A Growing List of Africans Buying Up Second Passports from Caribbean Nations
With a growing number of Western Countries including the US, UK and the European Union tightening their immigration and visa polices, citizens of African countries are finding it harder to travel abroad. Given the odds, global residence and citizenship advisory firms like Henley & Partners and CS Global Partners are seeing a surge of wealthy […]
Kampala Edges Closer to Building Pipeline
Uganda approved an environmental-impact assessment for a planned oil pipeline, bringing closer the start of its construction. The National Environment Management Authority issued an approval certificate to Total East Africa Midstream B.V. for the project. The clearance is for the Ugandan section of the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline, which is about 296 kilometers of […]
Lawyers Nabbed for Somali Fraud
A lawyer in Maryland, US, has been indicted for his alleged role in a scheme to fraudulently obtain control of more than $12.5m held by financial institutions on behalf of the Somali government. Jeremy Schulman, 47, was charged in an indictment filed in the District of Maryland, according to a press statement from the US […]
A Spat between West Africa’s Top Cocoa Producers and Big Chocolate Companies Intensifies
This week cocoa farmers in Ivory Coast threatened to stop their activities for “one to two years” in the latest escalation of a row between West Africa’s cocoa producers and large chocolate companies. More than 500 farming industry representatives met in the Ivorian capital Yamoussoukro to discuss taking action against chocolate giants Hershey and Mars, […]
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Named ‘2020 African of the Year’
About 17 years ago, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala challenged Nigeria’s patriarchy by becoming the longest-serving finance minister, the first foreign minister, and most importantly, the first woman to ever hold those positions. Today, she is on the brink of yet another first, as a finalist to the top post as the seventh Director-General of the World […]
Pura Soda To Give Away Shares In The Company
Better-for-you soft drink has set its sights on being next US $1 billion business Pura Soda, the better-for-you soft drink, has announced that it is giving away the chance to own shares in the company. Anyone buying a PURA Soda over summer season will be entered into a draw to win shares worth 0.01% of […]
World AIDS Day: How South Africa Is Fighting Back
The world’s attention in the past year has been focused overwhelmingly on COVID-19, but as we commemorate World AIDS Day on 1 December, it’s a stark reminder that there are other pandemics affecting millions of people around the world. HIV statistics from UNAIDS reveal that 38 million people globally were living with HIV at the […]
Redesigning Urban Markets Post-Covid
Across Africa, even in cities with relatively modern infrastructure, many shoppers prefer the informal markets. In our case, both our mothers preferred the fresh produce sold at informal markets by women from the rural areas. Thus, in cities as far apart as Nairobi and Abidjan, our mothers took us to buy fruits and vegetables sold […]
An Economy On The Edge
Three years ago, the World Bank placed Ethiopia as the second-fastest developing economy. Socio-economic progress is making a positive push, from an inward-focused country advertising a ‘not open for business’ mindset, to centre-stage. Infrastructure development plans are in place and gradual change coming with a few multi-nationals already managing to invest and a largely un-skilled […]
AIMS To Host Its First Online Next Einstein Forum Global Gathering
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) will host the first-ever virtual edition of the Next Einstein Forum Global Gathering (NEF-GG), Africa’s largest scientific gathering from 8-10 December 2020. Organized against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, under the theme “Building Africa’s resilience through education, research and innovation”, this year’s event will take place through the Airmeet video conferencing platform. […]
