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Digital development is attracting new Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to Africa. This as overall FDI into Africa is on the decline according to data…
Kenya’s economy grows 5.3% in first quarter, powered by manufacturing…
Dangote Group’s major refinery in East Africa needed deep-water berths…
Zimbabwe has relaxed regulations barring importation of basic commodities to avert shortage of goods ahead…
As of 2021, the value of Brazil-Africa trade was $7.4 billion, being 56 percent drop…
World hunger is not the result of food shortage, and opposition to gene-edited crops, but…
A rising number of informal women traders in border towns are resorting to corruption to…
Kenyan manufacturers have raised concerns over several proposals in the Finance Bill 2023. The country looks forward to the next financial year’s budget that the treasury cabinet secretary will table in June. The country’s National Treasury has proposed several new tax measures. Under these measures, the public and private sectors will cough more taxes to fund the 2023/24 budget.
With tightening monetary policies globally, many African economies are struggling with falling forex reserves. Low…
