Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, not all of the economic news in Africa has been negative. We continue to see promising developments...
NJ Ayuk 4 Nov 2020
Congratulations to the SME companies who have won full-page BizListing entries in Bizcommunity's business directory...
Bizcommunity.com 26 Oct 2020
The buzz and excitement around the continent's trade agreement, hailed as the answer to a fully integrated pan-African economy, has undoubtedly slowed its pace since the secretariat became operational in April 2020...
Zuneid Yousuf 15 Oct 2020
Africa's low level of economic diversification is a leading factor in the continent's economic fragility. Further, the Covid-19 pandemic has magnified the risks of countries' over-dependence on a single natural resource such as oil...
Njuguna Ndung'u 28 Sep 2020
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, investment opportunities still abound in Africa. Global markets are shifting to South Asia and Africa...
15 Sep 2020
Suzanne Morel, country manager for Mastercard SA, shares some insights into how Mastercard is giving power to women...
Evan-Lee Courie 17 Aug 2020
Africa has 38 coastal countries and six islands whose maritime industry is estimated to be worth $1trn per year. This figure will increase as they develop their offshore hydrocarbon, energy, tourism, maritime transport, shipping and fishing sectors...
Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood 12 Aug 2020
The Zimbabwean government recently signed an agreement to pay 4,500 white farmers $3.5bn for infrastructure improvements on the land expropriated by the government during the chaotic land reform programme of 1997/8...
Misheck Mutize 11 Aug 2020
Most economists see structural transformation as one of the main routes to Africa's sustainable development...
Muazu Ibrahim 3 Aug 2020
A debt service relief package has been approved by some of the world's biggest lenders for more than 25 African countries...
Misheck Mutize 30 Jul 2020
The remarkable economic transformation of Asia in recent decades has attracted global attention. It has ignited scholarly and policy debates about the region's development models and strategies...
Mills Soko 27 Jul 2020
Prior to the pandemic, Africa was identified as one of the fastest-growing consumer markets in the world, with household consumption growing even faster than GDP...
23 Jul 2020
The Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) was brokered by the African Union (AU) and adopted by 44 of its 55 member states on 21 March 2018. By February 2019, all AU countries, save for Eritrea, had become signatories to the AfCFTA, which came into force on 30 May 2019...
Robyn Berger, Theunis Claassen and Catherine Robson 30 Jun 2020
Covid-19 is increasingly wreaking havoc on the health of Nigerians, but its economic impact may well be more devastating...
Stephen Onyeiwu 25 Jun 2020
