The Business Opportunity in Adding Value to Small Farmers in Africa Nov 07, 2011 | Written by Lauri Elliott Food is essential for sustaining life, ...

Retailing Trends to Watch in Africa

Retailing Trends to Watch in Africa Oct 14, 2011 | Written by Editorial Staff Twenty key trends need to be factored into the planning models ...

Mobile Apps Market for International Travel

Mobile Apps Market for International Travel Oct 12, 2011 | Written by Editorial Staff International SOS recently conducted a survey to find out how technology ...

Hotel Development in Africa

Hotel Development in Africa Sep 28, 2011 | Written by Editorial Staff   “There’s a huge amount of interest in Africa at the moment in ...

GUINEA: Avoiding ethnically-driven elections

CONAKRY, 6 December 2011 (IRIN) – Politics remain ethnically divisive in Guinea a year after violent clashes marred a bitterly divided Presidential election. Analysts and ...

The Rise of African Indigenous Nations in Business and the Global Economy

The Rise of African Indigenous Nations in Business and the Global Economy Nov 13, 2011 | Written by Lauri Elliott When Europe scrambled for Africa ...

The Rise of New Wealth in Africa

The Rise of New Wealth in Africa Dec 04, 2011 | Written by Lauri Elliott As I completed this article, the Economist wrote a story ...

Analysis: What will follow Boko Haram?

  MAIDUGURI, 24 November 2011 (IRIN) – Across the road from Maiduguri railway station, in the corner of a now abandoned property, a leafy neem ...

COTE D’IVOIRE: Cocoa farmers hope reforms will pay off

ABIDJAN, 21 November 2011 (IRIN) – Income for cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire is expected to rise after reforms announced by President Alassane Ouattara’s government ...

AFRICA: Urgent drive to act on road safety

ADDIS ABABA, 18 November 2011 (IRIN) – Increasing traffic accident deaths are a likely consequence of economic and population growth in Africa unless leaders on ...

BURKINA FASO: “Blue revolution” needed to boost dry-season harvest

  OUAGADOUGOU, 17 November 2011 (IRIN) – The Burkina Faso government is attempting for the first time to implement a nationwide dry-season agricultural campaign to ...

AFRICA: Sub-Saharan sanitation targets “two centuries away”

LONDON, 18 November 2011 (IRIN) – It will take two centuries for sub-Saharan Africa to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to reduce by half ...