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Nairobi May 27 2024 African countries need to trade in value-added and intermediate goods with each other and the rest of the world in...

STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT CYRIL RAMAPHOSA ON FURTHER ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL MEASURES IN RESPONSE THE COVID-19 EPIDEMIC UNION BUILDINGS, TSHWANE 21 APRIL 2020 My Fellow South Africans, It is...

The world needs to produce 50% more food by 2050, and Africa can fill that need. This is the impetus behind the African Development...

In his address for the 14th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture, Bill Gates spoke under the broad theme of "living together". He touched on a...

India has age old ties to Africa. Under Narendra Modi, who visited Africa for the first time as prime minister recently, the fastest growing...

Guiding discussions at the 2016 World Economic Forum on Africa in Kigali, Rwanda, are five high-powered co-chairs: Akinwumi Ayodeji Adesina, Graca Machel, Dominic Barton, Tarek Sultan Al Essa and Tony O Elumelu.

Salukazi Dakile-Hlongwane has a passion for social upliftment and has spent her career developing Africa and its women. The company she helped to create, Nozala Investments, is a broad-based women’s investment firm that aims to ensure economic advancement for women.

Investment in infrastructure must be a priority for Africa if it is to achieve double-digit economic growth, Prof Jeffrey Sachs tells delegates at the Third Financing for Development Conference. They have gathered to set the new financing architecture for a new global partnership.

South Africa sees infrastructure development as a key job driver, alongside tourism, manufacturing, mining and beneficiation, the green and blue economies and agriculture. Its projects dovetail with the continental infrastructure programme.

Sere adds 100MW to the grid and will save nearly six million tons of greenhouse gas emissions over its 20-year lifespan. Each year, it will supply enough energy to power about 124 000 homes. Next on Eskom's renewables agenda is a concentrated solar power plant.