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Anglo American, the mining behemoth took the decision on May 7th, 2021 to divest from its South African thermal coal…

Africa is also moving to mechanize agriculture offering another avenue for heavy investment for technology-rich UAE. Investing in mechanizing Africa’s farms also goes to investing in the world’s food security and alleviating poverty, all of which are priority UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 

Then you have the energy and mineral sectors; Africa, and in particular East Africa, has been the site for the world’s most recent offshore oil and gas discoveries. The potential is immense; however, here we must point out the equally lucrative and much more sustainable opportunity to invest in renewable energy. Africa offers vast expanses of huge wind and solar potential that can be harnessed to power the continent and beyond. 

Kenya has strategically managed to tap into the lucrative United Arab Emirates (UAE) tourism market. With less than five hours’ flight…

The government of Zimbabwe through its ministry of mines and mineral development expressed its intent to create and develop…

Many years ago I used to bring small groups of troubled Britons to Uganda to help with some of the charitable construction…

In a previous article, it was established from research that private investors globally have at least US$500 billion in funds…

The full blossom of the African girl child still has miles to go, with many girls still bearing the brunt of…

Across the region, agriculture has been a crucial economic activity that has to levitate communities’ economies and promote some major changes, in farmer’s lives. 

Farming has changed significantly over the past decade. This change has not occurred or is being adopted evenly across the globe. Europe, North, South America, and Asia have been developing and utilizing agriculture mechanization quite fast. 

However, the latter has not been active in sub-Saharan Africa for a while. For the record, farming practices present during the 1960s when most of Africa, was liberating itself from colonial hands, are largely being divorced currently. 

A brief conversation with Dr. Tomás Matola, CEO of BNI Mozambique Development Bank  For decades, Dubai has been an inspiration to African leaders…

A lot has been written about the case for investing in Africa.  Many journalists and economists have eulogized about the…