Africa urged to unlock greater value from growing trade with Asia
Africa must use its expanding trade and investment relationships with Asia to build stronger domestic industries, ...
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Africa50 CEO Urges Greater Use of Domestic Capital and Local Processing to Expand Investment
Africa needs to mobilise more domestic capital, develop investment-ready infrastructure projects and expand local processing of ...
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World Bank Warns Debt Interest Is Squeezing African Spending on Health and Education
Sub-Saharan African governments are facing growing pressure to balance public debt obligations against spending on healthcare, ...
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Saudi Arabia’s Vision Invest and AFC Commit US$300 Million to WIOCC’s African Digital Expansion
WIOCC Group, one of Africa’s major carrier-neutral digital infrastructure platforms, has secured a combined US$300 million ...
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AUDA NEPAD launches €500 million Africa Green Transition Fund
The African Union Development Agency, AUDA NEPAD, has launched the Africa Green Transition Public Private Partnership ...
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African infrastructure investor Tshepo Mahloele advances bid for FlySafair ownership
South African infrastructure investment firm Harith Aviation has moved a step closer to acquiring Safair Holdings, ...
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Dangote outlines $46 billion industrial expansion linking West and East Africa through twin refinery strategy
Aliko Dangote has outlined an ambitious industrial expansion programme that would establish one of Africa’s largest ...
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Ports are more than infrastructure: What Ghana’s Tema Port reveals about Africa’s development choices
Across Africa, ports have increasingly become symbols of economic ambition, industrial transformation and regional integration. Billions ...
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Egypt Set for US$5bn Scatec Green Energy Investment
Egypt’s ambitions to position itself as a leading renewable energy hub on the African continent received ...
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Botswana Positions Itself for Regional Power Trade Through US$100 Million Solar Investment
Botswana is poised to strengthen its role within Southern Africa’s evolving electricity market following the financial ...
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