The United Nations Foundation has announced that Ashish J. Thakkar, Founder of Mara Group and Mara Foundation, will serve as Chair of the UN Foundation’s Global Entrepreneurs Council (GEC). As.
Mike Adenuga, Nigerian billionaire and owner of one of Africa’s largest telecommunications, may be close to extending his telecom business to Ivory Coast as the government of the Francophone African.
Being a successful woman in a male-dominated sector is hard enough, but Diezani Alison-Madueke endured almost epic underdog status as Nigeria’s oil minister. She was accused of mismanagement, corruption, and.
U.S. President Barack Obama will travel to Ethiopia next month, becoming the first sitting American leader to visit the African country and the headquarters of the African Union. The White.
The gold sector wage negotiations have taken centre stage in mining circles this week, detracting attention from the upcoming coal sector talks scheduled to start on July 2. According to this.
Banjul – Gambia’s hardline president, Yahya Jammeh dismissed two judges in the Supreme Court after criticising the court’s move to commute several death sentences to life sentences in prison, a.
As a frontier market, the countries of Africa represent both tremendous opportunities and tremendous risks. On the risk side of the ledger are all the usual complications of international trade.
People in the Tunisian resort town of Sousse have held a march to denounce the attack in which at least 38 people, most of them tourists, were killed by a.
African innovation is not yet getting the level of global recognition and support it truly deserves. The continent is brimming with a rising new generation of bold, creative-thinking innovators and.
Africa’s richest woman Isabel dos Santos has reportedly completed the acquisition of a 65% stake in Efacec Power Solutions after signing a sale contract for more than $220 million. Santos,.
