The Africa Report — July-August 2017

O utside a commu- nity centre just south of Nairobi, groups of young Kenyans gather around speakers blasting Bongo musicastheych ...

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there will be 500 million internet users in Africa by 2020. The race is on to capture as many of these new users as possi- ble. ...

It will also lay thousands of kilo- metres of fibre-optic cable and form partnerships with telecoms companiestohelpdrivedownthe ...

O n the morning of 20 June the rumours were final- ly confirmed by a letter from the Etisalat Group of the United Arab Emirates, ...

SUNDAY ALAMBA/AP/SIPA As the landscape continued to shift under technological and operationalpressures,Etisalatap- proached a co ...

S enegal is the latest coun- try to join Africa’s league of oil prospectors. Since 2014, international companies have made score ...

Similar gas projects in Angola and Nigeria experienced several delays. Finding international markets for the resource is an- oth ...

that the socio-environ- mental impacts of hydrocarbons explorationdonotthreatenfishing, which is currently the country’s leading ...

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L ess than seven years after launching her company in Ghana, NanaAma Botchway- Dowuona has earned her stripes as a leading lawye ...

David Munro The new CEO of insurance company Liberty Holdings, David Munro, arrives atthe insurer from Standard Bank. That leave ...

W hen president of the African Development Bank(AfDB)Akinwumi Adesina hits his stride, he has something of the preacher’s orator ...

Certainly, there are a host of Indian businesses with tropical agriculture expertise to sell, from post-harvest treatments for f ...

I n recent years Transnet has portrayed itself as the back- bone of South Africa’s infra- structuredevelopment.Largely unfettere ...

R17bn of borrowings, secured R16.9bn of committed facilities with financial institutions and raised R11.8bn without govern- ment ...

Is Transnet still on track? (results year to 31 March 2016) R340bn Transnet expects to spend at least this much over the next 10 ...

INTERPOLis the world’s largest international police organization, with 190 Member Countries. Created in 1923, it facilitates cro ...

TAR: Developers in Africa – who can take an infrastructure project from concept to financial close and through the build stage – ...

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