso Irons Out October Presidential Election Date
From News 24 Burkina Faso will hold presidential and legislative elections on 11 October, interim president Michel Kafando announced on Thursday, put an ending to uncertainty over the political...
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Is Groupthink Fueling Investment In Sub-Saharan Africa?
From The Economist When Paul Kavuma began approaching private companies in Africa a decade ago to suggest investing in their businesses and improving the way they were run, he was often shown the door....
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What SmartEngage Technology Will Do For Business In Kenya
Written by Vincent Matinde | From It Web Africa Communications and collaborations enabler for companies, customers and team management, Avaya, has announced plans to extensively expand its presence in...
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Are Lower Prices Democratizing Use Of Satellites In Africa?
From an IRIN report published in AllAfrica. Story by Obinna Anyadike. Satellite imagery is increasingly being used by human rights organisations to fact check claims that otherwise would be difficult...
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Dangote Does PR For African Private Sector At Davos
Intra-Africa trade and travel leaves a lot to be desired — if you’re African, that is — according to Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote. But if you’re American, you have more freedom to move around...
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Pope Francis To Make His First Papal Visit To Africa
Pope Francis announced this week he will make his first visit to Africa later this year with stops in Uganda and the Central African Republic, WorldNetworkTV reports. The number of Catholics in Africa...
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Egypt’s New President Garners Support For Economic Reform
Following former president Mohamed Morsi’s ousting in 2013, investments made under his command fell through according to a report by CCTV Africa. The country’s new president, Abdel Fatah el-Sisi, is...
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City Guide: Giza, Egypt
Located about 20 km (12.5 miles) south of Cairo along the Nile River, Giza is the third largest city in Egypt and home to 3 million people. The primary reason visitors come to Giza lies at the western...
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Insight: Building Tourism In Soweto, A New Frontier
Do a Google search of Soweto hotels and you’ll probably come up with a list of four hotels. Two of them are guest houses and one is a bed-and-breakfast. The bottom line — Soweto has one hotel.It’s a...
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6 Winners and 6 Losers From Matchday 1 of the AFCON
Yaya Toure - Cote D'Ivoire: Africa’s gentle giant, who won his fourth consecutive Glo-CAF player of the year award earlier this month, simply can’t seem to imprint his influence on most matches in...
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15 Ancient Super Plants That Could Eradicate Africa’s Food Crisis
Our human diets consist for the most part of 12 plant species, but primitive humans had some 100,000 edible plant species at their disposal. At the 1996 World Summit, 10,000 participants agreed that,...
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