President Kenyatta reassures UK’s investors , urges them to make Nairobi their regional Hub
Kenya’s President Kenyatta in the sidelines of the Somalia Conference hosted by the UK Government took time to reassure key firms who have invested billions into Kenya’s economy of his Government’s commitment to investment protection. The president highlighted Kenya’s milestone in creating investor friendly environment and his More...
The Potential Of Diaspora Bonds In Africa
Source: RogueChiefs NO money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.” – Samuel Johnson. This equivocal statement may ring true for over 30 million Africans in the diaspora. According More...
The new face of farming: youth making agribusiness ‘cool’!
Botswana’s Mavis Nduchwa, 33, owns an animal feed farm that grows grains and legumes By: IhuomaAtanga Run a quick Google search on African women making it in business, and you will rarely find a young woman More...
Youth dividend or ticking time bomb
Africa Renewal As the African Union marks 2017 as the Year of Harnessing the Demographic Dividend Through Investments in Youth, this special edition looks at the many challenges and opportunities facing Africa’s More...
East Africa’s Oil Ambitions Tested by Pipeline Machinations
A decade after its first big oil find, East Africa’s emergence as a crude exporter has been hindered by security and cost concerns that left the region building two pipelines instead of one. Uganda and Kenya are More...
Tech Nation Kenya launches M -Akiba, a mobile app to buy Government Bonds
Kenya has become the first country to exclusively sell government bonds to citizens via their mobile phones, as it seeks new ways of raising money. The country is already a pioneer in the use of mobile money. The More...
Vodafone Slams Proposed Split of Kenyan M-Pesa as `Ridiculous
Lawmaker proposes hewing mobile money into separate unit Price controls seen stifling investment in Safaricom Safaricom Ltd, East Africa’s biggest mobile-phone company, would have to reconsider future More...
New Business Opportunities Through Government Tenders
African companies to bid for contracts around the world (By Doyeun Kim). Public procurement is fast becoming big business in Africa. It accounts for almost a third of the gross domestic product (GDP) in poor More...
East Africa attracts more investors as rest of continent suffers
The Foreign Direct Investment, FDI, to East Africa grew last year in contrast to an overall drop across Africa from $87 billion to $66.5 billion. A new report by Analyse Africa shows that 705 projects were supported More...
Trump’s victory is bad – for Africa and for global stability
The most forceful message being sent by a Donald Trump victory is that the American electorate has repudiated the policies and political practices of the past – at least – eight years. The second message is More...
