Zimbabwe: Investment Summit Begins
Johannesburg — THE Zimbabwe-South Africa investment and trade conference opens here today, with Harare’s future socio-economic and political environment expected to dominate the deliberations.
The two-day symposium, running under the [...]
AfDB’s African Financial Markets Initiative Launches Website on African Local Currency Bond Markets
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The African Financial Markets Initiative (AFMI), managed by the African Development Bank (AfDB), will launch its website www.africanbondmarkets.org on May 6, 2013.
The AFMI website is designed to be a knowledge management and information [...]
Business Opportunity Seminar – “Boosting African Private Sector Through Financing and Business Opportunities”
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Africa’s Structural Transformation is highly dependent on a strong and competitive private sector.
Boosting African private sector entails providing support in improving the business environment and access to market opportunities; [...]
Egypt: Ministry – Transferring Exports’ Revenues to Banks to Offer Foreign Cash
Minister of Industry and Trade Hatem Saleh said the decision of transferring the exports’ proceeds to Egyptian banks aims at offering foreign cash with the banks and not to impose restrictions on exporters.
The foreign currency to be transferred [...]
Africa: Why Africa Needs Its Own Ivy League Institution
analysis
Africa is suffering from high graduate unemployment and many of its best students and researchers are flocking overseas. Could an African elite university turn this around?
Casual readers of optimistic headlines about Africa’s [...]
Egypt: Industry Minister – New Financing Mechanisms in Cooperation With Banking System
Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade Hatem Saleh said that so far, the problems of 121 faltering factories have been solved through cooperation between the Industry Modernization Centre and the Federation of Egyptian Banks (FEB).
The Minister [...]
Mali: Investing in Mali’s Future
interview
The Vice President of the World Bank for the Africa Region, Makhtar Diop, went to Mali on March 19. What was the outcome of his visit?
Ousmane Diagana : Makhtar Diop has been Vice President of the Africa Region since mid-2012, so [...]
Tanzania: Best Technology in Gas, Oil Crucial
Dodoma — THE government has vowed to ensure ongoing oil and gas exploration activities in the country adhere to strict environmental guidelines.
The Minister of State in the Vice-President’s Office (Union Affairs), Samia Hassan Suluhu, [...]
Zambia: Lumwana Youths Land Entrepreneurship Training
WHEN it comes to corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes, the writing on the wall is very clear for Lumwana Mining Company: there is no sitting back in fulfilling its obligations of improving the social status of the people in the host [...]
East Africa: Kenya Tops in EA 2012 Private Equity Deals
Nairobi — Kenya attracted six private equity deals in 2012, the highest in East Africa, according to the 2013 Deloitte East Africa Private Equity Confidence report.
Private equity is money invested in firms which have not ‘gone public’ [...]
