Regional integration as a tool for African wealth creation

By Khaled Sherif, vice-president: regional development, integration and business delivery at the African Development Bank The Covid-19 pandemic and its health and economic impacts has forced a global rethink of the current multilateral framework and what it means for...

The future of payments in Africa

By 2050 the population of Africa is expected to grow to 2 billion, while the rest of the world experiences flat or declining population curves. By Murray Gardiner, MD of Bluecode Africa Globally, about 1,7-billion adults (31% of adults) remain unbanked — without...

Workonline grows West African footprint

Workonline Communications, a pan-African provider of IP transit, has selected PAIX’s carrier- and cloud-neutral data centre in Accra, Ghana to deploy its first point of presence (POP) in West Africa. The PAIX Accra (ACC-1) data centre (initially founded as...

Harvard course focuses on scalable business in Africa

Africa has complex and unique business opportunities. Harvard Business School professors are launching a new online course to teach entrepreneurs how to build scalable businesses designed to solve core problems in Africa. The business course focuses on identifying...

Driving efficiency through gas-generated energy

Industries require reliable energy to operate optimally. When energy supplies are unreliable, it can interrupt manufacturing processes which ultimately leads to a loss in revenue. Organisations are therefore increasingly looking at spreading their risk and...

In West Africa, harnessing the youth workforce could speed recovery

West Africa’s burgeoning youth population offers a strategic workforce which can be harnessed for employment and economic growth, despite a Covid-19 pandemic that is devastating the continent and global economies, the African Development Bank said in its...