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South Africa’s laws and regulations aren’t clear about the role of the chair of a company. This carries huge risks for individuals and companies.
The number of young people in Kenya’s construction industry is growing.
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The Africa Youth Employment Clock is a new data tool which could be used to provide evidence-based policy interventions.
A gum arabic sap on an acacia tree in north Kordofan, Sudan.
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Sudan has been a key exporter of gum arabic for decades. Producers have warned fighting could wipe out stockpiles soon.
A banana market in Kitwa, Uganda. Most of Uganda’s economic activity is informal and untaxed.
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Uganda Revenue Authority has turned its focus on small traders and VAT law enforcement after the World Bank funding freeze.
South Africa has clearly defined mandates for the police, military and intelligence services.
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The security services that watch over South Africans today are a far cry from the instruments of minority rule of the apartheid era. They are subject to the constitution and the rule of law.
The upgraded Kudube pedestrian bridge in Hammanskraal, South Africa.
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Development finance addresses the failures or limitations of financial institutions such as commercial and investment banks.
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Kenya wants to keep the shilling’s value artificially high, but it will soon realise that foreign currency reserves, used for intervention, are not limitless
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Never before have four governments, including one of the regional leaders, Senegal, been simultaneously eager and ready to get out of the neo-colonial stranglehold of the CFA franc.
A staff member of a Kenyan car wash start-up.
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Significant numbers of young people remain unemployed or underemployed, despite being educated.
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Africa holds the world’s largest untapped digital growth potential.
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Meat from sheep that graze in South Africa’s Karoo and France’s Mont Saint-Michel lamb is deemed special.
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A well governed financial system is effectively supervised by the central bank.
Stupid actions can be caused by a defiance of logic or poverty of mind.
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Truly ignorant individuals lack introspection and stubbornly cling to their irrational opinions.
Kenya is one of the jurisdictions under increased monitoring for money laundering.
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Kenya must complete a national terrorist financing risk assessment and share it publicly.
Aluminium is an important global ingredient in industrial development.
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Ghana has spent over 60 years trying to build an aluminium industry.
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Identical informal businesses set up next to each other because they’ve created an informal welfare system.
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Almost 25% of all farmland previously owned by white landowners has been restored, redistributed to black South Africans, or moved away to state ownership.
Several economies are dependent on cocoa.
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Major African cocoa plants in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana have stopped or cut processing because they cannot afford to buy beans.
Nigeria’s labour groups stage a protest over economic hardship caused by the removal of the fuel subsidy in Lagos.
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Nigeria’s sudden and total removal of fuel subsidies was not the best strategy to use.
A field of dying maize plants in southern Malawi during 2016’s severe drought caused by El Nino.
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Approximately 22% of Malawians are food insecure, partly because of the poor maize harvest in 2023.
An anti-colonial demonstration against the CFA franc in Dakar, September 2017.
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Several conditions must be met to ensure the successful launch and operation of a multilateral currency.
Traders in Wuse, Abuja. Nigeria’s inflation is driven by soaring food costs and the fall of the country’s currency.
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Factors pushing inflation rates downwards in other parts of the world are achieving the exact opposite result in Nigeria.
Financial abuse persists when access to economic opportunities is controlled or limited by an intimate partner.
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When money is entangled with relationships, it can often become a tricky situation.
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The whole southern Africa region has taken strain and will see a significant reduction in the volume of the crop produced.
Customers buy groceries in a shopping centre in Mthatha, South Africa.
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Keeping an eye out for where you can boost your savings or reduce expenses when times are tough can improve your financial wellbeing.