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Dramatic rise of African consumer powerWhile Zimbabwe teeters on a knife edge with the refusal by President Robert Mugabe to resign by the 12 noon deadline today, Monday 20 November, after being recalled by his own party, ZaNU-PF, he may now face impeachment as President. Sunday night saw the speech in which he was expected to resign, beamed around the world via every major global television network. The tweets at #Mugabe were not pretty following on from that. But as always, when reporting on business-to-business news in Africa, there is good news and Africa is expected to have 310 million LTE subscriptions in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2023. The report from Ericsson also announced that mobile subscriptions in Sub-Saharan Africa are expected to grow by 6%, between 2017 and 2023, from 700 million mobile subscriptions in 2017 to 990 million subscriptions by 2023. The dramatic rise of African consumer power is also credited with driving development across the African continent - for example, Lagos and Kinshasa each added more than 4 million to their 'consumer classes' in the last decade. Cairo added another 3.5 million. Fourteen other African cities added at least a million consumers each - including Abidjan, Nairobi, and Yaoundé. Meeting the demands of these consumers requires new infrastructure investments across the continent. Of course it is not all good news and press freedom abuses were highlighted last week at the International Press Freedom Awards where Cameroon journalist Ahmed Abba, who is imprisoned, was honoured. To subscribe yourself or colleagues to the daily or weekly Africa newsletters which focus on media and marketing and general business news from the continent, click here.Have a great week! Louise Marsland
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|  | Leigh Andrews One of the highlights of WGSN's Futures Cape Town was an inspirational talk by 24-year-old Trevor Stuurman - in effortless digitally savvy youth fashion, this Christmas Day baby is an entrepreneur, photographer and multimedia visual artist with a verified Instagram account and over 156,000 Twitter followers - here's why his fresh ideas resonate so deeply.... read | |
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|  | African countries have a long road to travel to advance to the level of technological capacity common in the developed world... read | |  | 14 young female scientists were recognised at the 2017 edition of the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Sub-Saharan Africa ceremony... read | |  | Poultry farmers participating in the Poultry Show in Abeokuta were excited at the exhibition of water resistance paper egg trays which the manufacturer says is purely made of paper instead of plastic... read | |  | Acumen's first agricultural investments were focused on solutions that improved yields by providing quality inputs to the farmers. In the light of new challenges facing small farmers, it has evolved its strategy... read | |  | Climate-smart agriculture is one of the approaches to steer the needed transformation in the world's agriculture and food systems in ways that are both productive and sustainable... read | |  | Speaking at the Inyathelo Philanthropy Forum in Cape Town on Thursday, 9 November, Professor William Gumede, noted that we need to focus on resilience in order to survive and prosper in the current context of state failure and lack of trust in democratic institutions... read | |  | Simon Wilde Banking giant HSBC has pledged $100bn (£76bn) to "fight climate change", to be spent on sustainable finance and investment over the next eight years... read | |  | The failure of wealthy nations to deliver on short-term climate commitments could hinder the rollout of a landmark treaty... read | |  | Tom van Laer and Ross Gordon The latest UN Climate Change Conference since the 2015 Paris Agreement is taking place in Bonn between November 6-17 - and the world will be watching... read | |  | Andrea Freidus Volunteer tourism, or voluntourism, is an emerging trend of travel linked to "doing good". Yet these efforts to help people and the environment have come under heavy criticism... read | |  | Marriott International has further strengthened its presence in Kenya with the announcement of the opening of its second hotel, Four Points by Sheraton Nairobi Airport, overlooking the World's Wildlife Capital... read | |  | Satellite solution provider InterSat and ABS, a global satellite operator, announced the launch of iDirect platforms on ABS-3A C-band and Ku-band beams... read | |  | The annual Manufacturing Indaba has its sights set on expansion and growing its current offering to manufacturers both from South Africa and from the SADC region... read | |  | Hayward's Grand Safari Company has received The Safari Guild's Best in Africa Award for top mobile safari at the 11th The Safari Awards... read | |  | Unless sustainable, climate-smart ways of producing, transporting, processing and consuming food are adopted globally, emissions from agriculture sectors are set to increase, further contributing to climate change... read | |  | Kenyan Tourism Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala has joined the Mt. Kenya leg of the 7 Summits Africa Challenge, drawn to it by its driving ethos of promoting conservation through sustainable tourism in East Africa... read | |  | According to IATA CEO Alexandre de Juniac Africa has the greatest aviation potential, but it also faces great challenges... read | |  | French carmaker PSA signed a deal with three Algerian firms to set up a manufacturing base in the North African country with production to begin next year... read | |  | The growth of the hotel sector is an important indicator of how well a market is developing its travel infrastructure, and the indicators for West Africa are mixed... read | |  | Ashley Boag Technology enables African smallholder farmers to access better information, improve crop yields, secure better prices for their produce, and improve their livelihoods... read | |  | Kenya exported passion fruit in the 90s and early 2000s, however, due to pest management challenges, the country has seen a decline in the production of the highly profitable crop... read | |  | BICS will be providing its complete range of voice and data roaming services to Swazi Mobile, Swaziland's recently launched second mobile network... read | |  | Calestous Juma Africa has become a testing ground for technological leapfrogging... read | |  | A delegation from South Africa's Black Business Council recently held talks in Johannesburg with business leaders from Singapore and Malaysia on potential investment... read | |  | Leading technology and electric car companies have been accused of failing to ensure minerals used in their products are not mined using child labour... read | |  | Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa says South Africa is committed to its long-term vision of transitioning to an environmentally sustainable, climate change resilient, low-carbon economy and just society... read | |
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