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Banking

China steps up with $71.6bn bank recapitalisation plan

31 Mar 2025

Ethiopian Airlines Group CFO Mensfin Tasew (left) and AfDB Vice President Nnenna Nwabufo display copies of the signed letter of intent. Standing behind them are Ethiopia’s Finance Minister Ahmed Shide (left) and Bank Group President Dr. Akinwumi Adesina (in bow tie)

Travel

AfDB, Ethiopian Airlines commit to $7.8bn Abusera International mega airport project

27 Mar 2025

Markets & Investment

What does China’s new policy direction mean for investors?

4 Nov 2024

Financial Services

Russia launches crypto mining for global trade

1 Nov 2024

Socal grant applicants queue at the Eerste River Sassa office. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp

Health & Social Welfare

Rules for R370-a-month social grant to be challenged in court in October

Marecia Damons 3 Sep 2024

Source: Biovac.

Emergency Medicine

Ghanaian minister visits Biovac to explore vaccine capabilities

14 Aug 2024

Image source: Nataliya Vaitkevich from

Tax Law

Have your say on tax proposals

2 Aug 2024

Source: Reuters.

Markets & Investment

Yen plunges to 38-year low vs dollar as markets brace for Japan intervention

Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss 27 Jun 2024

Source: Absa Group.

Trends

Exciting times in African debt markets

Lusanda Ndesi and Matome Modiba 3 Apr 2024

Standard Chartered to provide Angola €1.29bn financing for solar infrastructure development

Renewables & Energy Efficiency

Standard Chartered to provide Angola €1.29bn financing for solar infrastructure development

31 Jul 2023

Taxation & Regulation

Yanga Mputa appointed as SA's first female Tax Ombud

3 Jul 2023

Boosting Africa's energy transition - initiatives, funding and investment

Renewables & Energy Efficiency

Boosting Africa's energy transition - initiatives, funding and investment

Kieran Whyte et al. 26 Jun 2023

Image source: Pixabay from

Climate Change

Ireland, Austria donate €3m to Africa Climate Change Fund

9 Feb 2023

Zambia receives 'debt-for-nature' proposal from WWF for restructuring

Environment & Natural Resources

Zambia receives 'debt-for-nature' proposal from WWF for restructuring

Marc Jones and Rachel Savage 19 Jan 2023

Source: Supplied.

Medtech

Saudi Arabia to be the launchpad for new global standard of care

6 Jan 2023

Banking

European Investment Bank to support increased rice production in Liberia

9 Jun 2022

African Development Bank appoints evaluator general

Banking

African Development Bank appoints evaluator general

11 Apr 2022

Coca-Cola Beverages Africa acquires share in Lesotho bottler

FMCG

Coca-Cola Beverages Africa acquires share in Lesotho bottler

10 May 2021

Finance Minister, Tito Mboweni

Budget Speech

MTBPS postponed by a week

14 Oct 2020

The role of policy and regulatory frameworks in driving youth entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship

The role of policy and regulatory frameworks in driving youth entrepreneurship

7 Oct 2020

National Assembly approves Covid-19 tax relief bills

Tax Law

National Assembly approves Covid-19 tax relief bills

26 Aug 2020

Covid-19 aviation standstill hampers Ghana's development efforts

Aviation

Covid-19 aviation standstill hampers Ghana's development efforts

Julia Selman Ayetey 2 Apr 2020

No coordination on macroeconomic policies in Nigeria Red Confidential/shutterstock

Markets & Investment

What Nigeria needs to do to avoid World Bank's worst case scenario

Wale Fatade 20 Jan 2020

Mickael Vogel, director of strategy, African Energy Chamber

Coal, Oil & Gas

Lessons from Chad: Drilling is a no brainer

Mickael Vogel, 13 Sep 2019

South African companies have strengths on which to build on, particularly in telecoms Shutterstock

Markets & Investment

South Africa's new economic proposals highlight the role of services

Justin Visagie 6 Sep 2019

Marketing

Africa's free trade area: the journey begins

23 Aug 2019

Have your say on draft B-BBEE sector code

Employment Equity

Have your say on draft B-BBEE sector code

Issued by SAICA 15 May 2019

Markets & Investment

African countries need to manage the rising power of credit rating agencies

Dr Misheck Mutize 23 Apr 2019

Traffic flows in Mogadishu's Hodan district in 2018. On March 30, 2019 armed men raided the offices of Somalia's Universal TV station. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Feisal Omar.

Media Freedom

Armed men raid Somalia's Universal TV, fire guns in station

15 Apr 2019

Second Regional Learning Forum on Climate Finance under way in Botswana

Climate Change

Second Regional Learning Forum on Climate Finance under way in Botswana

3 Apr 2019

(L-R) Zouhair Chorfi, Secretary general of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, Morocco, newly elected Chair of the bureau of the committee of experts; HE Elsadig Bakheit Elfaki Abdalla, Chair of the outgoing bureau of the committee of experts; Vera songwe, Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa. Credit: United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA).

Research

Digital trade and the economy in Africa

25 Mar 2019

Signing of Franco-Ethiopian cooperation agreements.

Marketing

France and Ethiopia to cooperate in space and economic sectors

15 Mar 2019

Tanzania’s capital, Dar es Salaam. The country is known for its budgetary problems. Shutterstock

Taxation & Regulation

Developing countries would benefit from improved tax collection. What can help

Roberto Ricciuti & Antonio Savoia 15 Mar 2019

Is South Africa ready for a state-owned bank?

Legislation & Regulation

Is South Africa ready for a state-owned bank?

Chantel van Zyl and Rui Lopes 17 Jan 2019

Angolan President João Lourenço

Energy

Angola reforms its oil & gas industry

21 Dec 2018

Angola, Brazil sign oil deal

Energy

Angola, Brazil sign oil deal

22 Oct 2018

ECA launches 5 country profiles in Southern Africa

Research

ECA launches 5 country profiles in Southern Africa

17 Aug 2018

Photo by Fancycrave on Unsplash

Cargo & Storage

The urgent areas of improvement for air cargo industry

3 Jul 2018

Why Demo Africa is taking place in Morocco this year

Tech Startups

Why Demo Africa is taking place in Morocco this year

Tom Jackson 26 Jun 2018

Sudan cracks down on social media activity

Social Media

Sudan cracks down on social media activity

7 May 2018

Tourism & Travel

Victoria Falls town to be transformed

28 Feb 2018

New excise duty hikes could stifle brandy industry's recovery

FMCG

New excise duty hikes could stifle brandy industry's recovery

27 Feb 2018

Nigeria begins enforcement of 'palletisation of cargoes' January 2018

Cargo & Storage

Nigeria begins enforcement of 'palletisation of cargoes' January 2018

Kingsley Adeniyi 4 Dec 2017

Neil Palmer (CIAT) via

Agriculture

Can index insurance make African farmers climate-resilient?

Wambi Michael 25 Oct 2017

Kigali, Rwanda. © Dereje Belachew via

Marketing

Africa needs coordinated strategies for urbanisation

25 Oct 2017

Ghana's digital payments leadership

Digital

Ghana's digital payments leadership

28 Sep 2017

Henri Konan Bédié bridge, Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Credit: ppp.gouv.ci.

Marketing

Partnerships at work in Africa

18 Sep 2017

Ghana's AGOA strategy aims to boost growth

Marketing

Ghana's AGOA strategy aims to boost growth

2 Aug 2017