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The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) market has been a long time coming, but several African nations and major companies have finally started shipping goods and trading a trickle of goods under the AfCFTA agreement signed in 2018. Tanzania is one of the African countries that have decided to take part in a new […]
Global attitudes toward China and Russia have shifted since the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, but African countries’ discontent with the West has not translated into a desire for Beijing or Moscow to wield greater influence over the international order, the annual report of the Munich Security Conference has found. Critics have accused African governments of […]
Africa’s gas share in the global market will increase from 6% of all gas supplies in 2021 to over 11% by 2050, according to a report by Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF). Gas production in the continent is forecast to increase from 260bn cubic meters in 2021, to 585bn cubic meters in 2050, on the […]
A number of African countries have surged in global rankings that gauge internet speeds at telcos and internet service providers, according to the Speedtest Global Index of median mobile internet download speeds by Ookla, a global network intelligence and connectivity research firm. As investments into network infrastructure and deployment on the continent intensify, by the […]
African countries should accelerate inclusive recovery efforts to boost economic growth to eliminate the impact of the shocks caused by Covid-19, the war in Ukraine and climate change, all of which have pushed more people into extreme poverty and have increased inequality worldwide, according to Antonio Pedro, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic […]
China-Africa digital services hub focused on facilitating trade established in Hunan China’s Hunan province has unveiled a China-Africa Digital Services Hub that focuses on cross-border communications support and data-sharing between Chinese companies working in Africa. The China-Africa economic and trade digitalization service based in Changsha, the provincial capital, aims to support Chinese companies’ trade with […]
Foreign ministers from three west African nations ruled by military regimes — namely Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso — all of whom came to power following coups, met in Burkinabé capital Ouagadougou on Thursday, February 9 on the heels of a trip to the region by Russian envoy Sergei Lavrov. The meeting comes only days […]
Sudanese capital of Khartoum has seen a flurry of high-level diplomatic activity, with visits of Russia’s top diplomat and envoys from the United States and Europe, in what has been dubbed as “a new scramble for Africa” by the Kremlin and its Western opponents Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s visit to Khartoum (8-9 February) — […]
Africa holds the key to global food security because it has 60% of the world’s unused arable land, chairman and CEO of Morocco’s OCP Group, Mostafa Terrab, told the Financial Times. The Financial Times pointed out in its Wednesday issue that in the wake of the war in Ukraine and amid fears about the continent’s […]
The lack of employment more than religious belief is what is driving people to join fast-growing extremist groups in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a report by the UN Development Program (UNDP) based on interviews with hundreds of former fighters across East, West and the Horn of Africa. The new UNDP report’s findings thus challenge traditional […]