Industry

When armed gunmen on March 23 opened fire on worshippers in a church just outside the port city of Mombasa, Kenya, killing six at...

Sub-Saharan Africa was home to 98 million registered mobile money accounts in June 2013, more than twice as many as the total number of...

In remarks in February at Mobile World Congress 2014 in Barcelona, Spain, Virginia “Ginni” Rometty, chairman, president and chief executive officer of IBM, spent...

President Barack Obama’s announcement last June of an initiative to improve access to reliable, affordable and sustainable electrical power for millions of people in...

Africa’s textile industry is a complex one. It has lots of promise, but many factors hinder it from reaching its full potential. In an interview...

If Miao Changxing, deputy director of industrial policy at China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, gets his way, Chinese steel companies could soon...

Construction Trends in Africa By AfSB Staff Deloitte just released its second annual Africa Construction Trends Report, a regionally focused presentation of 322 infrastructure construction projects...

Africa’s extractive industries came under scrutiny yet again when representatives from governments, civic society, academia and the private sector gathered at the New York...

Somalia’s remittance industry and the millions of Somalis it serves are awaiting word from Britain’s high court, where a judge is expected at any...

The world seems to be fascinated by African culture and design. So why isn’t the fashion industry on the continent blowing Paris out of...