Latest in Tag: africa Highlight
Latest in Tag: africa

Africa must be new export destination: study
Egypt one of largest producers, consumers of pharmaceuticals in both Middle East, Africa

CBE’s governor calls for recovery of Africa’ smuggled funds
Amer, Lagarde co-chaired African Consultative Group meeting in Bali

WB to invest $45bn in Africa over next three years
Egypt presents a memorandum to WB, IMF with African Caucus demands, says MIIC

Can Africa develop on green power?
Power shortages are stalling African development. Private sector green power providers say renewables could close the energy gap – but better market conditions are essential.It’s one thing when the power fails for an hour, but quite another when homes are regularly left in the dark for a day or more, and industry shuts down because …

85% of payments still cash, mostly in Africa: economist, former governor of Reserve Bank of India
SMEs are ideal for technology, and innovative financial solutions

Afreximbank directs $150m for factoring activities in Africa until 2021
Awani noted that the bank is based on several pillars in promoting factoring in the continent, first is financial intervention through providing lines of credit and also guarantees

Is Africa becoming the world’s dumping ground for dirty diesel vehicles?
As emission regulations become stronger for new vehicles in industrialized countries, cars as old as 25 years no longer able to meet emission standards are being exported to Africa. Air quality is suffering as a result.Any child playing at the Uhuru garden — a recreation park in the middle of the Kenyan capital Nairobi — …

Indian PM: our African partnership includes implementation of 180 credit lines worth about $11bn
Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, said that his country’s development partnership with Africa currently includes implementation of 180 Lines of Credit worth about $11bn in over 40 African countries. “At the last India Africa Forum Summit, we had committed a concessional Line of Credit of $10bn, and $600mn in grant assistance,” said Modi on Wednesday …

Communication between TE, Liquid Telecom opportunity to reveal investment in Africa
Telecom Egypt (TE) has signed an agreement with Liquid Telecom from South Africa to continue building “The One Africa” fibre optic network, which would pass through South, Central, and Eastern Africa. He considered it an opportunity for TE to penetrate Africa and discover new investment opportunities. Khaled Negm, the former minister of communications and information …

Cairo tops Africa’s cities in terms of FDI attraction in UN-Habitat report
Egypt’s capital Cairo held the first place in Africa in terms of volume of foreign direct investments (FDI) attracted, followed by South Africa’s Johannesburg in second place, then Morocco’s Tangier in third, Nigeria’s Lagos as fourth, and Morocco’s Casablanca ranked as fifth, according to the latest report issued by United Nations Human Settlements Programme, (UN-Habitat). …

Working with insects in Africa
The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology in Kenya was founded in 1970 and aims to improve the lives and health of people in tropical Africa by focusing on harmful and useful arthropods.We recently met with Dr. Sunday Ekesi from the center to discus their sustainability push throughout tropical Africa. The institute’s work is …

Oldest dated Homo sapiens fossil outside of Africa, Levant unearthed in Saudi Arabia
Uncovered fossilised finger dates to 85,000 years ago, when desert was lush grassland humans were able to colonise

Attijariwafa Bank signs MoU with Expolink to raise Egyptian exports to Africa
Group aims to establish joint ventures between Moroccan, Egyptian investors, explore joint investment opportunities in countries it is located in

Experts, artists, academics at Luxor African Film Festival assert culture’s importance to development
Cultural development should get same attention as militaries, economies in Africa, says festival president Sayed Fouad

Shoukry starts African tour on Monday with South Sudan, Kenya
Abbas meets Sudanese officials to boost security cooperation

Chinese investments across the world
Overseas Chinese investment allows China to enhance its own economy, increase its influence abroad

Op-ed review: criticising BBC, Turkish tour of Africa
Some writers dedicated their op-eds to follow into the footsteps of recent escalation by Egypt’s State Information Service against the BBC network over a report on detention, torture, and enforced disappearances. Al-Youm Al-Sabea Managing Editor Akram Al-Qasas believed that reporters did not make attempts to complete the story by reaching for further sources. Moreover, he …

Supporting transport initial step to boosting Egyptian exports to Africa
We need an entity linking exporters with shipping lines, says Diab

Iran intervenes in Africa to besiege Arab countries: Diaa
Qatar acts as proxy for major powers to achieve its interests

Poor infrastructure curbs Africa’s inclusive growth: African Economic Outlook
Continent’s infrastructure needs estimated at $130–170bn annually

Remains of oldest human outside Africa discovered
This is an exciting discovery that confirms other suggestions of an earlier migration out of Africa; says researcher

Egypt to chair upcoming African Union Summit
Al-Sisi praises AU efforts on issue of institutional reformation

Op-ed review: Al-Sisi in Africa, presidential election
State media focused on President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s visit on Saturday to Addis Ababa to participate in the 30th Ordinary Session of the African Union Summit. Both leaders of the two main state-run dailies addressed the role of Egypt in Africa. In Al-Ahram, Abdel Mohsen Salama, chairperson of the newspaper and president of the Press …

Gulf Capital closes 3 new growth capital transactions in Egypt, Africa, Turkey
Fund will allocate $22m for oil, gas infrastructure in Egypt

Finding talent Africa’s main private sector challenge: Isaac Fokuo
SACE aims to see African companies penetrate African, Chinese markets in 5 years

Egypt exports to Africa $1.253bn in 2016, $1.043bn in imports
Exports include sugar, paper, gold, essential oils, plastics, imports include natural gas, tea, copper, coal, iron ore

Africa is an important place for Egypt to access: chairperson of Financial Regulatory Authority
African stock exchanges scored just 6 places in the latest competitiveness report

Farida Osman is Africa’s best athlete
Egyptian swimmer Farida Osman has won the award for “Best Athlete in Africa 2017” at the World Athletics Awards ceremony on the sidelines of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) in Prague, Czech Republic. “2017 has been a great year for me—especially the historic moment of winning Egypt’s first-ever medal at the FINA World …

Africa achieved only 1.7% economic growth in 2016: UN
The constant changes that struck the Egyptian economy throughout 2016 is only part of the bigger picture and the fluctuations that hit the entire African continent, according to the United Nation’s Economic Commission for Africa’s (ECA) “Economic Report on Africa 2017”. The report was further elaborated in a conference held at the United Nations Information …

Egypt seeks to strengthen economic relations with Africa in conjunction with Al-Sisi’s visit
The African market is one of the main markets we target with our strategy to enhance Egyptian exports, asserts Tarek Kabil