Articles in Business & Economy
Indian telecommunications provider Bharti Airtel completed its acquisition of the African assets of Zain, Kuwait’s biggest phone company, the Indian operator’s chairman, Sunil Mittal, announced in New Delhi Tuesday, Bloomberg News reported.
The deal, first …
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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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 …
YouTube is officially launching a localized version of the popular video site in South Africa. This custom site will provide South Africans a unique view of the largest video sharing site in the world by …
KOVIN Naidoo is a busy man. He has just got back from the World Economic Forum on Africa held in Tanzania, where he has helped establish eight eye clinics to date, and where he was …
Cheetah Blog Comment: This is the kind of reporting that should be done more often about the continent.
Downtown Nairobi is in stark contrast to the images of famine and war that often represent …
“Europe possibly needs an Afribond,” commented one contributor this week on the Thomson Reuters chatroom for fixed income markets in Kenya.
A nice quip from Henry Kirimania of The Cooperative Bank of Kenya and a …
“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 …
Russian private investment bank Renaissance Capital expects its 2010 Africa revenue to double after buying South African broker BJM Securities as it looks to tie up equities deals of up to $1 billion in Africa.
RenCap …
