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The Pandora Papers, the largest investigative effort yet to shed light on the world of offshore finance, show just how serious the challenge of illicit financial flows is for Africa. [...]

African countries lose more than $50bn per year in illicit financial outflows, according to a report released in February 2015 by an African Union taskforce headed by former South African [...]

Industrial Promotion Services (Tanzania) Ltd. (IPS(T)), an affiliate of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED), has committed T.Shs1.95bn on behalf of an AKFED-led consortium, to acquire and rehabilitate [...]

One of the major hindrances to Africa's efficient and rapid energy infrastructure development is that it often thinks too big. Africa is facing some serious questions about its performance in [...]

It has been argued time and time again, on the pages of this magazine as much as anywhere else, that Nigeria is crying out for improved infrastructural facilities. The power, [...]

At the stroke of a pen, the South African Council on Higher Education (CHE) has negated expensive MBA qualifications earned, or in the process of being learned, at business schools [...]

It took a while, but somebody has at last found a use for Zimbabwean currency. Using thousands of Z$25om banknotes, the opposition newspaper The Zimbabwean created anti-Mugabe billboards and posters [...]

CAPE TIMES EDITORIAL, SOUTH AFRICA 'America's interest in what happens in Africa has been greatly sharpened since September 11. American policy-makers have noted that weak, poverty-stricken states, with weak institutions, [...]

'Africa will suffer THE DAILY NEWS (HARARE) APRIL 3, 2003 BY TAJUDEEN ABDUL-RAHEEM Africa will suffer many direct and indirect consequences of the Anglo-American war on Iraq. One, the price [...]

The signing of the Lusaka cease-fire agreement by six African nations, including the DRC, on 10 July, promised a new era of peace and growth in this troubled country. But [...]

John Barton is not a man to rake kindly to negativity. The MD of paper manufacturing giant, Mondi Paper, and co-chairman of Durban Vision Initiative, carries red and yellow football [...]

In the quickening search for planet-saving green products, coffins are now available that are as bio-disposable as the people despatched in them. They also burn more easily and cleanly in [...]

Priscilla Ross reports on the South African paper giant Sappi's most adventurous move to date in its developing global strategy. By acquiring a huge chunk of the US based S [...]

Interview: Lord Jim O'Neill, chair, Northern Gritstone Jim O'Neill coined the acronym BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China) more than 20 years ago in a seminal paper he wrote while chief [...]

In 2023 weather-related natural disasters resulted in over 17,000 fatalities and affected 10m people in 29 African countries where data was available. This is according to a recent white paper [...]

Keeping information on paper is a habit that will take years to break. A start to transforming the world into a paper-less society is the CardScan, guaranteed by the manufacturers [...]

Panos of London, which specialises in environmental and developmental issues, has prefaced its briefing paper on a new desertification convention with these strong words: 'A word of warning: Do not [...]

In 2001, Jim O'Neill, chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, coined the acronym BRIC in a paper entitled Building Better Global Economic BRICs, which described a forthcoming shift of economic [...]

How did Nigeria avoid a banking crisis in the aftermath of the 2014 crude oil price crash? In mid-August, The Economist, a British newspaper, highlighted two recent papers by the [...]

In the wake of the Panama Papers, there is renewed sensitivity around the issue of tax avoidance. This includes closer scrutiny of tax incentive policies in major economies such as [...]

Ikenna Ozuola, a commercial motor driver based in Lagos, does not worry where he gets the third-party insurance papers for his vehicles. Ozuola, who has three commercial buses, understands that [...]

After answering the ringing phone at Acapulco Mexican Grill and Bar in the centre of Addis Ababa, owner Abel Wondowsen scribbles on a pad of paper an order for quesadillas [...]

For Britons accustomed to tuning into the nightly news or leafing through the daily papers, Afro-optimism has recently been in short supply. Images of Eritreans and Somalis, stranded in Calais [...]

When President Barack Obama finally put pen to paper on the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) in late June, producers across the continent --from Nigerian footwear makers to Lesotho [...]

Mid-February saw an interesting story hit the Sunday paper headlines. Three different, respected newspapers carried the information that South Africa had offered its neighbour, Zimbabwe, some bale-our finance to the [...]

When it comes to economics, Nigeria seems to live in a world of virtual reality. Everything works on paper but nothing does in real life Pini Jason reports. It has [...]

Emmanuelle Moors de Giorgio outlines the genesis of the Asian financial crisis and asks how Africa can avoid the sort of mistakes that turned the Asian tiger into a paper [...]

Korean and other South-East Asian women, contemplating their country's almost worthless paper money, must be sending up little prayers of thanks as they finger their diamond ear-rings. They are now [...]

On 30th September 2013, the Nigerian government formally presented certificates and legal papers to new owners of 15 state-owned power generation and distribution companies under the privatisation scheme. This opened [...]

In mid December 2012 a significant milestone of Kenya's industrialisation process was achieved when the Sessional Paper No. 10 of 2012 on Kenya Vision 2030 was passed by the Kenyan [...]

The notion has been around for 60 years. It was committed to paper 20 years ago, it gained full support from all players in 2008 and a draft resolution was [...]

The Botswana Telecommunications Corporation (BTC) has transformed itself from a musty, paper-bound bureaucracy to a streamlined, service-oriented technocracy with an eye firmly on the bottom line. The state is still [...]

When it comes to economics, Nigeria seems to live in a world of virtual reality. Everything works on paper but nothing does in real life. It has now become customary [...]

Emmanuelle Moors de Giorgio outlines the genesis of the Asian financial crisis and asks how Africa can avoid the sort of mistakes that turned the Asian tiger into a paper [...]

Forest covering 67,000 hectares in Swaziland is being sold by Sappi, the world's largest maker of glossy paper, to timber products provider Montigny Investments for $100m in cash. Usutu owns [...]

The Lesotho Highlands Water Project has huge advantages on paper. The construction of a succession of dams over several decades should raise much-needed income, while also increasing domestic power and [...]

Poverty rates in sub-Saharan Africa have been steadily declining over the last 10 years or so, according to a new World Bank paper. Setting a new poverty line of $1.25 [...]

Contours of Descent By Robert Pollin £9.99 Verso ISBN 1-84467-543-3 This book, the author tells us, began its incubation as a conference paper for the January 2000 Allied Social Science [...]

This year's lineup reflects a deep commitment to celebrating diverse voices, innovative practices, and meaningful cultural dialogues. Each project offers a unique perspective, weaving together themes of heritage, identity, and [...]

A shaggy-styled man with striking features stands in front of the camera at a mining conference in Cape Town, squeezing a dark rock in thp palms of his hands. 'We're [...]

At the 7th Afreximbank Compliance Forum in Dakar, African financial players shared their difficulties and solutions for implementing Financial Action Task Force Recommendation 16 on ultimate beneficial owners. By Celia [...]

EDITED ALUSINE JALLOH & TOVIN FALOLA University of Rochester Press (USA) ISBN 1-58046-114-X With the exception of five of the 22 contributions to this large volume of essays and papers, [...]

A discussion paper on increased black empowerment in SA's white-dominated mining sector has unleashed a storm of controversy. The cost in lost investment of fast-tracking black economic empowerment (BEE) in [...]

The European Union's green paper on the future relations with ACP states has been designed to provoke debate. It has already created considerable discussion within the EU itself and more [...]

Angola's new found peace remains paper thin. Despite earlier assurances to the contrary, Unita is making increasing demands, including the right to take over the country's diamond industry. Although the [...]

The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation has been the central mechanism for improving ties between China and the continent and could unveil new areas of collaboration when it reconvenes in September; [...]

The extent of the challenge facing African airlines can be grasped simply by finding a flight tracking website, and zooming-out to see a global view of aircraft movements in real-time. […]

Brazil's deep-rooted Afro-Brazilian history makes it a focal point for examining the global African diaspora, and this year's fair will highlight galleries representing Brazilian artists who reinterpret and celebrate their [...]