Want to achieve quick time-to-value on your digital transformation efforts while still building toward greater future capabilities? This is what you need to know.     Organisations have experienced immense disruption over the past year. Many have had to reinvent their operating models, their product or service offerings and, in some cases,...
General Electric is to cut 12,000 jobs in its power business, 18% of the division's global workforce. The US industrial group expects the "painful but necessary" job losses to help save $1bn next year as demand for fossil fuel power plants wanes. GE intends to cut 1,100 jobs from its UK...
Many Venezuelan protestors stormed the streets in different cities throughout the country on Sunday, January 31, 2021, to demand the release of special envoy and businesses man, Alex Saab. The over 200,000 protesters took the action following comments by the Prime Minister of Cape Verde, Ulisses Correia, that his country...
Many African Countries such as Sudan, Ethiopia, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Tunisia, Mali, Mozambique, Morocco, Mauritania, Niger, Eritrea, Algeria, Sudan, Benin, Rwanda, Chad, Kenya and Libya have been counted among thirty (30) countries globally that are facing threats of the effect of climate change. It is reported that these countries are...
Participants at a webinar to present the African Development Bank’s African Economic Outlook Supplement to Asian audiences on Monday have endorsed the report as critical for post-COVID-19 Africa. The supplement revises the growth projections and outlook for Africa for 2020 and 2021 and highlights the impact of COVID–19 on Africa’s...
Countries may ban the exportation of certain commodities from time to time. It is not an altogether uncommon thing to do, and it may occur for several different reasons. The length of time a commodity may remain banned is entirely relative to the reason or reasons it was banned for,...
Five African Former Heads of State who attended the 7th African Leadership Forum in Accra last week, with the theme ‘Promoting Intra-African Trade to Unlock Agricultural Potential in Africa’, took time off their busy schedules to plant trees at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre’s (KAIPTC) ‘Peace Garden’...
By Joshua Worlasi AMLANU & Ebenezer Chike Adjei NJOKU President Nana Akufo-Addo has stressed the importance of embracing technological advancements to drive prosperity across the continent. In his remarks as the 3i Summit opened in Accra – with policymakers, investors and innovators from across Africa united in their ambition to harness...
By Emmanuel AKOMEA The Alliance of African Multilateral Financial Institutions (AAMFI) has jointly dedicated a US$62 billion fund to address the continent's critical trade and investment gaps. The Alliance aims to collaborate to address Africa’s development finance needs, promote the interests of member states, advocate for Africa on global finance issues,...
Businesses in the Upper West regional capital have been urged to add value to their products so as to enable them take advantage of burgeoning opportunities in the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Implementing the AfCFTA is expected to deepen trade between countries on the continent and help sustain government’s industrialisation agenda...