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Africa and South America: A new world order confirmed
Several African leaders were on the Island of Margarita in northern Venezuela over the weekend for the second Africa-South America summit. Among them: Muammar...
Obama and African leaders talk about challenges facing the continent
An Africa that is prosperous and at peace is vital to the interests of the United States and the rest of the world, President...
U.S.-Africa Business Summit explores tremendous growth potential
American and African entrepreneurs and investors will meet face to face to develop relationships and to establish and expand business, trade and investment ties...
World Bank’s 2010 doing business index: Ghana can do better!
Ghana sadly slipped five places from (the 87th position to 92nd, losing 5 places) in the World Bank’s 2010 doing business index. The index...
G20: Bonus for the poor?
All the focus at the G20’s meeting in Pittsburgh this week will be on bankers’ bonuses. But there are other credit-crunch issues that affect...
Burkina Faso: Investors snatch up shares despite meltdown
The surprise success of the first-ever sale of corporate stocks to the public in Burkina Faso has forced a rethink about African attitudes to...
United States: Africa poised to see robust economic growth in coming years
Although total U.S. trade with sub-Saharan Africa declined in the first four months of 2009 compared with the same period in 2008, largely as...
Trade: Africa must play smart with Asia not just submit to partner strategies!
Africa’s success in avoiding the worst of the economic crisis that has swept the industrialized world has been due in large part to the...
Ethiopia-Israel: Avigdor Lieberman meets Meles Zenawi to promote commerce
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Avigdor Lieberman, accompanied by 23 Israeli business personalities are expected to hold talks with Ethiopian...
Ethiopia prepares to produce, consume and export bio-fuel
A new bio-fuel share company, expected to raise a capital of 250 million birr from interested parties, is set to start cultivating and extracting...
Road to recession recovery: What about Africa?
Has the world economic crisis reached bottom or is Africa facing continued recession and deepening poverty? “No one can tell with any degree of...
Africa becomes the world’s food basket at what cost?
With increasing food price crisis, western and eastern countries short of arable land, such as Canada, China, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Kuwait, have...
Algeria: Xenophobia against Chinese on the rise in Africa
Algerian job seekers have blamed their country's widening unemployment scale on the increasing number of Chinese emigrants living in Algeria and working for meager...
The Interim Economic Partnership Agreement: Why Namibia Should Not Sign – Part 2
Recent reports in the media with regards to Namibia’s so-called “reluctance” to sign the interim Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU)...
The Interim Economic Partnership Agreement: Why Namibia Should Not Sign – Part 1
Recent reports in the media with regards to Namibia’s so-called “reluctance” to sign the interim Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU)...
US-Africa: Mrs. Clinton to hone African Growth and Opportunity Act in Kenya
The U.S Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has been scheduled to visit Kenya and speak at the African Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum...
Trade: 1% increase in Africa’s wealth equals 3 times its development aid
Many countries in Asia and Latin America “don’t have even one smidgen of Africa’s natural resources — a country like South Korea, for example...
U.S. – Africa trade: Africa to benefit more from AGOA with a developed manufacturing engine
The primary goal of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) — which was signed into law as part of the larger Trade and...
Obama in Ghana: A symbolic visit that hides a subtle US oil strategy?
Barack Obama has chosen Ghana for his first official trip to sub-Saharan Africa. He is expected Friday evening for a two day visit. Although...
Needy Zimbabwe held hostage by Chinese loan over multi billion dollar resource
Zimbabwe and China have inked a controvesial US$5 billion deal that has mortgaged the country's platinum resources worth US$40 billion. China is set...
Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai to scrap Mugabe’s indigenisation laws to attract more investments
Zimbabwe’s government of national unity plans to scrap indigenisation laws introduced by President Robert Mugabe, in an effort to attract foreign investment and rebuild...
Ethiopian government to return coffee hoarders’ money?
The Ethiopian Government has moved to clear bank credits of six banned coffee exporters who had borrowed money for the purchase of 18,000 tonnes...
Nigeria-Russia: To sign Industrial, Oil, Military agreement
Nigeria and Russia have agreed to cooperate on industrial, economic and military activities. The Russian president Mr. Dmitry Medvedev visits Nigeria for the first...
Ethiopian export industry loses over US $1 billion
Ethiopian export industry has, this year, shifted from the very positive trends of the past few years with a shocking underperformance as exports revenues...
AU must take a closer look, Eritrea’s not the only culprit
Countries across the African continent devoted May 25 to the observance of the so called African Union’s Day. Few countries, though, have declared the...
Ethiopia: Coffee dealers up in arms confront PM Zenawi
Foreign buyers of Ethiopian special coffee beans have expressed their concern over the introduction of a new auctioning system related to the trading of...
Europe’s abusive EPA condemned as it tears Africa apart
The Economic Partnership Agreement, EPA continues to cause controversy and division among African regional block groupings. After the recent criticism of the European agreement...
Zimbabwe: Rejecting success and a few hopeful ones
Nearly every country in the world has experienced economic growth over the past decade, even accounting for the current recession. Zimbabweans, however have watched...
Africa’s time bomb: Youth employment and population
The global economic meltdown brings the increasingly problematic issue of unemployment and underemployment of young people in Africa to the fore. Economists from the...
Ethiopian sesame production rakes in massive benefits
Ethiopia, Africa's largest sesame exporter, sold 1.18 million birr worth of sesame on the first day of trading through a new electronic trading system...