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Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of a large medieval cathedral in the subterranean citadel of Old Dongola, once the ...
Imbalances in investment mean that action will be needed if the solar industry is to help meet the world’s climate change ...
The Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, has said that Africa’s future economic success depends on its ability to integrate the informal sector into the formal intra-African trade framework, ...
The Danish capital of Copenhagen was named the world's "most livable city," while North American cities overall ranked in the ...
Julia Khandoshko, CEO of Mind Money and a seasoned financial services executive, examines how the geopolitical instability of ...
Africa has over $4 trillion in domestic capital that can be mobilised to close ... AFC has launched a Digital Map of African Railways to support investor engagement and improve project ...
Moreover, Africa must invest urgently in coastal surveillance, maritime intelligence fusion centres, and naval command capacity. Maritime security is not simply about defending waters. It is about ...
Africa possesses over $165 billion in readily available domestic capital to drive continental development and reduce dependence on volatile external funding sources, participants in a session ...
But the decision on the location alone of the new airport to serve Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia ... it needed to get on with it, and quickly. And Africa as a whole needed to understand that ...
Africa-focused private capital fundraising has seen a significant surge, more than doubling to $4 billion in 2024 compared to the previous year. This notable increase reflects growing investor ...
According to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, local currency funding (or local currency bond markets) are integral to the development of broader capital markets.
In Africa, logistics startups like Sendy, Lori (also backed by Google), and KOBO360 took this approach, aggregating trucks and acting as intermediaries. However, this model has struggled, leading ...