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Sam Matekane: From Herdboy to Airline Owner

He established Matekane Group of Companies in 1986 as Matekane Transport and Plant Hire. It evolved into a multi-sector corporation embodying aviation, property development, mining, logistics supply chain, hospitality, farming,.

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Boosting Intra-African Trade to Foster Economic Development

If a major lesson is to be drawn from the systemic financial crisis in the global economy today, it is the need for Africa to promote intra‐regional trade. Trade is.

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African Caucus wraps up meeting with adoption of Marrakesh Declaration

The 2022 meeting of the African Consultative Group of Finance Ministers & Central Bank Governors of the 54 African Member States of the World Bank and the IMF wrapped up.

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AU Launches Largest Continent-Wide Energy Trading Programme

The African Union (AU) has launched the African Single Electricity Market (AfSEM) which will one day become the world’s largest continent-wide energy trading programme. The initiative is meant to interconnect.

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SADC calls extraordinary summit to address Eswatini crisis

Eswatini’s King Mswati has finally agreed to attend the extraordinary summit of the security organ of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) on 21 July, after keeping the organisers guessing.

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Africa Needs to Pull from Dependency Syndrome – Pres. Weah

President George Weah has asked the International Development Association (IDA) to help pull Africa out of its current dependency syndrome as a means of scaling up policies that spur social.

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Ethiopian PM Vows to Defeat Insurgents Blamed for Killings

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has vowed to defeat the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), an insurgent group he is blaming for two massacres in the past three weeks. Addressing parliament.

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Africa’s IGAD Bloc Seeks Support to Feed Millions Amid Severe Drought

Members of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, a regional bloc that includes Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda, met Tuesday in Nairobi to discuss humanitarian, political,.

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