An ILO global programme that seeks to improve the productivity of SMEs, launched in Ghana during 2011, is coming to a close with the implementation of Phase III which ends this year.
Funded from the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs of Switzerland (SECO) and Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD),...
The office of Dr Jose-Manuel Pinto Monteiro, the lead lawyer for Venezuelan businessman, Alex Saab in Cape Verde says he is disappointed about the extent of interference the government, particularly the office of the prime minister, Ulisses Correia is having in their work.
They expressed the sentiments after news of...
African e-commerce group Jumia’s revenues slid by 10% in the second quarter, dashing hopes that lockdowns aimed at stemming the spread of the new coronavirus would lead to a flood of online orders.
Still, the loss-making company highlighted an 8% rise in orders and ongoing cost cuts that its co-CEO...
The Africa CEO Forum’s in partnership with IFC, will host its first-ever virtual gathering to bring together private sector CEOs, leading experts, and policymakers, high-profile business executives, investors, and government ministers to discuss the future of Africa’s private sector in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The three-day event will...
The management of the Autonomous Port of Lome has applauded the ECOWAS Commission for efforts and progress made on the construction of the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor Highway Development Project thus far, in order to improve trade and transport infrastructure in West Africa to enhance overall economic development in the region.
Welcoming...
Not one to let disruptive circumstances slow him down, former president of Nigeria and Eminent Fellow of the African Youth and Governance Convergence (AYGC), Olusegun Obasanjo, graced what has been termed as the Biggest Convergence of Africa’s Youth with words of wisdom.
As the Keynote Speaker for this year’s AYGC...
Since South Africa went into lockdown four weeks ago to slow the spread of the coronavirus, hairdresser Nasreen Pillay has had no income. Without a job contract, she cannot apply for government aid either.
“If my mother and father-in-law did not help me, I would be going hungry,” Pillay, a...
Africa gas market tiny but growing fast
Electricity generation is main growth driver
Unified pricing system tough in undeveloped markets
Africa should develop a gas pricing index based on the cost of electricity set midway between existing global benchmarks to ensure fairer pricing in new export projects on the...
The Dynamic Governance Actions Opportunity for the Democratic Republic of Congo, (DGAOD for DRC), a citizen movement in the DRC has kicked against what it describes as “neocolonialism” by some international Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs).
In a statement signed by Henri Mutombo of the DGAOD, the group said some international NGOs...
The African continent is mostly connected by land, as there are approximately 110 inter-state boundaries in Africa with so many inter-state borders running through the length and breadth of the continent. This stems from the colonial rationale of African political geography, which has resulted in the present-day Africa with...