Ready For Vacation? Here’s How To Get Your Pets Ready Too
Whether you’re heading down to the coast, taking a bush break or staying at home, here are a few ways you can get your pets prepped for the holiday season The countdown to the festive season has begun, and this year, many more families will be going on holiday compared to last Christmas. That means […]
Deepening Digitisation And The Future Of Banking In Africa
Crosby Mkhwanazi, Group Head of Transactional Products and Services at Standard Bank Group Digital acceleration is transforming the banking sector globally and Africa is no exception. Technological advancements are increasingly shaping how financial products are distributed, how clients are served, and how underlying financial infrastructures are scaled. Moreover, digitisation has sparked a marked adjustment in […]
Ratings Agency S&P Global Opted to Stay Mum on SA’s Credit Rating
South Africa has a long way to go to convince ratings agencies of its growth and reform agenda, after all three agencies downgraded it during 2020. S&P was scheduled to release a ratings review of the country on 19 Nov, though it is not obliged to issue a report if ratings factors are deemed to […]
One Way to Understand the State of Uganda’s Economy is to Ask its Informal Workers
For the harried workers of Uganda’s informal economy, life is already tough enough. This might not be an economy in crisis, but millions of people face a daily struggle just to make ends meet. They testify to an economic model that has not brought industrialisation or created enough jobs.In the first decades of President Yoweri […]
There Will Be No Escaping Ghana’s New Levy on Electronic Transactions
Ghana’s finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta has announced that the government intends to introduce an electronic transaction levy (e-levy) in the 2022 budget. He said this was to “widen the tax net and rope in the informal sector”. The proposed levy, which will come into effect on 1 February 2022, is a charge of 1.75% of […]
Winds of Change are Sweeping across African Medical Tourism
The number of Africa’s own regional medical tourism destinations is also seen rising beyond South Africa, Morocco, Egypt, and Tunisia—which currently have the most advanced medical facilities on the continent—according to Research and Market’s Medical tourism 2022: Africa potential. Algeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Tanzania are newly-listed markets with the potential […]
Nigeria and US Talk Economy, Democracy and Policy
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Nigeria as part of his three-nation tour in Africa. During his meetings with President Muhammadu Buhari and other top government officials in Abuja, he will be sending a strong message to China, its long-standing rival in the continent, that Africa’s largest democracy and economy remains its key […]
Congo Hold-up Exposes how Private Interests Captured and Abused DRC’s Resources
The largest leak of financial documents from Africa shows how a private bank in the Democratic Republic of Congo was used to channel at least $138 million of public funds to former President Joseph Kabila’s family and associates. The Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa, a Paris-based anti-corruption group known as Pplaaf, and France’s Mediapart […]
