Browsing: Covid-19 pandemic

While bitcoin is oft-touted as “digital-gold,” it sold off the hardest when the pandemic hit.…

By mid this year, a lot was going on in Africa especially with the covid-19 pandemic which was eclipsing many other issues on the continent no matter the importance.…

The Nigerian economy may see a dip into recession, announced by the World Bank, in 2020, the worst the African country has seen in 40 years. This was largely due to the effects of the fall in the global price of oil, a commodity the nation‘s economy is heavily reliant on, and the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, that nearly crippled not just Nigeria’s, but the global economy.  

But these challenges were not the only catalysts for Nigeria’s imminent recession, issues around insecurity, infrastructural deficit, trade barriers, and power supply challenges all form a crude mix that has managed to drive the country down this very path.  

Since the election of the Buhari’s administration in 2015, a lot more focus has been placed on driving local content and boosting local production, particularly in the agriculture sector. This was also in line to make the Nigerian economy …

The economic disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has slowed the region’s growth projection to 1.2 per cent for 2020.…

Uganda’s real GDP growth is projected to hover below 2 per cent in 2020 compared with the almost 5.6 per cent in 2019.…

Kenya is the major exporter and importer of the East African Community (EAC) accounting for an estimated 46 per cent of exports and 41 per cent of imports in the region…

With climate and environmental shocks continually threatening food supplies and locusts still ravaging crops in East Africa, the situation could get worse unless adequate and timely attention is given to it.…

Rwanda is positioning its coffee strategically for the world with the country widening its scope…

Some of the PPEs Kijenzi is producing include face shields and other physical distancing aids like door openers.…

Desperate times call for desperate measures and with Kenya’s flower sector hit hard by covid-19, it is time that the country sought ways to maintain relationships with its key markets.

The first gesture by the Kenya flower sector has been to send some 300 bouquets to the United Kingdom in what was called “solidarity with covid-19 frontline combatants” in a campaign dubbed Flowers For Hope.

Kenya’s national carrier Kenya Airways (KQ) flew the consignment on Friday night last week in a move set to keep the flower market open for business when the coronavirus pandemic passes.

The flowers to be distributed to those in the frontline of combating the pandemic including doctors, nurses and recovering patients and care homes were in sleeves inscribed with President Uhuru Kenyatta’s goodwill message.

Kenyatta’s message read, “There have been a few moments in history when the world has faced a crisis as far-reaching …