July 2018

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African Private Sector calls for WTO reform
Africa's private sector slammed the World Trade Organisation for unfair trading terms for African countries in a statement issued on the sidelines of the PAFTRAC Virtual Summit on Thursday. "It is widely agreed that the current global trading system works in a constraining fashion for Africa, penalising the continent in terms of its growth and development," the statement read. An extensive surve
Shoshana Kedem • SepSeptember 11^th, 2020
Addressing the access-to-energy challenge in Nigeria
In sub-Saharan Africa, lack of access to reliable energy is one of the most pressing social and economic development issues and is a significant contributor to the abysmal outcomes in health, nutrition, food security, education, security, business competitiveness, and employment. The problem is particularly acute in Nigeria, which has an estimated energy gap in the range of 30 GW to 175 GW, a gap
JulJuly 2^nd, 2018

AfCFTA launches – now Africa must make it succeed
Few intergovernmental projects are as ambitious as unifying 54 countries with a combined population of 1.2bn to create the world’s largest free trade area. Yet the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) has proved successful in rallying all of the African Union member states, except Eritrea, to sign the landmark accord. As of January 2021, 35 of the 54 signatories have ratified the agre
Finbarr Toesland • FebFebruary 18^th, 2021
South African companies make waves in technology
The announcement by global pharmaceutical giant Johnson and Johnson (J&J) that it would partner with Durban-based drug maker Aspen to produce Covid-19 vaccines in November is testament to South Africa’s growing technological capabilities.Africa’s largest pharmaceutical company has the capacity to produce 300m doses a year at its plant in Port Elizabeth where production should begin in April,
Tom Collins • FebFebruary 10^th, 2021

Taking African agriculture to the next level
Nuradin Osman, a Somali entrepreneur who knows first-hand what famine means, is determined to accelerate a new era in African agriculture, offering profitable agribusiness investment and solutions to address existing gaps in African agriculture and eradicating extreme poverty across the continent. He spoke to African Business about his new ventures How can a breakthrough in African agriculture ch
AugAugust 14^th, 2020
Kenya’s tourism sector to focus on domestic market despite lift on international travel ban
Kenya's tourism industry – once largely sustained by international visitors – is repositioning itself to appeal to the domestic marketplace in the face of Covid-19. Tom Collins reports. At a time when hundreds of thousands of tourists would be making their way to Kenya to witness the famed wildebeest migration in the Maasai Mara, the national reserve is relatively quiet this year as Covid-19 put
AugAugust 4^th, 2020