The Value Of Dual Citizenship For African’s Wishing To Take Advantage Of Opportunities
The Value of Dual Citizenship for African’s Wishing to Take Advantage of Opportunities within the Continent and Abroad. It is estimated that only around 1% of the world’s population have two or more passports, making dual citizenship an exclusive privilege. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 5 October 2015/ “No man is an island” is the theme of […]
Africa Tourism Set For Sustained Growth
The hotel and tourism industry in Africa is beginning a period of sustained growth, according to the sector’s leading experts gathered at the Africa Hotel Investment Forum in Addis Ababa. The hotel and tourism industry in Africa is beginning a period of sustained growth, according to the sector’s leading experts gathered at the Africa Hotel […]
Africa’s Governance Winners, Losers And Surprises
Zimbabwe is one of the African countries where governance has improved most in the four years up to 2014. Senegal just might surge ahead of its African counterparts in the future, to become one of the continent’s powerhouses. Developments in Somalia, long the worst-governed country in Africa, can be described as “a good news story”. […]
Extreme Poverty ‘To Fall Below 10%’: World Bank
The World Bank has said that for the first time less than 10% of the world’s population will be living in extreme poverty by the end of 2015. The bank said it was using a new income figure of $1.90 per day to define extreme poverty, up from $1.25. It forecasts the proportion of the […]
Africa Looks West Once Again: China’s Slowing Economy Is Making The US A More Attractive Investor
For the first time in more than 15 years, Zimbabwe’s 91-year-old president, Robert Mugabe, openly asked for western re-engagement in his ‘state of the nation’ address in August. A decade ago, Mugabe told a packed rally at the Chinese-built national sports stadium in Harare: ‘We have turned east, where the sun rises, and given our […]
Africans Lead With The Highest Academic Achievements In The US Beating Asians
Africans have the highest educational attainment rates of any immigrant group in the United States with higher levels of completion than the stereotyped Asian American model minority. It is not only the first generation that does well, as estimates indicate that a highly disproportionate percentage of black students at elite universities are African or the […]
The Top 10 Fastest Growing Economies In Africa, Number 1 Will Surprise You
Africa is preparing to take its place in a future global economy which will see the earth’s population reach 10 billion by 2050. As people are saying, Africa is where the ball is bouncing right now. The continent is currently experiencing an average economic growth of between 5 to 8% a year. It’s the youngest […]
Africa Metro: Sub-Saharan Africa Gets Its First Metro
GETTING around African cities is famously stressful. Whether in Nairobi, Lagos or Johannesburg most journeys involve negotiating roads clogged with honking cars and choked with fumes.This is also true of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s fast-growing capital. But it is now possible to make at least some journeys there without braving the hectic streets. On September 21st, […]
Ethiopia, Israel to Engage in Agriculture Sector
This annual trade event has positive effect on extending mutual cooperation between the two, and in creating opportunity to bring Israeli technologies and best practices to the Ethiopian agriculture sector. An Israeli agro-business delegation consisting of 15 agri companies have arrived in Addis in a bid to establish network and partnership with their counterparts. Opening […]
AU Hails China’s Strategic Partnership for Peace in Africa
The African Union (AU) has appreciated China’s strategic partnership for peace in Africa. AU Commissioner for Peace and Security Smail Chergui and head of China’s Permanent Mission to AU Kuang Weilin on Monday signed a grant agreement at AU Headquarters in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, which sees China donating 1.2 million U.S. dollars to support […]
