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ONE of the noticeable things across Africa these days is how many people have cell phones—71 percent of adults in Nigeria, for example, 62 percent in Botswana, and more than half the population in Ghana and Kenya, according to a 2011 Gallup poll.
Cell phone use has grown faster in Africa than in any other region of the world since 2003, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and D
The World Bank forecast on Thursday that Kenya's economy will grow by between 5.3-6.0 percent anually over the next two years and raised its projection for 2010 by almost a full percentage point to 4.9 percent.
A strong performance in the agriculture and manufacturing sectors, higher public investment in infrastructure and rising confidence since the adoption of a new constitution will underpi
Kenya and South Africa signed agreements on Friday aimed at improving commercial relations between the two regional economic powerhouses before a planned visit by President Jacob Zuma next year.
The deals were sealed during a visit by South African Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe to east Africa's biggest economy. He said his trip was to create a better environment for businessmen to trade f
The World Bank is planning to coordinate funding for 30 gigawatts (GW) of new power generation in Africa over the next five years, a senior official said on Monday.
"We are not going to finance everything ourselves, but how we can help leverage financing for that 30 gigawatts of additional capacity," Reynold Duncan, the bank's Africa energy specialist, told reporters on the sidelines of power
Rich countries need to change the way they deal with Africa, shifting from aid to trade if they are not to lose ground to the emerging economic players of Asia and South America, a top think-tank said on Wednesday.
In a report analysing Africa's small but evolving clout, the Royal Institute of International Affairs at London's Chatham House challenged the Western perception of Africa as a hope
The World Bank has approved a $330 million loan for Kenya to expand its national grid and support its emerging geothermal power generation.
East Africa's largest economy relies on hydropower to generate about 65 per cent of its electricity but it is prone to power shortages and cuts, which were exacerbated last year when a drought dangerously lowered the nation's dam water levels.
"The supp
Despite some of the lowest Internet penetration rates in the world, Africa has enticed Google Inc. Lured by the continent’s growth potential, Google aims to convince entrepreneurs, students and aid workers to make use of its search, mapping and mobile-phone technologies. But Africa — with roughly one billion inhabitants, over 50 countries and many regions that have limited access to electricity —
Economies are growing, émigrés returning and attitudes towards corruption beginning to change. Jonathan Dimbleby reports on a continent in transition .
One is a successful fashion designer, a second runs a commodity exchange, a third owns an international call centre, and a fourth runs a farm of 25,000 acres. All of them have lived, worked or studied in Europe and America, and all have abjured
Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world. Yet in recent years it managed to improve food security even as the world was going through a food crisis. UN Radio's Derrick Mbatha was there two years ago to find out how this was accomplished.
Mobile phone service provider Safaricom has announced record pretax profits of Sh20.9bn.
The company's pretax profits rose to 37pc while its subscribers' base hit 15.7 million marked by a 27pc growth rate.
Safaricom said that the greatest growth opportunities lay in data services.
