From Promoting Economic Pluralism
An event titled, “Exploring the African Continental Free Trade Area and the Resilient Economic Recovery” and organised by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and Tulip Consulting, centred on exploring the resilient …
Trade Experts Highlight Role for AfCFTA in Economic Recovery of African Continent Read More
Sal (Cabo Verde) – Cabo Verde President José Maria Neves on Thursday joined the development community in calling for urgent universal vaccine access as a way to mitigate the impact …
Development community calls for universal vaccine access Read More
Algerian Foreign Affairs Minister Ramtane Lamamra’s announcement on August 24, 2021 of a new break in diplomatic relations with Morocco, is another setback for free trade and free movement on …
Algeria-Morocco Rift a Blow to Africa’s Free Trade Hopes Read More
Facebook Inc. and some of the world’s largest telecommunications carriers, China Mobile Ltd. and MTN Group Ltd., are set to build a wider-than-earlier planned giant sub-sea cable in Africa. The companies …
Facebook, telecom carriers to expand undersea cable network in Africa Read More
Despite being only 10 years old, South Sudan has already been beset by economic challenges, bitter disputes with its neighbours and the remnants of a five-year civil war that claimed almost 400,000 lives. The …
South Sudan Wants to Build a New Capital in a Former Rhino Sanctuary Read More
The Summit brings together Global South governments, political leaders, healthcare workers and vaccine manufacturers from more than twenty countries and follows criticism of the G7’s plan by U.N. aid chief …
Global South countries come together Read More
Surging inflation is undermining the recovery of Africa’s biggest economy, pushing 7 million Nigerians into poverty and encouraging criminality as rising prices deplete already meager incomes, according to the World …
Surging inflation in Nigeria fuels crime wave – World Bank Read More
Kenya is suffering from a financial crisis, and the government has invited the IMF back. But those who survived the IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programmes of the ’80s …
Another IMF Loan Feared For Kenya Read More
COVID-19 shrank economies around the world. However, the crisis presents a unique opportunity for many to rebuild green and potentially bounce back stronger than ever. This opportunity is especially clear …
The circular economy transition is a multi-million opportunity for Africa – here’s why Read More
Anass Bouzid has long held the dream of emigrating to Germany. He’d love to go to Frankfurt, because the German financial hub is where some of his family live, he …
Economic boom in Tangier leaves a few winners and many losers Read More