Africa Archive
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Kenya is trying to turn the page after it elected the controversial Uhuru Kenyatta as president.
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Rising terrorism attacks on Africa's infrastructure are raising the region's risk levels and leading to concerns among international companies.
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Twelve of the 20 countries in the world with the greatest electricity access deficit are in Africa, underlining the scale of the power problem in the continent.
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Sentiment has turned negative in South Africa. The continent's largest economy is reeling after dismal new figures revealed a lackluster first quarter.
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African Union celebrated its 50th year in late May as the continent shows signs of standing up on its feet and commencing its next phase of development.
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The United Nations (UN) and World Bank launched a USD 1 billion initiative on May 22 in the Great Lakes region in Central and Eastern Africa to foster
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Guinea has the world's largest reserves of bauxite - an ore crucial for the development of aluminum
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International companies have been drawn to Mozambique lately due to the country's recently discovered natural gas reserves.
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Analysts are raving about Nigeria as it emerges as one of the most promising economies in the world.
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Resource-rich African and Middle East countries are failing to manage their natural riches effectively and are governing their resource companies poorly, according to the Research Watch Institute (RWI).
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The UAE's recent suggestion that Africa should develop agriculture free zones highlights how food-importing states view the continent's great natural bounties.
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Africa needs to invest USD 93 billion each year to meet its infrastructure needs, but the continent suffers from a financing shortfall of USD 48 billion.
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Abraaj Capital is close to making major investments in the Ivory Coast (or Côte d'Ivoire), as the nation emerges from a decade-long civil conflict and participate in the
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Nigeria's vast economy has many moving parts - in fact 36 of them.
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Bond investors lapped up Rwanda's debut EUR 400 million bond in their quest for higher yield.
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Lagos in Nigeria and Nairobi in Kenya can offer global retailers new revenue opportunities in an increasingly saturated consumer world.
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Tunisia, ground zero of the Arab Spring, is struggling under the weight of expectations...
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The Gulf region's fingerprints are all over the economic fortunes of a small African country.
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Libya's economic figures are the envy of the world, but the country teeters on the edge of dysfunction.
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UAE's Masdar Energy went against the grain by inaugurating a 15-megawatt solar photovoltaic facility in the West African state of Mauritania - the largest project of its kind
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More than 45 Africa-focused private equity funds are looking to raise USD 12 billion funds to invest in the continent..
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A quarter of the countries in the Sub-Saharan Africa region posted growth exceeding 7% last year, underscoring the region's economic boom.
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Mauritania, lodged between Morocco and Guinea on the African bulge in the West, is just the latest African country being eyed by energy companies.
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It's an Africa investor's worst nightmare: a country that has enjoyed relative peace and quiet for at least two decades, suddenly returning to its old ways and descending
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Chinese-African trade may nearly double in three years from USD 198.5 billion in 2012 to USD 385 billion by 2015
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With 54% of the world's platinum production, 78% of diamond and 20% of gold output, why should Africa look elsewhere for growth?
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The Egyptian economy appears to be free falling as crisis after crisis seems to chip away at business confidence.
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TweetAfrica will emerge as one of the “strongest areas of GDP growth” by 2040, according to ExxonMobil in its latest energy outlook. CONTINUE READING DanieVDM / Foter.com /
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There is a reason why the European Union picked Morocco as the first North African country to begin its free trade agreement negotiations with last week.
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With growth stalling at home, South African banks are increasingly looking across the border for growth, but their ventures abroad could come at a price
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It may be a bit difficult to find Rwanda on the map as it's lodged between much larger neighbors, but it has emerged as a standout economy in
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More than 40,000 new rooms across 207 hotels are currently being built by African hotel developers, according to estimates by a hospitality consultancy.
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Expected to overtake South Africa as the continent's largest economy in a few years, Nigeria recently launched Eko Atlantic City, a Dubai-style offshore five-million-square-kilometer leisure, tourism and residential
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When you feel prosperous, start building cities. And so it is for Nigeria.
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Tired of western dominance in global financial circles, the key emerging economies are forging a new parallel path by discussing plans for a new development bank.
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There is a reason why the European Union picked Morocco as the first North African country to begin its free trade agreement negotiations with last week.
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Can the US dollar ever be displaced? With its biggest rival euro in the doldrums and the Chinese renminbi nowhere near a currency of global standing, the American
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China pushing its influence deep in Sub Saharan Africa, getting a head-start over other capital-exporting regions such as the Middle East, to position themselves in the resource-rich continent.
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Sub Saharan Africa is urbanizing faster than any other region. These are the 30 SSA cities that are driving the continent's growth.
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Massive interest in the West and Eastern African oil and gas deposits means a significant rise in spending on oil and gas resources in the continent.
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Sub-Saharan Africa conjures up images of starving children, famine and corrupt regimes presiding over poor infrastructure.
But that is changing. Fast.
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While neighboring regimes crashed and burned, the Algerian government remained largely unmoved and continues its firm grip on the country.
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Morocco, Egypt, Libya and Algeria are at high risk to a Eurozone meltdown, but Gulf states hardly have reason to be complacent, according to new research.
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Unemployment and corruption persists in Tunisia, with religious tensions also coming to the fore. But is the world expecting too much, too soon from Tunisia? And can Libya's
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Even though the Middle East is awash with sunshine virtually all year around, it has taken a while for solar to start gaining traction.
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It's such a waste: enough sunlight reaches the earth in 90 minutes to provide the entire planet's need for one year, according to the International Energy Agency.
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Due to a host of common denominators in the Arab world including the lack of traditional liberalism, the tribes' power, the elites' control of business, the hold on
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Whether western countries and ME liberals like it or not, Islamic parties have emerged victorious in elections in North African states. Before typecasting and dismissing them, Islamic parties
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Kuwait's Finance Minister warns that the state's rising wages and subsidies bill could lead to the devaluation of the dinar and compel the state to sell off assets
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The Arab Spring not only cost at least three dictators their jobs but also $56-billlion in lost GDP for the worst affected countries, according to a statistical study
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As Tunisia prepares for elections in October, the chronic and fundamental weaknesses in the country's political and economic structures are becoming evident
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You won't find Anas Sefrioui on the Forbes richest list
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TweetSpring is nearly six months old. It is time to take stock, remember those who lost their lives and continue to fight, and hand out some well-deserved awards
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TweetIn a landmark speech the Moroccan king offered to reduce his powers under a new more democratic Constitution. Can this overture quell political descent and serve as a
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TweetClose to $1.6-trillion worth of projects are cancelled or are on hold in the Middle East and East North African market, with $800-billion in the UAE alone, according
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TweetJordan and Morocco’s possible inclusion in the Gulf is a political move rather than an economic one, but there might be other - unlikely - candidates in the
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TweetMiddle East’s oil-importing countries such as Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia and Syria could fall into recession this year, according to the International Institute of Finance (IIF), a group of
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TweetThe rulers and royal families of the Arab World directly control more than $240-billion of investments in publicly-listed firms, surpassing SWF and government institutions, according to data. Read
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TweetWhich countries are ‘ripe for a revolution’ and is there a likelihood that the people of the Arab World will be able to shake the very foundations of
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