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Rates of urbanization in Africa are the highest in the world. Nigeria, for example, will be one of the world’s five largest markets for...

A roundup of business, trade and economic developments. Topics in this column: * EAC-EU reach trade agreement * EAC-Japan economic collaboration * Paying taxes via mobile money...

Trade – EAC/EU  Five East African countries — Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi — reached agreement with the European Union to renew a...

The complaint is all too common: In Africa, well performing small and medium-size businesses cannot obtain credit from commercial lenders in order to expand...

Fin4Ag is an annual conference that brings together farmers, financiers, central bank governors, ICT entrepreneurs from African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries and elsewhere...

Ethiopia’s Toll Road Ethiopia’s first toll road, the Addis Ababa-Adama expressway, opened for traffic on September 14, cutting the travel time from the capital city...

The Ebola epidemic in West Africa could reverse years of economic gains in the region. Thousands of lives been lost since January 2014, closed...

African tourism officials and tour operators are hoping that the number of tourist arrivals in Africa will continue to grow, despite fears over an...

The Africa-America Institute (AAI), a U.S.-based international education and policy organization dedicated to strengthening the human capacity of Africans, will host its 30th Annual...