Forbes, by Miriam Tuerk Expanding network connectivity across sub-Saharan Africa will open up digital services that many of us now take for granted. Mobile Banking, Whatsapp Chatting and video, e-health, e-education are key services only possible with reliable internet connectivity. For a geographically disparate population, it will mean greater access to essential services, including e-agri […]
Stagflation has been predicted so many times this year that it’s easy to think economists are crying wolf. But how often do you have the US President sitting down with the Federal Reserve Chair and the US Treasury Secretary admitting she was wrong in her assessment of inflation, and warnings that the world faces an […]
BBC For critics of US President Donald Trump, escalating tensions between two long-standing American allies, Egypt and Ethiopia, over a mega-dam on a tributary of the River Nile marks the biggest diplomatic failure of his administration in Africa. Mr Trump said last week that Egypt might “blow up” the Ethiopian-built dam, despite boasting in January […]
The African Report By Rémy Darras Against the backdrop of an explosion of demand for hydrocarbons, the Swiss trader Trafigura signed a contract with Somaliland to both supplies and invest in its port infrastructure. The race to supply Ethiopia with hydrocarbons is on-going. While Djiboutian authorities laid the foundation stone for the jetty of the future […]
African Business Magazine, by Ian Lewis Africa’s leaders are learning to love off-grid renewable energy. What used to be seen as, at best, an adjunct to large-scale thermal and hydro-based national grid supply is now being recognized as a major weapon in the drive to provide electricity access to all Africans. The adjustment from policies based […]
World Economic Forum By Tony Blair Over the next 30 years, Sub-Saharan Africa’s population will double to over two billion, and its economies will industrialize. Africa’s development will therefore be critical to the world’s future stability, prosperity, and health. Given this, the continent should be receiving much more international attention. The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted […]
Xinhua China’s successful poverty alleviation model is instructive for Africa in its efforts to grow economies and lift millions out of poverty, an Ethiopian expert has said. “The Chinese model is not just lifting people out of poverty, but both the country’s GDP and its development are going in sync with the poverty alleviation program,” […]
US Embassy The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in partnership with the Ministry of Health, announced the launch of the new USAID Digital Health Activity to continue investments in digital information solutions to further strengthen the country’s health system and improve the quality of services. USAID Mission Director Sean Jones […]
In line with ECA’s campaign on the structural transformation of the economies of Central Africa, CEMAC countries have just adopted a five-year post-COVID-19 recovery plan that prioritizes industrialization and economic diversification. (ECA) – CEMAC member States plan to make industrialization and economic diversification a key to the zone’s second-generation economic programmes and the post-COVID-19 economic recovery […]
VOXEU By Xinshen Diao, Mia Ellis, Margaret McMillan, Dani Rodrik Before Covid-19 struck, many economies in sub-Saharan Africa were expanding rapidly – faster than at any time since independence. Yet African growth accelerations were anomalous when viewed from the perspective of comparative development patterns; structural changes were accompanied by declining within-sector productivity growth in modern […]
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