Africa

  • Mar 7, 2014
  • 11 min read

Prospects for Africa in the second quarter

The IMF predicts that sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) economies will grow 6.0% in 2014, compared to...

Africa
  • Feb 24, 2014
  • 5 min read

Private equity investments eye African SMEs

The outlook for private equity (PE) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in 2014 is promising. The...

Africa
  • Feb 24, 2014
  • 2 min read

'Western norms' continue to lose traction in Africa

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni today signed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill today, imposing...

Africa
  • Feb 19, 2014
  • 7 min read

US capacity for 'small wars' in East Africa will rise

The UN's Somalia and Eritrea Monitoring Group last week called for the full reinstatement of the...

Africa
  • Feb 19, 2014
  • 2 min read

Africa mobile phone market eyes broadband challenges

Ericsson estimates that Africa's mobile broadband services will remain dominated by 3G handsets,...

Africa
  • Feb 17, 2014
  • 6 min read

Africa growth has only modest effect on smallholders

The narrative underpinning sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) accelerated growth since 2000 has tended to...

Africa
  • Feb 17, 2014
  • 2 min read

Higher African GDP could mask external vulnerability

AfDB President Donald Kaberuka said yesterday that growth in SSA will reach 6.2% in 2014, up from...

Africa