Africa is Ripe for Investment
02/05/2014US has just announced that it has invited over 47 African leaders to Washington for a US-Africa Summit. The summit is going to focus on trade. It comes up as.
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10 Of Africa’s Longest-Serving Dictators
27/04/2014Of the world’s 30 longest-serving leaders – some would call them dictators – 14 are in Africa. Can you guess which ones make the top-10 list? 1. Teodoro Obiang Nguema.
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Dangote, Okonjo-Iweala And Other Africans Named Among Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People
27/04/2014The Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, along with the President, Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, were on Thursday named by Time Magazine among the world’s 100 most influential people for 2014..
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Meet media mogul Mo Abudu ‘Africa’s Oprah Winfrey’ and how she conquered a continent
22/04/2014With no TV experience whatsoever, Mo Abudu has become the “Oprah of Africa” — it’s impossible not to read an interview with the glamorous 49-year-old without the moniker cropping up..
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Ex-Im Bank Signs $100 Million Agreement with PTA Bank
14/04/2014Washington, DC – Fred P. Hochberg, chairman and president of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank), and Admassu Tadesse, president and chief executive of the Eastern and.
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Let’s empower young African artists – Angelique Kidjo
11/04/2014Africa must do more to protect and value its artists, says the star, who tells the story of her life in a new autobiography.Angélique Kidjo’s 11th international studio album, Eve,.
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Central African Republic ‘must not become another Rwanda’ – Ban Ki-moon
11/04/2014Ban Ki-moon says the UN team heard “harrowing tales” during his visit to CAR The Security Council has approved my proposal to deploy a United Nations peacekeeping mission to the.
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Elections In Africa: Top 5 Predictions For 2014
07/04/2014The political environment in a country is key to economic growth and development. Generally, if a country must thrive, political stability is a pertinent ingredient. The situation is the same.
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Nigeria Emerges Africa’s Largest Economy
07/04/2014Nigeria will today be declared Africa’s largest economy as a result of the rebasing of its economy. Sources close to the Ministry of Finance and the National Bureau of Statistics.
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Peggielene Bartels – The American secretary who became king in Otuam, Ghana: A woman’s journey to royalty
27/03/2014When Peggielene Bartels went to bed on a summer night in 2008, she was an ordinary administrative assistant living in a modest one-bedroom condo just outside Washington D.C. But a.
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