The African Diaspora International Film Festival’s New York Season Opens
The African Diaspora International Film Festival (ADIFF)’s 23rd season is under way in New York City with new and innovative features to present yet...
Canal+ and iROKO to Launch Francophone Africa’s First SVOD Mobile Android App
Canal Plus Group S.A., a global media and content production and distribution group based in France, and iROKO, Africa’s largest Internet TV operator and...
President Obama Will Score One for Entrepreneurs When He Goes to Kenya in July
The White House announced today that President Obama will travel to Kenya in July to hold bilateral meetings and participate in the Global Entrepreneurship...
Sanitation/Hygiene—U.S. Business Partnerships—Bilateral Cooperation—Oil & Gas PPPs—Manufacturing—Retail/Industrial Development
Sanitation/Hygiene
Ghana loses about US$232 million annually in productivity because of poor sanitation and hygiene services, according to the World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Program....
The BRVM, SMEs, Local Investors & Foreign Holdings
Africa’s top-performing securities exchange, the Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières, wants to create a mini bond exchange where small and medium-size enterprises can raise...
Mercer Deems Luanda the Costliest City for Expats
Luanda, Angola’s capital city, is world’s the costliest location for expatriates, ahead of such cities as New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Geneva, Switzerland, according...
The US Steps Up Its Economic Game in Africa
One day after President Barack Obama announced a groundbreaking initiative to double access to power in sub-Saharan Africa, he launched Trade Africa, a partnership...
Robot Traffic Cops
(A column highlighting scientific, technological, engineering and design innovation in Africa)
Engineers at the Higher Institute of Applied Techniques in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo,...
Five Challenges Of Doing Business in Africa
In a move to diversify their supply chain around the world, U.S. apparel and footwear companies, including manufacturers and retailers, increasingly are looking to...
Banks Eye Africa’s Millionaire Boom
The number of millionaires in Africa continues to grow, prompting a race among banks to capture the continent’s emerging demand wealth management and private...
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Sino-Africa Relations: An Elder’s View
I am sick and tired of being sick and tired of complaints that China is taking advantage of Africans even as it provides money...
