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Africa Attracts Increased Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Despite Growing Insecurity – Report

Emerging economies continuously need Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) for sustainable growth and development, with governments having recognized the importance of flow of financial capital in economies of countries, now making.

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Investing In Africa: According to Abraaj Group

The Abraaj Group has invested $2.2billion in Africa to date. And they are just getting started. In late January 2014, at the most recent World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting.

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US – Africa Investment Forum Dinner, Houston Texas

As more African companies confirm participation, we are excited inviting you to attend the US-Africa Investment Forum Dinner 2014 with the theme: “Innovation, Growth and Competitiveness in the new frontier” billed.

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Money Transfer: Are Africans getting ripped off?

Africans in the Diaspora are charged twice the global average in taxes to send money to relatives back home, a recent study has revealed. Africans face the highest remittance fees.

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Elections In Africa: Top 5 Predictions For 2014

The 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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Meet Kase Lawal: Nigerian-Born Oil Baron Who Controls 6 Oil Blocs In Kenya

Kase Lawal, an Ibadan- born businessman, who has accomplished what many United States of America (USA) citizens can only fantasise. A typical Nigerian achiever, who can easily be described as.

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10 Features Of Nigeria’s Richest Individuals

Nigeria is known to house one of the largest pools of wealthy individuals in Africa, amassing fortunes in excess of a million dollars. These fortunes are sourced from the usual suspects including.

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Cash confusion: The country where shoppers can pay with eight different currencies

Zimbabwe’s multi-currency confusion and hyper-inflation, Zimbabwe must be the only place in the world to have eight currencies as legal tender – none of them its own. For the last.

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Viewpoints on Nigeria at 100: Is A time to celebrate?

SOURCE: BBC AFRICA Nigeria is marking a century of its existence following the amalgamation of the mainly Muslim north and Christian and animist south under British colonial rule in 1914..

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Quotes From Top African Entrepreneurs On Business, Passion And Life

Power and drive are two things business leaders seem to have in common. Across the globe, entrepreneurs and business leaders are marked by their enviable managerial skills and intellectual capacity..

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