A recycling plant in Tanzania’s port city of Dar es Salaam has traded paper for plastic bottles and started making anti-coronavirus face shields that are being snatched up by hospitals and health centres nationwide.
Until earlier this year, Zaidi Recyclers had a thriving business in processing waste paper which it...
Kenya’s private sector activity inched up in May after falling sharply a month earlier because of restrictions to curb the spread of coronavirus, but conditions are expected to worsen in coming months, a survey showed on Thursday.
The Markit Stanbic Bank Kenya Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) came in at 36.7,...
In between her shifts, Zimbabwean nurse Sinothando Mpofu used to go to Bulawayo’s open-air markets to buy tomatoes and cabbages for her family of nine - until the country’s coronavirus lockdown closed all stalls.
Mpofu worried about where she would get fresh food, until she saw a message in her...
Recently a Nigerian friend who lives in the country that is also Africa’s biggest economy, after eating the popular Ghanaian snack “nkatie burgher”, posted on facebook, “How many countries can successfully export air to other countries?”
This did not come as a shock as I know that Africans have a...
The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, has registered his support for head of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Dr. Akinwumi Adesina for his re-election, despite a US call for him to face a fresh ethics probe.
Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, a former Nigerian minister for Agriculture, is...
Afreximbank is teaming up with International Trade Centre, ITC, to train small-business owners and young entrepreneurs in Africa to trade with other African countries as part of the new African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
The training programme - How to Export within the AfCFTA - is being launched as the...
Africa is a key territory on the global map. Rich in oil and natural resources, the continent holds a strategic position. Rich in oil and natural resources, Africa is the world’s fastest-growing region for foreign direct investment. It has approximately 30 percent of the earth’s remaining mineral resources.
It is...
Ivory Coast said last week it would refuse to validate a U.S.-sponsored report due to be published this month about child labour in its cocoa sector unless the researchers and U.S. government accept changes to the methodology.
The report, which is funded by the U.S. Labor Department and scheduled to...
South Africa will allow most economic sectors including mining and manufacturing to fully resume operations from today as the country further eases coronavirus lockdown regulations, the government said last week Thursday.
Africa’s most industrialized economy has been largely shut since a nationwide lockdown began in late March. South Africa has...
We are living in unprecedented times. COVID-19 has swept throughout the world, and governments globally have taken drastic measures to stop the spread in an attempt to save lives.
In February 2020, as African countries watched Asia and Europe begin the implementation of lockdown, a study by Survey54, an automated...