Namibia’s April Inflation Surpasses 5.9% Estimate
Namibia’s April inflation rate racheted up to 5.9 percent,higher than the 5.6 percent estimate. According to the Namibia Statistics Agency, the Namibia Consumer Price Index (CPI) also grew by 1.0 index...
View ArticleAngola Begins First Post-Colonial Census
More than 90,000 officials have been deployed across the country, which is recovering from 27 years of war. The process is reported to have started smoothly in the capital, Luanda. Following fears that...
View ArticleLibya Establishes No-Fly Zone Over Benghazi
From Business Standard The Libyan interim government set up a no-fly zone in an effort to calm down the clashes in Benghazi as militia leader Khalifa Haftar declared to continue his assault. The...
View ArticleMali Declares War With Tuareg Separatists After 30 Civil Servants Abduction
Mali’s prime minister said on Sunday his country was at war with Tuareg separatists after the rebels attacked a northern town he was visiting, killing eight soldiers and abducting around 30 civil...
View ArticleLesotho Becomes 57th Country To Join The African Legal Support Facility
From Africa Star Lesotho has joined the African Legal Support Facility (ALSF) to become the 57th country to be part of the group.The ALSF was created in 2010 to assist African countries in commercial...
View ArticleUS Congratulates The New President Of Malawi
From Business Standard The US government has offered congratulations to Malawi’s new President Peter Mutharika, hailing active and peaceful elections. Mutharika, the brother of the late president Bingu...
View ArticleNigeria´s Access Bank Pulls London Listing
From Sunday Express One of Africa’s biggest commercial banks, Access is valued at more than £700 million. A source said: “The bank hired a new chief executive last year and he is very qualified to...
View ArticleMauritius Seeks Business Opportunities In The North
From allAfrica The Deputy Prime Minister of Mauritius, Charles Xavier-Luc Duval, has observed that the Northern Region had greater business opportunities that the Mauritius private sector could venture...
View ArticleNamibia´s Marine Phosphate Mining May Get $1B Investment
From iOL Namibia is set to review a temporary ban on marine phosphate mining once a environmental study is completed, paving the way for investments of more than $1 billion in the industry. The...
View ArticleSenegal Gets $35M From African Development Bank For Road Project
From Star Africa The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has earmarked $35 million for a road rehabilitation project in Senegal which will also create jobs for the country’s youth and women, The AfDB...
View ArticleSeychelles Must Improve Business Environment: Vice President Danny Faure
From Seychelles News Agency Seychelles’ business climate needs to improve to ensure continued economic growth, the Indian Ocean islands’ Vice President Danny Faure said when opening the 2014 National...
View ArticleZimbabwe Debuts Solar Street Lighting Program
At least 15 Zimbabwean cities and towns will benefit from a $2-million government program to install solar street lights as the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority and local authorities in the...
View ArticleAfrica Needs To Address Poverty, Says IMF
From Standard Digital Africa is “taking off” with strong, steady growth but poverty is unacceptably high, head of International Monetary Fund (IMF) Christine Lagarde has warned. Given the scenario,...
View ArticleSouth Africa´s New Government?
From Economist The joke circulating on social media is that South Africa’s cabinet is growing faster than its economy. Figures released on May 27th showed that GDP shrank in the three months ending in...
View Article10 Best States For Working Moms
The personal finance site WalletHub.com released a new survey that lists the best and worst states in the U.S. for working mothers. The rankings are based on an analysis of nine different metrics that...
View ArticleHow International Brands Are Tapping Into Africa’s Artisans
One of Africa’s underdeveloped but growing workforces – the artisan community – has caught the eye of the international fashion industry, TheGuardian reports. Brands are tapping into the potential of...
View ArticleLargest Seed Company in Zimbabwe Ups Investments to Join Global Market
From The Herald Via All Africa Zimbabwe’s largest seed company, Seed Co Private Limited plans to invest about $6 million towards research and importation of new technology by 2015 as the company...
View ArticleIs The Honeymoon Over For Africa’s Debt Markets?
Written by Jake Bright | From Quartz Is the honeymoon over for Africa’s debt markets? So said the Financial Times last week (paywall). It argued that the region’s economic boom is coming back to bite...
View ArticleReligious Freedom Across Africa: The Worst Of The Worst
On May 15, a 27 year old pregnant woman named Meriam Ibrahim was sentenced to death by hanging in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. What crimes warranted Ibrahim’s horrific sentence? Treason? Multiple...
View ArticlePeter Mutharika Sworn In As Malawi’s New President
Peter Mutharika, a former foreign minister, was sworn in as Malawi’s new president on Saturday after defeating former President Joyce Banda in a bitter and chaotic election. Mutharika, the brother of...
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