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FROM McKinsey Quarterly:
Africa faces many challenges, particularly in health care, water, and climate. Yet what is surprising is that these issues can all be ameliorated or even controlled. This package of …
Economies are growing, émigrés returning and attitudes towards corruption beginning to change. Jonathan Dimbleby reports on a continent in transition .
Again and again, at every level, people told …
A Chatam House report states that:
African countries are playing a more strategic role in inter-national affairs. Global players that understand this and develop greater diplomatic and trade relations with African states will be …
Foreign consumer-goods companies including Coca-Cola Co., Nestlé SA and Unilever PLC have been in Africa for decades without much competition from local players. Now, home-grown companies are expanding aggressively across the continent, …
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Africa may still be suffering from a chronic brain drain but some of the continent’s elite are turning their backs on the West and taking their talents back home according to film-maker Andy …
Zambian-born economist, Dambisa Moyo, talks about her new book, ‘Dead Aid’, and how she believes that stopping the flow of aid to Africa could help the continent escape the cycle of extreme poverty, …
The UN Economic Commission for Africa reports that growth on the continent could top 4.8 per cent in 2010 after dipping by over 2 per cent in 2009.
UNECA and the African Union Commission …
A half-century after much of Africa threw offf its colonial bonds, the continent swells with millions of youth. How leaders channel that potential will determine its future.
Like most Africans nowadays, I was not …
“IT USED to be a badge of pride that we were the only African coffee brand in British supermarkets. Now I see it as shameful,” says Andrew Rugasira, the founder of …
